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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Hiba Abu Nada, RIP

2023-10-28 Thread Florence Devouard

Oh gosh. What a relief !!!

Flo

PS: now, let's take time together when the war is over !

Le 28/10/2023 à 21:27, Butch Bustria a écrit :

Oh my apologies for mixing the names since both are from Gaza.

I hope the Nada we got in touch in Singapore would be in good hands
and safe while the Nada the subject of this email exchange we join in
prayer may she be at peace and we console with her bereaved family and
friends.

Kind regards,

Butch

On Sun, Oct 29, 2023, 1:02 AM Mrb Rafi wrote:

My heart goes with Hiba, and her family, and every child, and
every adult who lost their lives in this war. May the almighty
Allah grant them the highest prestigious place in the heaven. Aamin.

And responding to Butch and Aaqib, Hiba Abu Nada is a different
person than Nada Al Farra. We are in regular contact since we are
working together in a lot of wikimedia projects. I last talked to
Nada just a few days ago and she and her family were safe till then.
I'm trying to get in touch with her now after last night's s
communication cut down.

I take pride in being a close colleague of Nada Al Farra as she is
working as a doctor in that region with a very little supply.

I pray for everyone who are going through this nightmare, hope
this ends very fast and everyone including our colleagues in Gaza
stay safe and healthy. We wish to meet you guys again in any in
person gathering in sha Allah (if the almighty wants)

Sending a lot of love and prayers,
Rafi

On Sat, Oct 28, 2023, 10:42 PM The Aafi wrote:

Nada Alfarra has also edited recently on 25 Oct. I pray for
her and everyone's safety.

Aafi

On Sat, 28 Oct 2023, 22:09 The Aafi,
wrote:

Unfortunate. I pray alongwith others that this comes to
end. It has taken so many lives. RIP Hiba. Your words will
help. These will be remembered. May Allah Almighty grant
you a highest abode in paradise. Aamin!

To Butch: I'm not sure if it's same as the Nada we had at
Wikimania. Nada Alfarra's Telegram shows last seen from
yesterday and Hiba Abu Nada left for the other world on 20
October. May she get peace.

Regards
Aafi

On Sat, 28 Oct 2023, 21:52 Butch Bustria,
wrote:

This is sad, especially she wrote a thoughtful diff
post a month prior about her struggle in going to
Singapore in Wikimania, a prior before that.

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/09/20/what-is-a-wikimedian-life-without-a-first-wikimania/

On Sat, Oct 28, 2023, 11:28 PM Ruby D-Brown
wrote:

This is so sad! Rest well, Nada.

On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 1:43 PM Gnangarra
wrote:

such sad news,

Rest peacefully Nada

On Sat, 28 Oct 2023 at 21:33, Ndahiro Derrick
Alter wrote:

This is really saddening,
RIP Nada
derrick

On Sat, 28 Oct 2023 at 14:45 Andy Mabbett
wrote:

I just learned that a Wikimedian, Hiba
Abu Nada, was one of the
casualties in Gaza. She was 32, and
died on 20 October, during an
airstrike.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiba_Abu_Nada

May the region soon be at peace.

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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Hiba Abu Nada, RIP

2023-10-28 Thread Florence Devouard

I feel extremely sad by this news.

During Wikimania, I attended the Learning Clinic : Networking for
introverts.

We were sitting at the same table, next to one another. During the
session, we naturally paired and told one another about who we were,
what our journey had been so far, and shared our personal dreams,
personal and for Wikimedia.
Time was limited, but the session was targetted to get to know one
another. And this is what we did. I remember us discussing the work on
the leadership development plan recently published (and which I found
awesome), but also food science, translations, travelling... We
continued our discussion as the session was closing, beyond the session,
exchanged our contacts, and expressed the wish to work together in the
future.
I am fairly sure I had already seen her, at another conference I
suppose. But that Clinic was the first time I talked to Nada Kareem (she
made me repeat Kareem several times till I get it right :)).

I felt connected to her. She could become a friend. I had not read her
diff until today, but I now realize she mentionned my name in her
report. So I guess the feeling of connection was likely reciprocal.
My memory of her, from Wikimania, is a sunny personnality, friendly and
warm person, clear-minded, smart, definitly smart.

I am deeply sorry Nada. Rest in Peace

Florence

Le 28/10/2023 à 18:21, Butch Bustria a écrit :
This is sad, especially she wrote a thoughtful diff post a month prior
about her struggle in going to Singapore in Wikimania, a prior before
that.

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/09/20/what-is-a-wikimedian-life-without-a-first-wikimania/

On Sat, Oct 28, 2023, 11:28 PM Ruby D-Brown wrote:

This is so sad! Rest well, Nada.

On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 1:43 PM Gnangarra wrote:

such sad news,

Rest peacefully Nada

On Sat, 28 Oct 2023 at 21:33, Ndahiro Derrick Alter
wrote:

This is really saddening,
RIP Nada
derrick

On Sat, 28 Oct 2023 at 14:45 Andy Mabbett
wrote:

I just learned that a Wikimedian, Hiba Abu Nada, was
one of the
casualties in Gaza. She was 32, and died on 20
October, during an
airstrike.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiba_Abu_Nada

May the region soon be at peace.

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[Wikimedia-l] Publication of Wikimedians for Offline Wikis UG

2023-09-13 Thread Florence Devouard


Hello


Please find our UserGroup annual report here : 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Reports/June_2023



If interested by this topic, please feel free to join our mailing list, 
continue the conversation, and/or add your name in the membership page.



Best


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[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wiki Loves Africa] 2024 Theme Suggestions

2023-09-05 Thread Florence Devouard


Absolutely correct. We can revisit.
For example, our best theme ever was "People at Work" (second best was 
Play).
"African industries and commercial activities" suggested by Clementine 
is in that vein.


Another element is that in the past couple of years, we have put some 
energy in getting the contest not only about photos, but also about 
graphics, audios and videos. Graphics has been a total failure so far, 
but the videos are raising interest :)


Flo


Le 05/09/2023 à 17:08, Gnangarra a écrit :
Flo makes a very good point about themes and overlapping or 
conflicting purposes. Is there a reason to find a new theme its 10 
years since Wiki Loves Africa began why not revisit an earlier theme 
itsnot like technology has stood still, nor is the community the same 
people, and even the audience is changing as a new generation of 
contributors are discovering us for the first time.


Communities dont have to come up with something new every year, the 
aim is about making it appealing to a new audience


On Tue, 5 Sept 2023 at 22:30, Florence Devouard  
wrote:


Hello


I am going to comment on this one for I think it provides the
opportunity to reflect on our global campaigns and
collaborations-at-large.

It is an excellent theme obviously. But one I would oppose we
choose. There are several reasons.

First, the initial reason why we decided to launch WLA in 2014. We
had noticed that participation from the African continent at that
time was terribly low. When awareness studies were made, it showed
that the Wikimedia projects were yet very poorly known from the
public (even the online connect public). We knew our first
participants would be largely new to the wiki world. Our goal was
to promote awareness of wikimedia through a regular, easy to grasp
project, easy to participate drive. We also wanted a drive where
anyone could participate regardless of whether there was a local
team in their country or not. There were very few images from the
african continent, so any theme would bring in content that would
be an improvement. And choice of theme had to be a theme behind
which a small team could cluster, regardless of political,
religious etc. opinions. Our goal was not to simply "get images on
Commons", but also to raise awareness on the continent, and to
give the opportunity to small local clusters to start organizing
something together and later become a usergroup, become integrated
in the larger community etc.

This is why the themes we chose so far were purposefully as
inclusive as possible, easy to understand, could be joined by
anyone. I do not believe "Living Heritage" fits into that category
so well. If you ask the standard person in the street what "living
heritage" is... chance is you'll get a puzzled look.

9 years later, an additional layer of complexity is that more
photography contests born (such as Wiki Loves Folklore) or more
"larger approach drives" such as "Wiki Loves Living Heritage".
It already took us a few years to "make all photo drives" fit in
the calendar (eg, Wiki Loves Africa changed its implementation
months three times to accomodate other photo contests).
I do not think it would be helpful to overlap with the other
contests focus. In particular when Wiki Loves Folklore is already
overlapping a couple of weeks with Wiki Loves Africa in the calendar.
- First it would bring confusion to participants (so... what's the
difference between x and y ?)
- Second, it could bring tensions between the organizers of the
two drives, such as on communications, banners... (been there,
done that...)
- Third, local teams would probably NOT "do more" or "do better".
They would implement activities that would be attributed to both
drives. You would end up with pictures taggued with both
categories. It already happens.

We would certainly "reach" some different people. Not all
participants would be overlapping, nor activities.
But would the overlapping and the tensions be worth the effort ?
Would that be a good use of our collective time ? Would that be a
good use of our shared funds ? I do not think so.

Which is why... we try... every year... to choose a theme that
tries not to overlap too badly with the other photo contest
themes. This is in particular true to anything related to
"folklore and heritage"  (= Wiki Loves Folklore, Wiki Loves
Heritage) and true to anything related to "awesome landscapes and
nature" (=Wiki Loves Earth).

We gotta be smart, share the space-fund-energy-time, and
collaborate when it makes sense to collaborate, but always keeping
in mind to preserve or enhance the other great initiatives.

Flo

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wiki Loves Africa] 2024 Theme Suggestions

2023-09-05 Thread Florence Devouard


Hello


I am going to comment on this one for I think it provides the 
opportunity to reflect on our global campaigns and collaborations-at-large.


It is an excellent theme obviously. But one I would oppose we choose. 
There are several reasons.


First, the initial reason why we decided to launch WLA in 2014. We had 
noticed that participation from the African continent at that time was 
terribly low. When awareness studies were made, it showed that the 
Wikimedia projects were yet very poorly known from the public (even the 
online connect public). We knew our first participants would be largely 
new to the wiki world. Our goal was to promote awareness of wikimedia 
through a regular, easy to grasp project, easy to participate drive. We 
also wanted a drive where anyone could participate regardless of whether 
there was a local team in their country or not. There were very few 
images from the african continent, so any theme would bring in content 
that would be an improvement. And choice of theme had to be a theme 
behind which a small team could cluster, regardless of political, 
religious etc. opinions. Our goal was not to simply "get images on 
Commons", but also to raise awareness on the continent, and to give the 
opportunity to small local clusters to start organizing something 
together and later become a usergroup, become integrated in the larger 
community etc.


This is why the themes we chose so far were purposefully as inclusive as 
possible, easy to understand, could be joined by anyone. I do not 
believe "Living Heritage" fits into that category so well. If you ask 
the standard person in the street what "living heritage" is... chance is 
you'll get a puzzled look.


9 years later, an additional layer of complexity is that more 
photography contests born (such as Wiki Loves Folklore) or more "larger 
approach drives" such as "Wiki Loves Living Heritage".
It already took us a few years to "make all photo drives" fit in the 
calendar (eg, Wiki Loves Africa changed its implementation months three 
times to accomodate other photo contests).
I do not think it would be helpful to overlap with the other contests 
focus. In particular when Wiki Loves Folklore is already overlapping a 
couple of weeks with Wiki Loves Africa in the calendar.
- First it would bring confusion to participants (so... what's the 
difference between x and y ?)
- Second, it could bring tensions between the organizers of the two 
drives, such as on communications, banners... (been there, done that...)
- Third, local teams would probably NOT "do more" or "do better". They 
would implement activities that would be attributed to both drives. You 
would end up with pictures taggued with both categories. It already happens.


We would certainly "reach" some different people. Not all participants 
would be overlapping, nor activities.
But would the overlapping and the tensions be worth the effort ? Would 
that be a good use of our collective time ? Would that be a good use of 
our shared funds ? I do not think so.


Which is why... we try... every year... to choose a theme that tries not 
to overlap too badly with the other photo contest themes. This is in 
particular true to anything related to "folklore and heritage"  (= Wiki 
Loves Folklore, Wiki Loves Heritage) and true to anything related to 
"awesome landscapes and nature" (=Wiki Loves Earth).


We gotta be smart, share the space-fund-energy-time, and collaborate 
when it makes sense to collaborate, but always keeping in mind to 
preserve or enhance the other great initiatives.


Flo


Le 05/09/2023 à 09:31, Gnangarra a écrit :

What about "Wiki Loves Africa's Living Heritage"

On Tue, 5 Sept 2023 at 05:16, Wilson Oluoha  
wrote:


Dear Wikimedians,

The search for a theme for the *2024 Wiki Loves Africa* contest is
still ongoing.

Please click the link below to share your thoughts on what you
think the next Wiki Loves Africa theme should be:

WLA 2024 Theme Suggestions



Kindly recall that Wiki Loves Africa
 
(www.wikilovesafrica.net
) is an annual photography
competition that takes place across Africa. It was designed to
take back the visual narrative by re-imaging contemporary society
and cultural heritage across Africa through the eyes of Africa’s
photographers.

Wiki Loves Africa images have collectively - since metrics began
in 2016 - been viewed 1 billion times.

Started in 2014, the 9 editions so far have resulted in the
contribution of 102,068 images to Wikipedia's media library,
Wikimedia Commons, by over 10,380 photographers from 55 countries
across the continent. The images have a life beyond the
competition, with these images being placed in articles on
Wikipedia, and

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Africa Day Campaign 2023 Winners

2023-08-31 Thread Florence Devouard


Hello Engene

This is very impressive. Congratulations to the winners and thanks to 
all of the participants AND organizers ;)


And happy to see a French speaker listed here ;)

Flo


Le 30/08/2023 à 17:55, Eugene Masiku a écrit :


Hello everyone,


The African Knowledge Initiative 
 (AKI), 
seeks to leverage the Wikimedia tools and platforms to breed 
innovative solutions to bridging the content gap on global digital 
knowledge networks.


This year Open Foundation West Africa’s  annual 
writing contest the Africa Wiki Challenge was used as an avenue to 
help achieve AKI’s goal.


The campaign was named the Africa Day Campaign 
 and themed 
"Africa Free Continent Trade" to align with the Africa Union Day 2023 
theme.


From the Campaign's Program Dashboard 
, 
we tracked a total of 20 Programs, with 473 editors, from 13 countries 
contributing to 4000 articles



After months of intense and rigorous reviews by the Africa Day Contest 
Jury, we are elated to announce the winners of the Africa Day Campaign 
2023.


Congratulations to the winners of the campaign.


Winners

Winner- User:Muhammed Idriss Criteria from Nigeria- 502 new articles 
in Hausa Wikipedia


2nd Winner - User:Gwanki from Nigeria- 183 new articles in Hausa 
Wikipedia


3rd Winner- User:Charbel1719 Benin - 75 new articles in French Wikipedia

Top Female Contributor- User:Mercyjamb123 - 66 new articles in Igbo 
Wikipedia




We are super grateful to our international jury team who worked 
effortlessly to ensure that the winners were identified.


International Jury

User: Azogbonon - Benin

User: Yaw Tuba- Ghana

User: Anani A. George- Ghana

User: Bile_rene - Cameroon

User: Justine Msechu -Tanzania

User: Memoriesghana -Ghana

User: Kwaku Berko- Ghana

To all our partners, local organizers, and editors, we appreciate your 
efforts in making this campaign a success.



Kind Regards,

Eugene Masiku


--
Eugene Makafui Masiku,Communications OfficerOpen Foundation West Africa

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[Wikimedia-l] My qestions : Re: Re: Wikimedia Foundation Form 990 for FY 2021-2022 now on-wiki

2023-05-12 Thread Florence Devouard

Good pointer Lauren.

This is now done

Florence

Le 11/05/2023 à 22:48, Lauren Worden a écrit :

Flo and Andreas,

Have you asked these questions to ask...@wikimedia.org?

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Community_Affairs_Committee/2023-05-18_Conversation_with_Trustees#Submit_your_questions

-LW

On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 12:22 PM Florence Devouard wrote:

Speaking of which... I was reading with a lot of interest the new policy
regarding severance packages...

I read on the diff (1)

"The guidelines have also provided an opportunity to better align our processes globally
when staff leave the Foundation. This includes a new standardized severance policy for staff
at all levels of one month of severance pay for every year of their employment, up to nine
months (unless local laws require otherwise) – any exceptions require a joint recommendation
by the Head of Talent & Culture and the General Counsel, with final approval from the
CEO. The guidelines have allowed us to make these and other policies more transparent to
staff irrespective of where they live and work."

I suppose this decision was partly made because some staff did not benefit from
a severance package (or only from a very poor one), in particular in cases of
non-US based staff. If that's the case, it is a good move to introduce more
equity.

Out of curiosity...

1) is the one month of severence pay entirely based on the last month salary,
or the last year salary, or does it take into account the previous years (which
were presumbly at lower salary) ?

2) for those staff who are "exceptions", is the agreement with the exception
done at the beginning of the tenure, at the end of the tenure (as part of the departure
discussion) or can be discussed-rediscussed at any time during the agreement ?

3) do you plan to communicate on the number (or percentage) of staff who are actually in the
"exception" packages ? (no name obviously, but an idea of the size of that segment.
Because if the "exception" segment is 50% of the 700+ staff, then equity is not it...)

4) do you plan to adopt a "maximum" for those in the exception segment (for example, the
standard is 1 month per year employed... to limit the severance to equivalent "xx months of
employed years")

5) last... is there an incentive system in place to invite WMF staff to make
donations to WMF or to the other Wikimedia entitites (such as doubling their
donations)

Salaries at the WMF seem to have climbed tremendously the past few years (2).
Severance packages seriously climb as well. Many will turn a blind eye on this,
but I am sure you realize that others might be concerned.
I fully understand and support the approach that would result in more equity
for WMF staff and recognise that this must be a challenge to implement due to
the diversity of countries they live in.
I also recognise the need to make working for WMF appealing, hence confortable
packages.
But still...Is there anything done to better address the serious escalation of
severance packages of the high level executives ? (beside inviting them to
leave asap they have been employed more than 5 years that is)

Flo

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation Form 990 for FY 2021-2022 now on-wiki

2023-05-11 Thread Florence Devouard

Speaking of which... I was reading with a lot of interest the new policy
regarding severance packages...

I read on the diff (1)

"The guidelines have also provided an opportunity to better align our
processes globally when staff leave the Foundation. This includes a new
standardized severance policy for staff at all levels of one month of
severance pay for every year of their employment, up to nine months
(unless local laws require otherwise) – any exceptions require a joint
recommendation by the Head of Talent & Culture and the General Counsel,
with final approval from the CEO. The guidelines have allowed us to make
these and other policies more transparent to staff irrespective of where
they live and work. "

I suppose this decision was partly made because some staff did not
benefit from a severance package (or only from a very poor one), in
particular in cases of non-US based staff. If that's the case, it is a
good move to introduce more equity.

Out of curiosity...

1) is the one month of severence pay entirely based on the last month
salary, or the last year salary, or does it take into account the
previous years (which were presumbly at lower salary) ?

2) for those staff who are "exceptions", is the agreement with the
exception done at the beginning of the tenure, at the end of the tenure
(as part of the departure discussion) or can be discussed-rediscussed at
any time during the agreement ?

3) do you plan to communicate on the number (or percentage) of staff who
are actually in the "exception" packages ? (no name obviously, but an
idea of the size of that segment. Because if the "exception" segment is
50% of the 700+ staff, then equity is not it...)

4) do you plan to adopt a "maximum" for those in the exception segment
(for example, the standard is 1 month per year employed... to limit the
severance to equivalent "xx months of employed years")

5) last... is there an incentive system in place to invite WMF staff to
make donations to WMF or to the other Wikimedia entitites (such as
doubling their donations)

Salaries at the WMF seem to have climbed tremendously the past few years
(2). Severance packages seriously climb as well. Many will turn a blind
eye on this, but I am sure you realize that others might be concerned.
I fully understand and support the approach that would result in more
equity for WMF staff and recognise that this must be a challenge to
implement due to the diversity of countries they live in.
I also recognise the need to make working for WMF appealing, hence
confortable packages.
But still...Is there anything done to better address the serious
escalation of severance packages of the high level executives ? (beside
inviting them to leave asap they have been employed more than 5 years
that is)

Flo

(1)
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/04/06/wikimedia-foundation-global-guidelines-policies-practices/

(2) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salaries

Le 09/05/2023 à 21:55, effe iets anders a écrit :
I'm sure someone at the Foundation will have a better response, and
you may have puzzled this together yourself already, but we've seen in
previous years that the reported salary went up in the last year of
someone's service, possibly due to consulting fees and severance
packages. Both Maher and Uzzell left the Foundation in 2021. Typically
the WMF has been cautious to give much detail on this though
(understandably).

Lodewijk

On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 10:03 AM Andreas Kolbe wrote:

Dear all,

Page 49 of the new Form 990 (2021) shows the following total
compensation figures for former CEO Katherine Maher and Janeen
Uzzell in that year:

*$798,632 and $515,553 *respectively. Both figures far exceed all
prior records.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/1/14/Wikimedia_Foundation_2021_Form_990.pdf#page=49

The Form 990 now shows a total of *six* executives whose total
compensation exceeded *$400,000*.

For comparison, the Form 990 for the year before (2020) showed a
total of *eight* executives whose total compensation exceeded
*$300,000*:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/e/e4/Wikimedia_Foundation_2020_Form_990.pdf#page=48

These are interesting developments.

Andreas

On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 4:25 PM Nataliia Tymkiv
wrote:

Dear all,

Today, the Wikimedia Foundation published the Form 990 [1], an
informational tax form required annually of all nonprofit
organisations based in the US. The Form 990 provides a
financial overview of the Foundation, including the balance
sheet, revenue and expenses, as well as grantmaking,
governance, and other financial policies. It also includes
compensation information required for senior executives. This
document is reviewed by the Board each year before it is
published on the Foundation website.

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Deror Lin passed away

2023-05-06 Thread Florence Devouard

I feel very sad as well. His joyful personnality, his energy and
enthousiasm, and his erudition left me with very fond memories. As
mentionned by others... a very documented visit of Jerusalem so many
years ago... Wikimania in Haifa... the coolest projects... the 2022
award... and yes... his struggles with technology during Wikimania
committee meetings :) He was a graceful fighter.

My deepest condolences to Deror's family and friends

Ant

Le 06/05/2023 à 19:49, Samuel Klein a écrit :

Ahh no! he will leave such a hole in the world.
What joyful memories I have of exploring history and geography with
him; and a photo with him from Haifa stills sits on my fridge.

Love and condolences to his family; thank you so much Itzik for
letting us know.

Sam
❤️‍

On Sat, May 6, 2023, 3:59 AM itzik Edri wrote:

Dear friends,

I'm sorry to update that our friend and colleague Deror Lin
(user:Deror_Avi) passed away this morning.

Deror was a truly Wikimedian in blood who poured his heart and
soul into the movement in many ways, even in his final days. He
joined Wikipedia in 2004 and was one of the founders of Wikimedia
Israel. For over 16 years, he served as an active board member.

He was the driving force behind Wikimania 2011 in Haifa and a key
member of the Wikimania committee ever since. He led countless
programs and projects, both locally and internationally, including
conferences, WLM competitions, educational programs, photo and
editing contests, and many others.

More than that, he wrote over 8,600 articles on HEWP (comprising
more than 2% of it!), making him the number one article writer in
HEWP, alongside more than 37,000 contributions to Commons.

For his huge contribution and love for the movement, he was
honored last year as the Wikipedia Laureate of 2022.

Deror, you were not just a colleague but a true friend. We worked
together on many projects, events, and initiatives over the years.
No matter the situation, you always had a smile and shining eyes
with your love for Wikipedia.

*On behalf of Wikimedia Israel, I extend our deepest condolences
to Deror's family and friends. You will always be remembered, Deror.*
*ברוך דיין האמת. Baruch dayan ha-emet*

Itzik.
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Recognition of Wikimedia Community User Group Togo

2023-04-12 Thread Florence Devouard


Congratulations to the new group :)

Welcome

Flo

Le 10/04/2023 à 20:06, Mermoze ADODO a écrit :

Congratulations to the new user group community in Togo

Le dim. 9 avr. 2023 à 02:36, Bobby Shabangu  
a écrit :


Thanks Jeffrey and welcome to UG Togo.

Best regards,
Bobby Shabangu

On Sat, 8 Apr 2023 at 20:44, Affiliations Committee
 wrote:

Hi everyone!

I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has
recognized [1] Wikimedia Community User Group Togo [2] as a
Wikimedia User Group. The group aims to improve and promote
Wikimedia Foundation's knowledge projects in Togo.

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_Togo

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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join us!! WikiAfrica Hour Special Launch Edition: Africa Environment WikiFocus

2023-03-03 Thread Florence Devouard


**

*We can’t hide our excitement anymore… Today's the day! This is a 
reminder that the WikiAfrica Hour 
Special Launch 
Edition forAfrica Environment WikiFocus 
is set to beginDay: 
today Friday, March 3rd When : 16:00 UTC 
Where 
: Link to WikiAfrica Hour ! 
(Live on Youtube)Language : 
English (on youtube)*


*

Session is organized on Zoom (LINK 
).On zoom, language is English, 
with simultaneous translations in French, Portuguese and Arabic.


If you get difficulties to join Zoom, please attend the Youtube session 
and do participate ! We will keep time at the end to answer your questions.


Note: the vodcast is viewable from both your desktop and mobile. Any 
questions or comments or difficulties, please contact 
clement...@wikiinafrica.org 


We’ll see you in a bit!

*

Flo


Le 01/03/2023 à 14:10, Nonny Ntahla a écrit :


Wikimedians!


Join us on Friday, March 3rd for our Wiki Africa Hour 
Special Edition as we 
launch the Africa Environment WikiFocus Drive 
. This exciting 
event will be hosted by Anthony Ibe from Africa Tech Radio.



Register Today! 




Guests include:

 *

Natasha Kimani: Head of Partnerships and Research, Africa No Filter

 *

Tracy Anyango: Programmes Officer, Center for Justice Governance
and Environmental Action, Kenya

 *

Tatjana Baleta: Wikimedia Visiting Fellow for Climate, Global
Systems Institute, University of Exeter, UK


Here’s what you can learn:

 *

Media coverage of climate change in Africa

 *

Wiki projects on Climate Change

 *

Climate change policies and environmental policies

 *

How YOU can contribute

 *

… and so much MORE!


Logistics:

Date: Friday, 3rd March

When: 16:00 UTC (please find link to your local time) 



Where: Link to be shared upon registration!

Webinar Language: English (some language translations will be provided 
live)



Your commitment to Africa knowledge is greatly appreciated.


It will be a pleasure to see you there!


Best regards

Nonny Ntlahla

Wiki in Africa 




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[Wikimedia-l] Call to submit proposals for the forthcoming Africa Environment Day

2023-02-08 Thread Florence Devouard


**

*Dear Africa-focused Wikimedians and Friends!*

*


We are delighted to share an exciting opportunity for you and your 
communities. As you know, the lack of coverage of African content on 
Wikimedia projects has been a source of concern for some time.



Wiki In Africa 
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wiki_In_Africa>(WIA) 
[1] and Wikimedia Community User Group Côte d’Ivoire 
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_C%C3%B4te_d%27Ivoire>(WMUG 
IC) [2] have been tasked by the African Knowledge Initiative 
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Africa_Knowledge_Initiative>(AKI) 
[3] to organise, support, and launch a month-long focus on Africa’s 
climate and environment, called Africa Environment 
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Environment>[4].



From March 3,  in celebration of Wangari Maathai Day, the Africa 
Environment <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Environment>focus 
encourages Wikimedia and other communities to contribute content related 
to Africa’s Climate 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Climate_of_Africa>to the Wikimedia 
projects 
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_projects>during 
March 2023 and beyond!



Individuals, communities, and organizations are invited to contribute in 
a variety of different ways. Please explore all the options here: 
https://w.wiki/6Jfm <https://w.wiki/6Jfm>



Those Wikimedia communities wishing to host training or contribution 
events can apply for a microgrant of any amount between USD100 and 
USD1500. The deadline to apply for this microgrant is 28 February.



Read the AKI Africa Environment micro-funding criteria and application 
process here: https://w.wiki/6Jdo <https://w.wiki/6Jdo>


Please feel free to share that message with anyone you might think 
interested


Florence Devouard / Anthere Wiki in Africa co-ED


A partnership between the Wikimedia Foundation and the African Union, 
the African Knowledge Initiative celebrates three critical subjects in 
its inaugural year: youth, environment, and the African continent. Each 
focus subject has been entrusted to two implementing Wikimedia-focused 
partners.



[1] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wiki_In_Africa<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wiki_In_Africa>[2] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_C%C3%B4te_d%27Ivoire 
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_C%C3%B4te_d%27Ivoire>


[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Knowledge_Initiative 
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Knowledge_Initiative>


[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Environment 
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Environment>



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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia UG Nigeria : Submission of our Annual activities and Financial Report for the Year 2021-2022

2022-11-28 Thread Florence Devouard


Thank you Shola

Flo


Le 24/11/2022 à 22:35, Olushola Olaniyan a écrit :


Dear friends!

Greetings from Lagos, Nigeria.

As a requirement by the Wikimedia Affiliate committee, we are glad to 
inform you of the submission of our annual activities and financial 
report FTY 2021-2022 (1) (2).


We thank and appreciate every individual and organization that has 
supported and collaborated with us to achieve the set objectives for 
the year.


We hope to continue on this note with you in the ongoing year.

Please feel free to read and learn from our work. We will be available 
to attend to questions on the submitted report.


Ref. (1) 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria/Reports/2021-2022
(2) 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cYS_6V6nWxS3z1AGhzvgkdhmueP3BoKY/edit?usp=sharing=101598098093447600139=true=true 



Best regards
Olaniyan Olushola







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[Wikimedia-l] Launch of photographic contest Wiki Loves Africa 2023 : Grant requests (deadline December 1st)

2022-11-11 Thread Florence Devouard


THEME 2023 : Climate and Weather


Wiki Loves Africa 2023 will be relaunched soon. More info will come soon.
For the groups who need to make rapid grant requests, the deadline is 
DECEMBER 1st.
Office hours next Tuesday and Wenesday in the evening. CHECK : 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2023/Participating_communities#Funding



Wiki Loves Africa 2023 va bientôt redémarrer. Plus d’info très bientôt.
Pour les groupes qui ont besoin de faire des demandes de microfi, la 
date limite et le 1 DECEMBRE
Premières réunions prévues mardi et mercredi soir. Plus d’info ici : 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2023/Participating_communities#Funding


Florence
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wiki Loves Africa] Invitation to episode 17 of WikiAfrica Hour

2022-10-28 Thread Florence Devouard


Pointing out that the correct date is the 28 (today). Not 29...


Florence


Le 24/10/2022 à 23:19, Ceslause Ogbonnaya a écrit :

Dear all,

It's my pleasure to invite you to episode 17 of WIkiAfrica Hour, 
titled "Wiki Loves Africa 2022: Winners".


It's an episode focused on hearing from the winners of the Wiki Loves 
Africa 2022 International prizes, to understand their photography 
journeys, their conviction around using photos and videos to tell 
stories, documentary photography, etc, and the selection process 
carried out by the Wiki Loves Africa 2022 International jury.


Guests include:

  * Miriam Nwosah
, Member -
Wiki Loves Africa 2022 Int'l jury

  * Anas Adam , Member
- Wiki Loves Africa 2022 Int'l jury

  * Summer Kamal 
- 1st prize winner, Wiki Loves Africa 2022

  * Mohamed Hozyen  -
2nd prize winner, Wiki Loves Africa 2022

  * Ayorinde Ogundele
 - 3rd
prize winner, Wiki Loves Africa 2022

  * Green Wilfred Somoni
 -
Best video prize winner, Wiki Loves Africa 2022

  * Mohammed Yousry
, Special
Collection prize winner, Wiki Loves Africa 2022


Date: 29th October 2022
Time: 4:00 PM UTC
Details: http://w.wiki/5dft

Regards,
Ceslause Ogbonnaya
*Host,WikiAfrica Hour
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[Wikimedia-l] Episode 13 Inspiring Open Podcast episode : "Life can be really, really hard. And I feel like we need to be deliberate about inviting pleasure in our life"

2022-10-04 Thread Florence Devouard

Hello everyone

I wanted to promote the episode #13 of the Wiki Loves Women Inspiring
Open podcast.
It features Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, an advocate for African women's
sexuality and sexual pleasure.

Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah is the author of the ‘Sex Lives of African Women’
a book which celebrates African women’s journey towards sexual
liberation. She is the co-founder of Adventures from the Bedrooms of
African Women, an award-winning website, podcast and festival that
publishes and creates content that tell stories of African women’s
experiences around sex, sexualities and pleasure. Her short stories have
been published in ‘It Wasn’t Exactly Love’ and ‘The Pot and Other
Stories’. The Guardian, Open Democracy and Essence have published her
articles and opinion editorials. She currently work for the Association
for Women's Rights in Development, AWID, as their director of
communication and tactics.

In case you want to explore other inspirations...

And ... by the way ... she does not only speak about sex ;)

Listen to her here :
https://podcast.wikiloveswomen.org/podcast-item/nana-darkoa-sekyiamah/

Summary keywords : women, feminism, litterature, sexuality, activism

Cheers

Flo

The Wiki Loves Women team launched a podcast a few weeks ago.
We have released 10 episodes so far, with a frequency of two episodes
per month.
All episodes are available on the usual podcast platforms, or may be
accessed on Wiki Loves Women website with additional notes about each
episode.

https://podcast.wikiloveswomen.org

If you are interested to receive a brief message on your talk each
time a new episode is published, please drop your name here :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Women/Podcast#Subscribe

Anthere

About Inspiring Open

Inspiring Open is a podcast series about women from Wiki Loves Women
that celebrates the inspirational women whose careers and personal
ethics intersect with the Open movement. Each episode features a
dynamic woman from Africa who has pushed the boundaries of what it
means to build communities and succeed as a collective. As a podcast
series, it is available at anytime, anywhere to amplify the
motivational stories of each guest, as spoken in their own voice.
Listen to their personal journeys in conversation with host Betty
Kankam-Boadu.

Join Inspiring Open as we raise the global visibility and profiles of
women who are redefining and reclaiming the Open sector.

Be inspired • Be challenged • Be bold!

[Wikimedia-l] Release of WikiAfrica Hour #16 : Wiki Identity - stewarding Wikipedia and Wikimedia's brand ecosystem

2022-09-27 Thread Florence Devouard


Hello everyone


I wanted to share the link to the youtube version of the last episode of 
WikiAfrica Hour : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmLcuMNIhcQ


The last episode took place last Friday, but a technical glitch broke 
the live session display on youtube :(

We uploaded a new clean and complete version earlier today.

The episode was about : How are Wikis easily identified? Why are these 
identities important? It's a round table discussion with the teams 
behind the respective identities associated to various Wikimedia projects.


The topic of this month was of interest to the entire community. The 
guests were : * Zack McCune, Director of Brand, Wikimedia Foundation * 
Erina Mukuta, Wikimedia Sound Logo community liaison


The record is one hour long, but chapters allow you to go to specific 
moments in the record.


Florence

More about the WikiAfrica Hour : 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiAfrica_Hour
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[Wikimedia-l] Annual Report Wikimedians for offline wikis posted for your attention

2022-09-19 Thread Florence Devouard


Here : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Reports/June_2022


Thanks

Florence
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Nine Month Update & Foundation Leadership Team

2022-09-06 Thread Florence Devouard


Thank you for the update Maryana :)

Flo

Le 06/09/2022 à 21:16, Samuel Klein a écrit :
Seconded — thank you for these continuing updates, and for always 
inviting conversation. Essential, even when it takes time for those 
seeds to sprout.




On Tue., Sep. 6, 2022, 7:11 p.m. Craig Newmark, 
 wrote:


Maryana, much appreciated!

Craig Newmark, craigslist founder
craignewmarkphilanthropies.org 

On Tue, Sep 6, 2022, 9:53 AM Maryana Iskander
 wrote:

This message is being translated into other languages on
Meta-wiki. ‎You can help with more languages.



Hi everyone,

I’ve started my ninth official month as CEO of the Wikimedia
Foundation. Based on feedback from this list and elsewhere, I
am trying to proactively communicate every few months on my
priorities and what I continue to learn.

I regularly return to the five ‘puzzles’

I
identified in my original letter to you. For me, these
continue to pose big questions about our role in the world and
our ways of working with each other. I’ve mentioned that one
highlight of the year so far has been bringing colleagues
together – volunteers, editors, affiliates, Foundation staff,
board members – to reconnect at a human level. Many of you
have shared with me the need for more spaces that can help us
build (and rebuild) relationships and trust.

As more communities return to in-person events, I have
benefitted from spending time with volunteers at WikiCon
Brasil and at the Wikimania meetup hosted in Cape Town. I look
forward to participating in-person and virtually at many more
regional gatherings in the months ahead.

I am writing today to provide you with an update on the three
priorities I identified in January.


Priority 1: Strategy and Planning

My first priority remains focused on strategy and planning. In
June, we shared the successful adoption of the Wikimedia
Foundation’s Annual Plan

.
It is now anchored in the strategic direction of our movement
– knowledge equity and knowledge as a service – and it
identifies the Foundation’s strengthened focus on regions and
on projects. This plan benefited from the contributions and
feedback of hundreds of volunteers who provided input on-wiki
and through other multilingual channels of communication.
We’ll share updates on progress before the end of the calendar
year on the Annual Plan meta page and in other forums. Our
intention is to continue asking for guidance and input from
volunteers, affiliates, and communities.


I mentioned in my April message that the Wikimedia Foundation
has grown very rapidly over the past 3 years as part of its
medium term plan – increasing its budget by more than 30% in
the past year with the addition of more than 200 new people
since 2020.This growth will not continue as we stabilize and
make sure that new resources are delivering maximum impact for
our mission. The Foundation’s approved budget represents a 17%
increase, most of this is inflationary and other year-on-year
costs. Funding to other movement entities (individual and
affiliate) grew by 24% percent.


While the annual plan is an important start, it does not
address all of the significant strategic issues facing
Wikimedia – none of which can be solved in a single year.
Within the framework of our movement strategy and emerging
charter, I plan to continue partnering with Foundation
stakeholders and communities in co-planning approaches to
tackle strategic issues that an annual plan cannot fully
address. The Board of Trustees will help kick this off with
strategic planning engagements at the board’s upcoming meeting
in Berlin. This will be followed by important conversations
about strategy implementation at the Wikimedia Summit
(returning
for the first time since 2019).


Priority 2: Leadership

I highlighted in January that CEO transitions are disruptive
for most organisations and change often continues after a new
leader has arrived. I have been trying to build a broader
leadership team at the Wikimedia Foundation as I focus on
successfully onboarding new hires,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The 2022 Board of Trustees election Community Voting period is now open

2022-08-24 Thread Florence Devouard

Hello

There were a lot of improvements in that election process and I really
think the compass system is an awesome tool and was usefully used during
those elections.

However, I am very unpleased by the very severe restrictions on
candidates freedom of speech and on attempts of restriction on voters
freedom of speech regarding those elections.

By and large, for the arguments of
1) equity of treatement of all candidates and
2) time and energy requirements of all voters
the democratic process is largely impaired.

*In fact... an election IS by essence a competition.* And whilst equity
of treatment must be in our minds, we should not let it damage the
democratic process. And restricting candidates from campaigning and
restricting community from discussing and recommanding is a flawed
democratic process.

So what do we have in the end to decide on a candidate ?

1) Candidate statement. Text-based, translated in various languages.
Excellent.

2) An election compass based on 12 questions. Very interesting, though
on a limited number of topics.

3) Videos on a few restricted questions. It saves time to the voters.
But it is not very visible. It is in English. And it is on a limited
number of questions.

4) A rating provided by the Analysis Committee, which evaluated the
candidates against the skills and diversity, equity and inclusion
criteria. Well, there could be suscipions over any process where a
committee tell us what to vote. If our individual recommandations are
considered unfair and bringing inequity, then those recommandations are
unfair and bringing inequity too.

I found interesting to look at this page :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Events

Sections "Schedules events" and "Tentative events" are completely empty.

The restrictions placed over the rights to speak this year really had a
chilling effect .

I hope that in the future, the candidates and the community voices are
given more liberty.

Florence

Just in case, I am sharing the last WikiAfrica Hour episode, where all 6
candidates finally had the right to speak up *(2 months struggle to get
there though)* : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwZ_7Bg1ENk

Le 24/08/2022 à 08:54, Mahuton Possoupe a écrit :

Hello, Emufarmers and Andreas

This was pointed out on Meta as well.

The message announcing the opening of the vote was prepared months in
advance, including translations, before the decision was made to
create campaign videos. The link to the videos wasn't included in this
version because of this, but the suggestion was to link the videos
from the Candidates page, [1] which IS linked and translated. That was
overlooked. While we haven’t got time to get the update to that page
translated, we have added the links under a header that makes them
easy to find and should be easy to translate. We will also include a
note about the videos when we send our voting reminder.

Best regards,

Mahuton (WMF)

[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Candidates#Community_Questions

On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 2:17 AM Andreas Kolbe wrote:

The on-wiki voting instructions in all the other languages still
make no mention of the videos.

Andreas

On Tuesday, August 23, 2022, Benjamin Lees
wrote:
> I'm surprised to see that this announcement includes no mention
of the videos that the candidates created answering community
questions[1] and instead highlights the affiliate questions from
the earlier phase of the election. The on-wiki instructions also
made no mention of the videos until a community member added
them,[2] and the posting of the videos was not announced on this
list until Andreas did it.[3]
> To be clear, the decision to channel campaign activities into
video rather than text settings was both inconvenient and
inequitable, both for the candidates and for voters, and probably
doomed any chance to have the candidates' answers translated for
non-English-speaking voters. There are no usable transcripts
available[4], except for the written answers from the one
candidate who has opted to provide them.[5] But since this is the
path that was chosen, I don't think it's right to bury what little
community engagement we had.
> Emufarmers
>
> [1]

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Campaign_Videos
> [2]

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Community_Voting=23706531=23660982

> [3]

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Community_Voting/Questions_for_Candidates=prev=23691840

[Wikimedia-l] Episode 9 Inspiring Open Podcast episode is out : Helen Turvey

2022-07-18 Thread Florence Devouard


Hello everyone


I wanted to promote the episode #9 of the Wiki Loves Women Inspiring 
Open podcast.
It features Helen Turvey, who is the Executive Director of the 
Shuttleworth Foundation.


For those who do not know anything about this Foundation, it is an 
organisation set up in January 2001 (am I the only one to be amazed by 
the amount of cool projects and cool orgs set up in January 2001 ?) to 
provide funding for people engaged in social change. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttleworth_Foundation. They use a 
fellowship model (rather than a more traditional grant system). Notable 
past and present fellows includeMarcin Jakubowski 
(who develops theOpen 
Source Ecology 
project),Rufus 
Pollock (co-founder of 
theOpen Knowledge Foundation 
) andMark 
Surman (now Executive 
Director ofMozilla Foundation 
).



In the podcast, Helen provides deep thoughts and super cool insights 
about philanthropy, which I think any person currently beneficiary of 
funding (or interesting into being) from the wikimedia ecosystem or 
seeking funding from non wikimedian grant makers, could be interested 
about.


Listen to her here :
https://podcast.wikiloveswomen.org/podcast-item/helen-turvey/

Summary keywords : women, philanthropy, open, funding, organisation, 
inequity, administrative justice



Cheers

Flo






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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Selena Deckelmann joins as Chief Product & Technology Officer

2022-06-14 Thread Florence Devouard


Very happy to see you join the wikimedia world Selena !

Wishing you the very best in your new role. Feel free to reach out if 
needed.


Florence / Anthere


Le 13/06/2022 à 19:12, Selena Deckelmann a écrit :


Hello!


I’m so excited to join you all, and I am grateful to Maryana and the 
many people I’ve met on my journey to today’s announcement. Thank you 
for this opportunity to introduce myself!



My grandfather was a TV repairman and I grew up watching him tinker 
and fix things, but college was when I decided to explore electronics 
and computers. I started college thinking that I would play jazz 
violin and maybe get a chemistry degree! A year later, I’d learned 
about the Internet which resulted in skipping classes to install Linux 
from floppy disks, and landing a job at a help desk.



My first programming language was TI-Basic 
, and my second was C++. I 
spent many years with Perl (I’ve had dreams in Perl!), SQL 
and 
later Python, and I’ve dabbled with wikis, including Federated Wiki 
and MediaWiki. I admire Ursula Franklin 
and love her book The 
Real World of Technology.



As I explored computers back in college, I felt compelled to share. 
The experience didn’t feel complete if I was alone. I vividly remember 
the people I connected with – who mentored me, who I wrote software 
with and who just listened. My love for the internet, its freedoms and 
connectedness, came from discovering a world of knowledge freely 
shared beyond anything I had imagined before.



During my interviews with Wikimedia, I felt that strong connection 
again. I heard each person share their reasons for joining this 
movement and their hopes for its future – often in the form of very 
challenging questions!



In the last few years, I’ve worked on problems at the intersection of 
Mozilla’s mission to help create an internet for the benefit of 
individuals, and its business. Very recently, this work resulted in 
shipping Total Cookie Protection, making several major changes to the 
UX of Firefox and launching a small advertising business called 
Firefox Suggest, designed with lean data practices from the start. I 
loved doing this work because of the difficulty of it, how intensely 
those involved had to work to understand one another and the 
communities they served, and that my pragmatic optimism had a part to 
play in getting things shipped.



I also reflected on this moment in my own life: I grew up in Montana 
, where I attended public 
school. I love talking about, reading about 
and 
sometimes doing weightlifting. I’m hapa 
, and I met the Chinese part of 
my family as an adult. I think privacy and freedom 
are 
intimately connected, and that exercising freedoms is a good way to 
keep them. I’m married to a high school teacher, and I have two kids 
who love to crash video meetings, including my interviews with the 
Wikimedia Foundation.



All of that, together, is why I’m joining the Foundation. Wikipedia is 
the promise of collaboration on the internet and the movement for free 
knowledge made good on, in practice not in theory. I believe that 
Wikimedia projects have successfully demonstrated a model that 
produces trustworthy knowledge, and have created a home on the 
internet that the world profoundly trusts. I want to help make and 
ship things to advance free knowledge using the skills I have, while 
also continuing to learn from this ever expanding community of people 
all around the world.



I plan to follow Maryana’s lead, and will start by meeting many people 
to really understand what we collectively need to create a global, 
equitable and inclusive future for free knowledge.



Although I will  join officially in August, I would love to hear from 
anyone interested in sharing directly with me at 
sdeckelm...@wikimedia.org .



-selena



On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 10:09 AM Maryana Iskander 
 wrote:


Hi all,


When I started in January, I  shared with you that one of my top
priorities

coming
to the Wikimedia Foundation was to actively step in and support
the Foundation’s product and technology teams while we recruited
executive leadership of these mission critical functions with a
new Chief Product and Technology Officer.


I am delighted to introduce you to Selena Deckelmann, who will be
joining the Wikimedia Foundation on August 1. She is based in
Portland, Oregon in

[Wikimedia-l] Episode 7 Inspiring Open Podcast episode is out : Esra'a El Shafei

2022-06-07 Thread Florence Devouard


Hello everyone

The episode #7 of the Inspiring Open Podcast is out. This time, we 
feature Esra'a El Shafei


   When Esra’a El Shafei was a teenager, she saw a migrant being
   mistreated. The moment was a shift for her, and she felt compelled
   to do something to help change the plight of migrants in the gulf.
   Esra’a has spent her life building platforms for digital advocacy
   that amplify under-reported and marginalised voices in the Middle
   East and North Africa. Her work includes Mideast Tunes, a web and
   mobile application for independent musicians in the MENA region who
   use music as a tool for social justice advocacy, Ahwaa.org, a
   discussion tool for Arab LGBTQ+ youth which leverages game mechanics
   to protect and engage its community, and Migrant-Rights.org, the
   primary resource on the plight of migrant workers in the Gulf
   region. Esra’a has shown sheer bravery and resilience when it comes
   to promoting human rights and we are honoured to have her as a guest
   on Inspiring Open.

   /Keywords : people, music, organisation, women, community, open,
   Africa, point, find, community engagement, LGBTQ+, Middleeast, MENA,
   Migrant, Rights/

And of course, Esra'a is VC of Wikimedia Foundation board ;)

Listen to her here : 
https://podcast.wikiloveswomen.org/podcast-item/esraa-el-shafei/



Flo



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Date :  Mon, 16 May 2022 17:25:25 +0200
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Pour :  Wikimedia Mailing List 



Hello


The Wiki Loves Women team launched a podcast a few weeks ago.
We have released 5 episodes so far, with a frequency of two episodes per 
month.
All episodes are available on the usual podcast platforms, or may be 
accessed on Wiki Loves Women website with additional notes about each 
episode.

https://podcast.wikiloveswomen.org


The latest episode features Angela Lungati, current CEO of Ushaidi.

If you are interested to receive a brief message on your talk each time 
a new episode is published, please drop your name here : 
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is available at anytime, anywhere to amplify the motivational stories of 
each guest, as spoken in their own voice. Listen to their personal 
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Movement Strategy Forum community review

2022-06-01 Thread Florence Devouard


Hi Quim


Will there be any notion of Single Login in the future (when/if it 
starts being hosted by WMF) ?


Florence


Le 31/05/2022 à 23:38, Quim Gil a écrit :

Hello everyone,

This is an invitation to all Movement Strategy participants and 
Wikimedians in general to try out a new platform for truly 
multilingual collaboration:


Movement Strategy Forum - https://forum.movement-strategy.org/

We have started a community review 
 
period of two months. If the community feedback is positive, the Forum 
will launch in August 2022 before Wikimania. If not, we will follow 
the feedback received, changing the proposal or closing it.


We opened the Forum on May 24 with targeted outreach, hoping that the 
new site features would work.  A week later, the Wikimedia login has 
been used by +200 users, the automatic translation is allowing 
speakers of different languages to discuss together, and we are ready 
to welcome more reviewers, testers, and other curious minds.


We have just released the first weekly report 
. Looking 
forward to reading your first impressions in the next one!


--
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Director of Movement Strategy & Governance @ Wikimedia Foundation
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Qgil-WMF

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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking

2022-05-19 Thread Florence Devouard

I have not further commented because I did not feel I could help further 
at this point. But I wanted to point out that the issue is still on my 
"concerns" list :)


I am looking forward to read your findings when process is completed.

Flo

Le 12/05/2022 à 01:02, Niharika Kohli a écrit :

Hi Butch,

Thanks for your suggestions. On our end, the Wikimedia Foundation 
Product department is currently undertaking stakeholder discussions in 
all the areas you mentioned to understand the problem from all 
different perspectives. As we go through this process we are also 
looking at potential technical solutions that would reduce some of the 
pain points that have been brought up both here and on the talk page. 
There are some existing recommendations on this mailing list and the 
meta page that are good starting points for these discussions.
We will be summarizing our findings and sharing them on this list and 
the talk page once we have completed this process. If anyone 
has direct feedback, my inbox is always open.


Thanks!



On Sat, May 7, 2022 at 9:59 PM  wrote:

Hello Everyone,

Let me suggest three things:

1. For Outreach events, campaigns, GLAM events that conduct new
user training and editathons, the Foundation Programs Team
(https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Programs_Team)
should proactively coordinate with event organizers and/or
foundation grant applicants and offer assistance to link them with
administrators to grant IP exemptions or account creation / event
organizer rights.

2. For WMF Movement Communications Team and Foundation Product
Development Team to conduct stakeholder discussions (end users,
event organizers, active editors) including this mailing list,
talk pages, virtual / video conferences and come up with a
thorough document summarizing the feedbacks. We should not end
decisions on Talk pages and mailing list alone.

3. For the technology team & tech community to come up with an
update on the 18 year old IP block policy that is target bad faith
editors and balancing it with middle to low income communities
(Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Pacific Islands, South America)
with shared internet infrastructure such as mobile data/ school
internet connections.

Thanks.


Kind regards,

Butch
Southeast Asia
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Simplifying governance processes

2022-05-19 Thread Florence Devouard

Florence

(the WMF board elections Analysis Committee selection process...
really... ugh)

Le 19/05/2022 à 13:50, Peter Southwood a écrit :

*From:*Samuel Klein [mailto:meta...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* 18 May 2022 22:44
*To:* Wikimedia Mailing List
*Subject:* [Wikimedia-l] Simplifying governance processes

Dear Board (and all),

The growing complexity of governance efforts is defeating us. Process
creep
is
an existential threat for projects like ours – it is self-perpetuating
if not actively curtailed, as it filters out people who dislike excess
process. There's a reason 'bureaucrats' and 'stewards' have
unglamorous titles.

Global governance in particular seems to be suffering from this now.
Let's try to scale it back! Recent developments, all at least
somewhat confusing:

*Global Council*: A three-stage vote for the drafting committee.
After 6 months of work in private, we know the charter will cover
governance, resourcing, & community
. A
ratifiable charter by 2023 should include Council scope, then
*another* group may draft an election process. Council elections would
start mid-2024.

*Conduct*: Two years from first draft to realization. Custom review &
revision process for policy, set to change ~once a year. Enforcement
by *another* group (U4C), not yet defined, with an idea about annual
elections for it [starting in 2023?].

*WMF Board*: A /four/-stage election, with a new complex nomination
template. Nominees evaluated by *another* elected 9-person Analysis
Committee, followed by a two-stage vote.

Months of process, 16 staff facilitators.

Something has to give. We don't have time for all of these to be
different, complex affairs.
And this complexity feels self-imposed, like trying to push spaghetti
through a straw.

~ ~ ~

Four short proposals for your consideration:

1. Focus discussions on the decisions we need to resolve, not on process.
We need a foundation Board & global Council for specific practical
reasons. What challenges do they need to resolve this year? What
major issues + nuances are at play?

2. Make elections simple, flexible, consistent.
Build tools and frameworks that /conserve/ rather than soak up
community time. Make longer processes capture proportionately
detailed results. Empower a standing election committee.

3. Highlight ways people can engage with governance + prioritization,
regionally + globally, beyond winning elections to procedural bodies.
/Support/ organizers + facilitators rather than /hiring/ them out of
their communities to facilitate on behalf of a central org.

4. Delegate more. Delegate to community. Delegate /design/ and
/implementation/.

Our communities excel at self-organization, and rebel against
arbitrary mandates. Avoid language or policies that remove agency or
exaggerate staff-community division.

풲♡, SJ

Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266

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[Wikimedia-l] Episode 5 Inspiring Open Podcast episode is out

2022-05-16 Thread Florence Devouard

Hello

The Wiki Loves Women team launched a podcast a few weeks ago.
We have released 5 episodes so far, with a frequency of two episodes per
month.
All episodes are available on the usual podcast platforms, or may be
accessed on Wiki Loves Women website with additional notes about each
episode.

https://podcast.wikiloveswomen.org

The latest episode features Angela Lungati, current CEO of Ushaidi.

If you are interested to receive a brief message on your talk each time
a new episode is published, please drop your name here :
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Anthere

About Inspiring Open

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that celebrates the inspirational women whose careers and personal
ethics intersect with the Open movement. Each episode features a dynamic
woman from Africa who has pushed the boundaries of what it means to
build communities and succeed as a collective. As a podcast series, it
is available at anytime, anywhere to amplify the motivational stories of
each guest, as spoken in their own voice. Listen to their personal
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking

2022-04-26 Thread Florence Devouard


Hello


Ok, so viewing the IP is necessary. I added the barebone proposition on 
the meta page for futher refining.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:No_open_proxies/Unfair_blocking#On-wiki_feature
If anyone can edit the description to make it clearer, it would be great

Since you indicated seeing the IP is necessary, I have been wondering on 
steward pool


1) how do you truely evaluate/know of each steward activity or lack 
there of (steward activity). Probably easy to see the fully inactive 
ones (might not be wiki active anymore), or the super active ones. But 
for all those in-between how do you know the level of activity of 
the 40 or so ? I have looked at the past situation and see there are 
only 1-2 people removed for inactivity for most of the past few years. 
It seems a bit surprising to me.


2) Number of stewards has been more or less stable since 2009... the 
highest seem to have been 36. The lowest was 29 stewards in 2011. I am 
not sure how much the job has evolved since inception given the many 
roles added over time. But has the job been easier or more complicated 
since 2009 ? Is the current number of steward sufficient ?


3) I see the number of candidates has been fairly limited over the year. 
With a third to half of candidates rejected. 7 candidates in 2018 (2 
no), 14 candidates in 2019 (7 no), 10 candidates in 2021 (5 no), 7 
candidates in 2022 (2 no). Is this figure considered satisfactory to 
you, or would you be hoping for more good candidates ? Has the 
recruitement process been rather passive (simply posting an announcement 
to call for new candidates) or rather active (actively approaching 
potential candidates).



Flo


Le 22/04/2022 à 15:20, Rae Adimer via Wikimedia-l a écrit :

Hi Flo.

Viewing the IP address involved is necessary. There's a reason why 
Stewards and CheckUsers are generally the ones involved in handling 
IPBE requests. There's differences between people trying to use open 
proxies to edit through the Great Firewall of China, people caught in 
IPv4 blocks from CGNAT-using ISPs, people whose residential ranges are 
blocked as p2p proxies, and people who just want to edit with a proxy. 
Often there are rangeblocks with specific circumstances behind it, 
such as usage by LTAs or being a specific type of proxy. Knowing this 
background is necessary.


It would be incredibly helpful if there was a way to send in IPBE 
requests on-wiki and for Stewards to be able to respond to it on-wiki, 
confidentially. Where those affected can input the affected IP address 
and reason, and Stewards can answer the queue there quickly and 
easily. We can handle the quantity of requests if the process is workable.


I'm also wondering who the people discussed with privately are. Your 
suggestion here is one of the most feasible I've seen, and as far as I 
can tell there are very few people asking Stewards directly for input 
on this. I've seen a lot of comments which are misinformed about what 
is happening, why, and what is a feasible fix.


My message on the Meta-Wiki page outlines my views on this. Optimally, 
the WMF would discuss with Stewards ways to create a better system for 
this, and implement it. New problems, old tech.


Best regards,
Rae



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On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 8:43 AM Florence Devouard 
 wrote:


I have read all the comments and discussed privately with a few
people.

There are some elements of answers that are purely in the hands of
stewards, they have to discuss and find common grounds, in
particular to implementing blocks, so that they limit damage on
good people, whilst preserving the projects from vandals.

However, the general observation is that the current system to
report an unfair block to stewards and get unblocked by them is
largely broken.
1) process is not simple to understand by the user
2) complicated to implement on the steward side (requires back and
forth discussion, checking legitimacy of request, copy pasting
information etc.)
3) the steward pool of volunteers is limited, whilst the stewards
willing to do that job is even smaller (I heard the VRT queue is
overflowing)
4) the process reveals IP private info
All this creates a bottleneck.

There is one path we could explore, a feature to simplify the
process of "adding legitimate users" to the Global IPblock
exemptions list, in a process inspired from the Global renamers one.
* new functionary role (eg Global IPblock exempters) : populated
by stewards, or people appointed by steward
* interface directly on wiki (bypass of VRT, bypass of copy
pasting between tools)
* a process which would NOT require revealing the IP address to
the functionary (it is sufficient tha

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking

2022-04-22 Thread Florence Devouard


I have read all the comments and discussed privately with a few people.

There are some elements of answers that are purely in the hands of 
stewards, they have to discuss and find common grounds, in particular to 
implementing blocks, so that they limit damage on good people, whilst 
preserving the projects from vandals.


However, the general observation is that the current system to report an 
unfair block to stewards and get unblocked by them is largely broken.

1) process is not simple to understand by the user
2) complicated to implement on the steward side (requires back and forth 
discussion, checking legitimacy of request, copy pasting information etc.)
3) the steward pool of volunteers is limited, whilst the stewards 
willing to do that job is even smaller (I heard the VRT queue is 
overflowing)

4) the process reveals IP private info
All this creates a bottleneck.

There is one path we could explore, a feature to simplify the process of 
"adding legitimate users" to the Global IPblock exemptions list, in a 
process inspired from the Global renamers one.
* new functionary role (eg Global IPblock exempters) : populated by 
stewards, or people appointed by steward
* interface directly on wiki (bypass of VRT, bypass of copy pasting 
between tools)
* a process which would NOT require revealing the IP address to the 
functionary (it is sufficient that the system recognise the person is 
blocked in relationship with an Open Proxy/TOR stuff)
* a process which could provide info to the functionary to very quickly 
assess whether the person is a legitimate editor or not (every person 
fighting vandalism know how to do that... display last contribs... block 
log... number of edits... etc. or simply direct links to those info to 
simplify the functionary job)
* a process allowing various "unblocking" options, day, weeks, indef 
listing, pretty much as the blocking feature permit, so as to grant 
indef listing to the super trustworthy individuals, and a time limited 
listing to those more questionnable
* add a checkbox system where requesters can give pre-loaded reasons for 
their asking (edit-a-thons etc.), which will help make the system 
multilingual and language neutral for the functionary (in most cases, no 
need to discuss with the user)
* add any feature necessary to limit the risk of vandals abusing the 
feature (forced loging before submitting the request, capcha stuff)


In short, simply make the "add to the Global IP block exemption list" 
process fluid with removal of the current bottle neck (stewards), which 
in turn will be able to focus on more important security issues.



Is there any reasons why this would technically and socially not work ?

Flo


Le 22/04/2022 à 13:25, Rae Adimer via Wikimedia-l a écrit :

Hi all,

About unblocking IPs that geolocate to Africa, it’s not as though the 
blocked IPs are random. The problem with these affected ISPs are that 
they have many users on the same IP address. They aren’t traditional 
proxies (and traditional proxies will not be unblocked, that isn’t the 
issue here), they’re just poorly managed ISPs. I’m not even sure if 
there would be more vandalism from unblocking these ISPs, and I think 
it should be done.


“Smart blocking” would be a bad idea. It would take *a lot* of work to 
implement and would be a net harm to our ability to deal with abuse. I 
am strongly opposed to creating this. Also remember to a large extent 
the issue with these IPs isn’t a range, it’s that there’s multiple 
users on the *same* IP.


Regarding IPBE, the issue isn’t that we’re declining requests, it’s 
that we don’t get to them in a timely manner. There are a lot of 
requests.


I’ve tried to clear up a number of other misconceptions in a comment 
on the Meta-Wiki page as well.


Best regards,
Rae

On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 07:03 WereSpielChequers 
 wrote:


Yesterday I was on a conference call that included several
Nigerian Wikipedians, I was surprised at how much of their
problems editing Wikipedia were over blocks.

The English language Wikipedia doesn't have an overall problem
with editing numbers, nearly eight years on, editing volumes are
still clearly above the 2014 minima. But we do have huge
geographic skews and in particular we badly underrepresent the
English speaking parts of Africa in our community and in our
Projects. I don't know if other languages have similar issues, but
it would not surprise me.

I get that lowering our guard overall against IP vandals would
increase the workload of  those who'd rather be improving
Wikipedia than clearing up after vandals. But there are a couple
of things that could fairly easily be done if we  want a more
global community.

Firstly, unblock IPs that geolocate to countries where we lack
contributors.Yes we will get more vandalism in those countries,
but far far less than if we also unblocked all IPs in countries
where we have lots of editors.

[Wikimedia-l] Open proxies and IP blocking

2022-04-20 Thread Florence Devouard

Hello friends

Short version : We need to find solutions to avoid so many africans
being globally IP blocked due to our No Open Proxies policy.

*https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/No_open_proxies/Unfair_blocking*

Long version :

I'd like to raise attention on an issue, which has been getting worse in
the past couple of weeks/months.

Increasing number of editors getting blocked due to the No Open Proxies
policy [1]

In particular africans.

In February 2004, the decision was made to block open proxies on Meta
and all other Wikimedia projects.

According to theno open proxiespolicy : Publicly available proxies
(including paid proxies) may be blocked for any period at any time.
While this may affect legitimate users, they are not the intended
targets and may freely use proxies until those are blocked [...]

Non-static IP addresses or hosts that are otherwise not permanent
proxies should typically be blocked for a shorter period of time, as it
is likely the IP address will eventually be transferred or dynamically
reassigned, or the open proxy closed. Once closed, the IP address should
be unblocked.

According to the policy page, « the Editors can be permitted to edit by
way of an open proxy with the IP block exempt flag. This is granted on
local projects by administrators and globally by stewards. »

I repeat -> ... legitimate users... may freely use proxies until
those are blocked. the Editors can be permitted to edit by way of an
open proxy with the IP block exempt flag <-- it is not illegal to
edit using an open proxy

Most editors though... have no idea whatsoever what an open proxy is.
They do not understand well what to do when they are blocked.

In the past few weeks, the number of African editors reporting being
blocked due to open proxy has been VERY significantly increasing.

New editors just as old timers.
Unexperienced editors but also staff members, president of usergroups,
organizers of edit-a-thons and various wikimedia initiatives.
At home, but also during events organized with usergroup members or
trainees, during edit-a-thons, photo uploads sessions etc.

It is NOT the occasional highly unlikely situation. This has become a
regular occurence.
There are cases and complains every week. Not one complaint per week.
Several complaints per week.
*This is irritating. This is offending. This is stressful. This is
disrupting activities organized in _good faith_ by _good people_,
activities set-up with _our donors funds. _**And the disruption**is
primarlly taking place in a geographical region supposingly to be
nurtured (per our strategy for diversity, equity, inclusion blahblahblah). *

The open proxy policy page suggests that, should a person be unfairly
blocked, it is recommended

* * to privately email stewards(_AT_)wikimedia.org.
* * or alternatively, to post arequest (if able to edit, if the editor
doesn't mind sharing their IP for global blocks or their reasons to
desire privacy (for Tor usage)).
* * the current message displayed to the blocked editor also suggest
contacting User:Tks4Fish. This editor is involved in vandalism
fighting and is probably the user blocking open proxies IPs the
most. See log

So...
Option 1: contacting stewards : it seems that they are not answering. Or
not quickly. Or requesting lengthy justifications before adding people
to IP block exemption list.
Option 2: posting a request for unblock on meta. For those who want to
look at the process, I suggest looking at it [3] and think hard about
how a new editor would feel. This is simply incredibly complicated

Option 3 : user:TksFish answers... sometimes...

As a consequence, most editors concerned with those global blocks...
stay blocked several days.

We do not know know why the situation has rapidly got worse recently.
But it got worse. And the reports are spilling all over.

We started collecting negative experiences on this page [4].
Please note that people who added their names here are not random
newbies. They are known and respected members of our community, often
leaders of activities and/or representant of their usergroups, who are
confronted to this situation on a REGULAR basis.

I do not know how this can be fixed. Should we slow down open proxy
blocking ? Should we add a mecanism and process for an easier and
quicker IP block exemption process post-blocking ? Should we improve a
process for our editors to pre-emptively be added to this IP block
exemption list ? Or what ? I do not know what's the strategy to fix
that. But there is a problem. Who should that problem be addressed to ?
Who has solutions ?

Flo

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/No_open_proxies

[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/Tks4Fish

[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_requests/Global_permissions#Requests_for_global_IP_block_exemption

*[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/No_open_proxies/Unfair_blocking*

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Collection / Special:Book usage

2022-04-19 Thread Florence Devouard

Le 17/04/2022 à 09:59, Amir E. Aharoni a écrit :

> On Sun, Apr 17, 2022, 09:29 Strainu  wrote:
> >
> > The correct question is: does it still do anything of value?
> ‫בתאריך יום א׳, 17 באפר׳ 2022 ב-10:42 מאת ‪Jan Ainali‬‏ 
<‪ainali@gmail.com‬‏>:‬

>
> Even with all output options broken it is still a decent user 
interface for creating and organizing collections of articles.

This may well be true, but I'm wondering how much is it *actually* 
used. I know I never use it, but it's possible that thousand of other 
people do. If it's true, then everything is fine. I can't find a log 
of its usage, or a statistics page that shows how often do people use 
this feature.

If it was working, I would use it.

Instead, I do "print a page" for each article, then "save as pdf" for 
each instead of printing, then I merge pdf manually to make the booklet...

This week, we shall do that with about 100 pages from Vikidia, manually 
collecting them, generating a pdf for each, then merging all pdf, to 
create the jury report document for the WikiChallenge contest.

And every year, I look at the special:book feature and I sigh heavily.

Florence

It currently appears in at least two prominent places:
1. "Create a book" link in the desktop sidebar (in some wikis; I don't 
see it in the English Wikipedia, but I do see it in Swedish and Basque).
2. "Extensions used by Wikimedia - Main" group in translatewiki.net 
, which means that volunteer localizers are 
asked to translate it with (relatively) high priority.

If only, say, five people use it in the whole Wikimedia universe, then 
perhaps someone should consider downgrading its prominence or maybe 
removing it entirely.

On translatewiki, I can move it from "Extensions used by Wikimedia - 
Main" to "Extensions used by Wikimedia - Advanced" or even to 
"Extensions used by Wikimedia - Legacy", but again, before I do this, 
I'd like to make sure that it's not actually used by a lot of people.

--
Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
‪“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬

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[Wikimedia-l] Announcing a new podcast, Inspiring Open

2022-04-11 Thread Florence Devouard


Hello everyone

_Short version : _
we launched a new podcast in March. *From tech gurus to authors, 
educators to activists, the Inspiring Open podcast draws wisdom and 
insights from women who intersect the 'open movement' and inspire with 
their thoughts and actions. On all your favorite podcast plateform, go 
listen to amazing women (including recently our own Maryana)*


https://podcast.wikiloveswomen.org


_Longer version : _


*

The Wiki Loves Women team decided a few months ago to launch a new 
podcast. With projects across Africa and the Middle East empowering 
women with the tools and platforms to be heard, we have accumulated a 
vault of interesting tales from dynamic women who push the boundaries of 
what it means to build community and succeed as a collective.


*

**

**

*

The stories and ideas behind successful African women will be shared for 
the next few months in the Inspiring Open 
Podcast<https://tr.fdske.com/ec/gABiOFRuUc_lYEdLjajuq4AvjKeZIKVrD9vmCd8_SUjDIAZXfqV7yxD8BAuYs_6mBC81oZWhO5F_oiMxYK8FWN0_lwANummUDiBq7CRz4rribz_clA71X2Lq46SPPZ4JhhKJQoga9UQlulYPZIgfU8Sy2zmOLfadfKP9qzxP_NQt20JbTs_prF9bW_GQSZqAa3vH4dXd1QW3jWaYfD2VgnbiSWw0G58OVQIlI-Nyual2AFC38LZ1D2NBWiUTULWWTRmwN-4TjgASKsk4AFgkQcgd4neoWkqSut9RgjcbjEhSQlHzNXN9E02e1NePwOwWLjEJLujKyrxzUR8WdXKmYUWA0Dm3nzbLrYELp-T0NZArnLj9VWk=>. 
From tech gurus to authors, educators to activists, the Inspiring Open 
podcast draws wisdom and insights from women who intersect the 'open 
movement' and inspire with their thoughts and actions.



**

*Episodes will be released every two weeks throughout 2022, for a total 
of 16 portraits of amazing women. The first two guests were released 
during March. They are:*


** ** Anie Akpe, founder of African Women In Tech (AWIT), an 
Africa-based organisation helping girls and women with education and 
mentorship within technology, as well as UX Diaspora, a unique community 
of people of colour in UX who are digitally migrating to educate, 
connect and inspire one another all over the world. ***


* Maryana Iskander, the Chief Executive Officer of the Wikimedia 
Foundation. With a proven track record for scaling complex organisations 
she has dedicated much of her work to breaking down systemic barriers of 
access to opportunity and education.


*Our newest episode is about *Maha Bali*, an open education 
innovator. Maha Bali comes from a family of medical doctors but she 
fancied studying computer science. This was not to last however, as it 
didn't gel with personality as an extrovert. She then made the happy 
option of becoming an educator **You may access the podcast on all 
the usual podcast plateforms. *


*As wikipedians, we have paid extra attention to details and worked hard 
to provide the most enjoyable experience. I invite you to have a look to 
the dedicated website : **https://podcast.wikiloveswomen.org*** Records 
are obviously freely licenced (including music), and a text-based 
version of the full interview is published * A fine artist have drawn 
portraits of our guests. Obviously all freely licenced * We have 
isolated interesting quotes for the immediate benefit of podcast 
addicts and long term benefit of Wikiquote :) * On the website, you 
may also access specific parts of each episode, reading suggestions and 
more *


Thanks !


Florence / Anthere


**

**

Inspiring Open is hosted by Betty Kankam-Boadu, co-founder of the Ghana 
Women Experts project that promotes women's voices for commentary in the 
media.Inspiring Open was created and produced by Wiki In Africa's Isla 
Haddow-Flood and Florence Devouard, produced by Rachel Zadok, and sound 
engineered by Jey at Melody Hub Studio, Accra, Ghana with portraits of 
each guest created by Candace di Talamo. The podcast was funded through 
the International Relief Fund for Organisations in Culture and Education 
2021, an initiative of the German Federal Foreign Office, the 
Goethe-Institut and other partners. Wiki In Africa is supported by the 
Wikimedia Foundation.



*


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[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month: We are back in 2022!

2022-02-24 Thread Florence Devouard

Thank you for your clarification Anton.

I fully agree with your last statement and it is indeed worth pointing
out that the articles related to Ukraine are likely to see a big
increase in readership. Your effort is definitly very important.

I hope everyone stays safe though. Those are very dark times.

Flo

Le 24/02/2022 à 13:49, Anton Protsiuk a écrit :
Hi. We at Wikimedia Ukraine are preparing a longer response to the
concerns raised here, but in brief:
* The challenge overall and the CentralNotice campaign in particular
were planned long before, as a general effort to enrich Wikipedia on
Ukraine-related topics, not as a specific political statement. Its
first edition was held last year within similar dates and advertised
similarly. Its idea first emerged back in 2018, and we've been
actively working to organize it since 2020.
* The challenge is supported by the Ukrainian government, but it has
no influence on the content of articles, and neither does Wikimedia
Ukraine. All participants have to follow relevant Wikipedia rules.
Organizers only provide suggested topics for the challenge and prizes
for most active participants (dependent on the level of activity, not
the content of articles they created), as well as contribute to
promotion efforts. Hopefully, we'll be able to ship physical prizes
despite the Russian aggression; otherwise, we'll find other ways to
award winners.
* On a personal note – advancing free knowledge by creating and
expanding Wikipedia articles is a powerful tool to fight
authoritarianism and unfreedom. Regardless of whether you want to
support Ukraine (as I think the world should do), developing free
knowledge in all ways compatible with Wikipedia principles and rules
is the goal we're all united around.

Best Regards
Anton Protsiuk
Programs Coordinator at Wikimedia Ukraine

On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 2:30 PM Andy Mabbett
wrote:

On Thu, 24 Feb 2022 at 00:58, 4nn1l2 <4nn1l2.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The timing of this campaign is of real concern and not prudent,
I think, especially for those of us who strive for neutrality.

Neutrality doesn't mean we pander to aggressors. HTH.

--
Andy Mabbett

@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia payroll and related (WAS: Re: Media coverage in Germany: Enterprise / Advocacy)

2022-01-30 Thread Florence Devouard

WMF started in Florida in 2004 (no staff). First staff was probably in 
2005 (Brion could confirm), with no office.
We had a handful staff in 2006 (around 5-8), with a 2-3 rooms office 
(not all staff was over there). Around May/June 2007, we hired Sue for a 
6 months term contract. After 6 months, she was made permanent (December 
2007). The move to SA was in 2008.


And no, employee expenses were not housed in Bomis. We clearly had 
already separated from Bomis some years before.



Flo

Le 31/01/2022 à 01:44, Nathan a écrit :
I suspect there weren't that many FT employees of the WMF in 2008, if 
any? If I remember, WMF started that year based in Florida and moved 
sometime during the year. Could be that employee expenses were housed 
in Bomis or ledgered as something other than a labor expense.


On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 4:33 PM Chris Keating 
 wrote:




On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 1:25 PM Andreas Kolbe 
wrote:


Cost per employee   28796   39801   51133 73896 84781 86493
 102053  106065  116726  131734  140419  149155


I find it hard to believe that the WMF's average cost per employee
has increased from $28,796 in 2008 to $149,155 in 2019. That does
not seem credible to me. The figure is remarkably low in 2008 and
remarkably high in 2019. Perhaps there is something else happening
in the data?
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Whose Knowledge? User Group annual report 2020-21

2022-01-30 Thread Florence Devouard

Thank you for the report Mariana. I found it very useful to get a better
sense of Whose Knowledge in 2021 !
And congrats for the great work done in spite of last year challenges.
Looking forward to the State of the Internet's languages

Flo

Le 27/01/2022 à 17:28, mari...@whoseknowledge.org a écrit :

Hello everyone!

The annual report of Whose Knowledge? User Group is available in Meta. We are
glad to share with all of you our journey from September 2020 to September 2021.

Please find the report here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Whose_Knowledge%3F/Reports/2021

We recognize that 2021 was a year to build up resilience after all that 2020
brought to us and our communities. Even though we continued to face the effects
of Covid-19, and of other intersecting pandemics of racism, patriarchy, and the
climate crisis, we also started to get our strength back and to embrace the
future with joy and hope:

- Whose Knowledge? celebrated five mighty years of its existence in Sep 2021
with a special social media campaign.
- WK? incorporated in the State of CA, as a public benefit corporation in June
2021. We have worked with our esteemed Board in the last few months as well, to
move WK? in the direction of its mission.
- The #VisibleWikiWomen campaign 2021 brought over 1700 images to Wikimedia
Commons, illustrating pages in 38 different Wikipedia languages.
- We have successfully designed and developed a fully tailored website that
will present the State of the Internet's Languages report to our wide audience
in a user-friendly manner.
- We hosted a multilingual event on Decolonising Structured Data as a
pre-WikidataCon event and we did a keynote at WikidataCon itself.

You can learn more about our activities, access the materials and resources
created, and see photos and presentations in the full report.

In the next few weeks we will be sharing a multilingual, accessible and
multimedia website for the State of the Internet's Languages, and we will
launch our next #VisibleWikiWomen campaign. Stay tuned through our website
(https://whoseknowledge.org/), social media channels (@whoseknowledge on
Twitter, Instagram and Facebook) and consider subscribing to our newsletter
(https://whoseknowledge.org/join/), or reach out us in our discussion page on
Meta (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Whose_Knowledge%3F).

In solidarity,

Mariana and the Whose Knowledge? team
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Words from Wikiquotes... The wisdom of 2,432 women made visible via WikiQuote :)

2022-01-30 Thread Florence Devouard



Le 28/01/2022 à 15:52, Camelia Boban a écrit :

Hi Florence, Isla and others,
Thank you for the announcement.

In the name of my affiliate, WikiDonne User Group, who organized the 
campaign in Italian Wikiquote, I want to thank the itwikiquote 
community which, for the second time, answered with a great 
enthusiasm. For the gadgets we offered, we chose a quote of a great 
women poet: ἰοίην (our Greek friends can say more, but as I know, the 
translation is /that I can go further/) the only word left of a poem 
written by Sappho. Maybe the richest word in hope that can exist.


This event and the previous one, helped on increasing the project 
content, so with 42.389 articles, Italian became the first language in 
Wikiquote.



Woohoo ! I had not realized that :)




I encourage all you to try to edit Wikiquote and learn the other how 
to do it,  you will find a lot of fun. It is also a good option to 
engage new editors and an easier way to start edit the Wikimedia projects.


Totally second that.

Florence

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[Wikimedia-l] Words from Wikiquotes... The wisdom of 2,432 women made visible via WikiQuote :)

2022-01-28 Thread Florence Devouard


We just published the results of the #SheSaid campaign

;tldr
During the SheSaid Drive hosted end of 2021, nine different language 
communities created 1500+ entries about notable *women* on *Wikiquote*. 
+ some entries improved. + Wikipedia articles created.

We rock ;)
All data, info, how to join, next drive : 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Women/SheSaid


++

;Long version

Wiki Loves Women’s 2021 #SheSaid campaign was launched in October. 
SheSaid is a drive that encourages *an increase in visibility for 
notable women’s voices online by adding their notable quotes to various 
language WikiQuote sites.*


For 2021, nine different language communities contributed –*Italian, 
Ukrainian, English, Tagalog, Igbo, Spanish, French, Central Bikol, and 
Catalan*. In addition to the global drive, 12 members of Wiki Loves 
Women’s Focus Group held local training and participation drives with 
their communities.


Across the 9 language Wikiquotes a collective of*1,514 articles were 
created*. This ensures that 1,514 notable women whose voices and wisdom 
had previously not been featured, can now be easily accessed. Articles 
for a further*309 women were improved*. In addition,*638 
articles*featuring notable women were created onKinyarwanda Wikipedia 
(/Wikipediya mu Kinyarwanda/) 
by the activities of the Wiki 
Loves Women Focus Group member in Rwanda in collaboration with Wikimedia 
Rwanda Usergroup.


The Italian language community through the enthusiasm of theWiki Donne 
user 
groupwasagain 
the most outstanding contributor to the SheSaid Campaign. This community 
created articles about 609 women and improved a further 227 articles. 
The next prolific contender, the Tagalog language community (currently 
in incubator status) created 308new articles. The third highest 
contributing language community was to the English language Wikiquote by 
creating 156 articles and improving a further 18 articles. The drive is 
also the opportunity to add structure to Wikiquote in creating relevant 
categories to host all those entries.


Below are the stats impact for the SheSaid Campaign across 9 different 
languages that participated in 2021;


 * SheSaid onItalian Wikiquote
   :609 new
   articles
   ,227
   improved articles
   
 * Tagalog Wikquote
   :
   308 new articles (currently inTagalog
   
incubator)
 * SheSaid on Ukrainian Wikiquote
   
:
   169 new articles, 55 improved articles
 * SheSaid on English Wikiquote
   : 156 new
   articles and 18 improved articles
 * SheSaid on the Central Bikol Wikquote
   
:
   138 new articles (currently in incubator status)
 * SheSaid on French Wikiquote
   : 65 new
   articles and 7 Improved articles
 * SheSaid o n Igbo
   Wikiquote incubator
   :
   40 new articles
 * SheSaid on the Catalan Wikiquote
   : 20 new
   articles and 2 improved articles
 * SheSaid on the Spanish wikiquote
   
:
   9 new articles

The lack of women’s voices in the digital domain is a global issue, one 
that we can collective work on in order to change how women are viewed. 
By hosting drives such as Wiki Loves Women’s SheSaid campaign, Wikimedia 
groups focused on gender help to right this historical imbalance whilst 
growing communities as they learn how to contribute.


We are awed by the response and enthusiasm to the second edition of this 
drive, and looks forward to the third version in 2022!


We urge that anyone can join this initiative and continue to make an 
impact by adding more articles about women.


All data, info, how to join, next drive : 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Women/SheSaid
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[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Meta, WikiMedia, and the Hewlett Foundation partner with Africa No Filter

2021-12-08 Thread Florence Devouard


Hello


Got that in my mailbox today.
I had known that for a few days because it had been displayed on ANF 
website and been the object of an ANF previous email a few days ago 
about a partnership between Wikimedia Foundation / ANF / African Union 
to fix the gap related to African representation. So it is not really a 
surprise to ME, but...


On one hand, it is a good news to see the big organisations get involved.

On the other hand... there are a few points bugging me and I wanted to 
share just that.



ANF has been announcing those partnerships for several days on their 
networks.
But from WMF... I see a complete silence. No announcement in the lists, 
nor in the grant space, nor on diff, nor to the affiliates impacted by 
this announcement;
Nothing. No mention of an Africa Knowledge Initiative on meta either. 
Nothing at all.



The total silence from WMF raises questions and concerns in my mind. 
Such as :


1) Is that partnership real and known from the Wikimedia Foundation ?

2) If it is, why is Wikimedia Foundation not informing the community 
about what seems to be a significant partnership ?
Is it that in truth no one at WMF cares about this partnership ? Or is 
it by fear of community reaction ? Or is it a wish to not have local 
groups involved at all ?


3) What's the role of the Wikimedia Foundation in that partnership ?
Is it just allowing ANF to use the Wikipedia brand ? Is Wikimedia 
Foundation providing a grant to ANF ? Is Wikimedia Foundation providing 
staff time to ANF ? Is Wikimedia Foundation offering volunteer time from 
the communities or facilitating recruitement of cheap labour ? Is 
Wikimedia Foundation planning to provide networking support in 
connecting ANF to the communities and usergroups ?


What is WMF role in this ?

4) When Usergroup Affiliates are approved, a thorough review of their 
request is made to avoid any situation of overlapping activities with 
the other usergroups. And once approved, there is a concern that they 
have to coordinate and inform about overlapping activities.
Clearly, the WMF is here officially supporting a collection of 
initiatives that will overlap with already existing activities and could 
impact existing usergroups. However, WMF did not inquire of existing 
groups opinion on such a partnership, nor did it actually sought to 
simply inform them. Did WMF tried to involve the impacted parties ?


In short, in a spirit of collaboration and shared mission... would not 
that be expected that impacted communities be informed/polled/or even 
involved ?


5) In the past few months, I have seen WMF staff increasingly get 
directly involved into Content Projects. It seems that WMF staff who 
once where busy developing tools to support the communities, are now 
rather spending time creating, leading or facilitating content projects. 
I suppose there are benefits to doing that. And do not misunderstand me, 
I appreciate every staff member involved in such effort and recognise 
their skills.
But when WMF staff move from support function to Content Projects 
leadership, it also can have detrimental consequences in our ecosystem, 
such as inequity in resources access between projects organized by WMF 
and projects organized by community members (*). It can have detrimental 
consequences in decreasing the opportunities for community members to 
take on leadership roles. It can have detrimental consequences in making 
WMF appear like a content producer.


My question would be... is this shift in WMF staff activities ... simply 
due to the lack of leadership at WMF level for the past months... or is 
it an deliberate move ?



Sorry, long rant today... but seeing the meta-name thiefs associated 
with our brand was the last drop ...



Florence

PS: I have examples...


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*8 December, Accra*: Narrative change organisation, Africa No Filter, 
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[Wikimedia-l] Photographic Contest Wiki Loves Africa 2022

2021-12-03 Thread Florence Devouard

Hello everyone

Wiki Loves Africa launches again in 2022!

Our 2022 theme will be Home + Habitat.

Another amazing opportunity to submit photos, videos or audios that will
this year celebrate Home+Habitat across Africa!
To have a better idea of what can be covered by the theme, check out
this page :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2022/Theme

We plan to launch at the same time than last year, Feb 15th.

Whilst it seems we are back in touch very early on (nearly 3 months in
advance), it is to give the time to interested parties to organize
themselves.
As a reminder, everyone can participate to WLA, as long as it is on the
theme and related to Africa.

Contrariwise to contests such as WLM, there is no notion of "registered
countries". It is possible to participate from the entire African
continent and beyond. However, every year, some african teams
auto-organize to propose a program in their region or country around the
photo contest. Such program can include training sessions, photo-walks,
edit-a-thons, photo upload sessions, press conferences, ceremonies for
national winners. The key point is flexibility. A group of two people
will not do as much as a group of 15 people. A group may have grand
ideas with many activities whilst another group will simply organize a
photo-walk. Another will simply do some buzz on social media. The choice
is entirely the group decision and any participation will be welcome.

HOW YOU CAN HELP (even if you are not african and/or not living in Africa)

1) you may participate to the contest
- if you have relevant pictures on your hard drive,
- or if visit Africa in the next 3 months, or
- if you go to museums/festivals relevant to this year theme.

2) you may volunteer to help organize the contest. Typically, we are
ALWAYS looking for people to
- translate the meta pages or the Commons pages in French, Arabic and
Portuguese in particular

- join the jurys (national and international)
- review the images, categorize them, label them as best images etc.
- help on social media to promote the contest
- etc.

There is a organizing portal on meta with lot's of information :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2022

And a telegram group : https://t.me/+Smc82PP53yscNUIs

ACTIVITY FUNDING

When a group decides to host activities, it may need some funding.
Funding can be obtained through different means, and in particular
through rapid grants requests.
What is important is that... to have a chance to have the funds in time
for the contest, it is required to submit a Rapid Grant application now.
The Rapid grants application deadline is 15th December.

To best support you, this year, the Wiki Loves Africa team propose
Office Hours in the next two weeks. 2 will be hosted in English and 2
will be in French. More meetings will be organized early 2022, but those
December Office Hours are primarily meant to help you if you need
support to submit a Rapid Grant to Wikimedia Foundation. If you can not
join one of those, we can always help on the Telegram Channel. Do not
hesitate to ask for feedback and advice.

WLA Rapid Grants Office Hours:
•In English, Saturday 4th December 2021 (10:00 AM UTC+2)
•In French, Monday 6th December 2021 (12:00 PM UTC+1)
•In English, Monday 13th December 2021 (17:00 UTC+2)
•In French, Wednesday 15th December 2021 (18:00 UTC+1)

Details: https://bit.ly/3d5wIvY

Florence for the team
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Summit 2022

2021-10-18 Thread Florence Devouard

Hello

Thank you for this information Nicole.

I think it is important for the other conference organizers to be aware
of this change so that they anticipate with regards to calendar (right
now... for example... wikiarabia, wikiindaba and wikiconvention
francophone are already quite packed).

Otherwise, a meeting for the drafting committee looks like a very good
idea to me.

Flo

Le 18/10/2021 à 16:29, Nicole Ebber a écrit :

Hi everyone,

We have some good and some bad news for you. First, the bad news:

Wikimedia Deutschland will not host the Wikimedia Summit in April
2022. We believe that the global pandemic will not allow for safe and
equitable travel for participants, especially from regions outside of
Europe and North America.

The good news is twofold:
We will not cancel but postpone the Summit, and are currently aiming
for the second half of the year, around September 2022. We will
continue working with the Wikimedia Foundation on the next steps and
keep you all updated about the situation. We surely look very much
forward to welcoming many of you to Berlin in the not too distant
future.

On top of that, we are in conversations with the Movement Strategy and
Governance team at the Wikimedia Foundation about the possibility to
use the originally blocked dates (1-3 April 2022) for a working
meeting of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee in Berlin. This
meeting could be complemented by some online auditoria, additional
hybrid sessions, where the committee could collect insights and
feedback from across the movement.

There is really not more to share about this right now, but we wanted
to make sure to provide an early update on what we are currently
thinking and talking about. More information will be shared in the
coming weeks and months, so please stay tuned.

All the best
Nicole

[Wikimedia-l] Women, Wikiquote, SheSaid Launch, and Nigeria Independence Day...

2021-10-01 Thread Florence Devouard


Good idea !

I have created two (very meager to be honest) entries on Wikiquote (in 
French and in English) about a Nigerian lady, Anie Akpe.
(She has no Wikipedia article, just saying, maybe worth checking if she 
is notable enough ;) )




This is the perfect opportunity to promote the SheSaid drive starting 
today (for two months)


For those who do not know the #SheSaid drive (second edition), this is 
about giving a bit of love to Wikiquote, and to balance the gender gap 
at the same time.


So if you want to do something super cool for wikiquote, for women and 
for Nigeria today... all in one package...


> go create an entry about a Nigerian women today on Wikiquote... 
hashtags #shesaid #NG


https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Women/SheSaid


Anthere

PS: Love you ❤️ Shola ;)


Le 01/10/2021 à 09:59, Olushola Olaniyan a écrit :


Reminder!!!

Hello friends

Today is the Nigeria  independence day anniversary, join us across the 
globe to celebrate the birth of our Nation by editing any Nigeria 
related articles in your language on @Wikipedia and please add #NG to 
your summary.


Let's do it together .

We love ❤️ you all!!!

Olushola Olaniyan
President  Wikimedia User Group Nigeria


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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming the new Wikimedia Foundation CEO

2021-09-15 Thread Florence Devouard


Welcome Maryana

I am pleased to hear about your joining us and I would like to send my 
thanks to the board and the transition committee.
We have indeed a lot of expectations and hope. I look forward to have 
the opportunity to discuss with you during the Listening Tour ;)



Florence / Anthere


Le 14/09/2021 à 17:35, Maryana Iskander a écrit :


Dear All,

Thank you for this opportunity to introduce myself to you.

When I read the job position [1] for the next leader of Wikimedia 
Foundation, I noticed that it opened with a seemingly simple 
statement: “Knowledge belongs to all of us.” Does it, really? It’s a 
striking statement. In an increasingly unequal and polarizing world, 
one in which almost nothing belongs to all of us, the idea that 
knowledge /must /belong to all is enough to capture anyone’s attention 
and imagination – certainly mine.


My story is shaped by a twin belief that knowledge can also set us 
free. Shortly after I was born in Cairo, Egypt, my parents left for 
the United States. During my time at university, graduate school, and 
law school, I was consistently pulled towards some of society’s 
toughest issues – women’s rights, civil rights, and the rights of 
prisoners. I was equally pulled by the need to be effective in making 
change – seeking out leadership positions and raising my hand and 
voice to change the institutions of power, not just protest against 
them. I learned that the opportunity to make meaningful impact often 
sits ‘in-between’ traditional spheres: in-between research and 
teaching at Rice University, in-between healthcare delivery and 
advocacy at Planned Parenthood, and in-between government and the 
private sector at Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator. My time at 
all of these organisations required listening to and learning from 
many diverse stakeholders – including volunteers – and using my 
position of leadership to champion often unheard voices.


In 2012, I followed my heart to South Africa and its very complicated 
society – a legacy of apartheid perpetuating deep inequality despite 
the resilience of communities full of potential and hope, and a 
country with one of the highest youth unemployment rates in the world. 
A new organisation had just been formed with a big vision to close 
this opportunity gap. I signed up, first as an unpaid volunteer, and 
then for many years as the CEO. My job has been to cultivate a common 
space of trust for the collective assets of the society – from 
government, the private sector, civil society, and millions of young 
people – to work in a coalition to tackle one of the most daunting 
challenges of our time. To do this, we relied on an inclusive, 
multi-channel platform that leverages all forms of technology as a way 
to serve communities still riddled by a basic lack of access. Our 
successes came from the power of connection, partnership, and a 
collective belief that young people are the solution, not the problem. 
As I began my tenth year, I felt it was time to make space for new 
leaders.


Why am I joining the Wikimedia Foundation at this moment? There are 
many reasons: (1) this collective of projects is growing what is 
perhaps the most important commons infrastructure of our modern world. 
I am excited to add my time and talents to this vision. What will it 
take to create – not just imagine – a world in which every single 
human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge? (2) I have 
experienced first-hand that distributed leadership models can usually 
achieve more than any group of people can do on their own. I am eager 
to support processes that will make this even more true for our 
movement; and (3) I am drawn to working with people of integrity and 
commitment, who also appreciate humor and joy. I can already see that 
I will meet new colleagues like this from all over the world.


My former colleagues will say that I believe progress is enabled by 
culture: one that is founded on accountability, diversity and 
inclusion in all its forms, and a way of working led by values. It has 
informed an organisational humility in working with others and a 
relentless focus on getting things done the right way – while doing 
the right thing.


During the recruitment process, I met with a leading academic in the 
United States named Rebecca. She told me a story of her primary school 
teacher asking the students to raise their hands if they did not have 
an encyclopedia at home. She was one of those students, and it made 
her feel, for the first time, that maybe she didn’t have equal access 
to the resources needed for her education.  The work of this 
collective community, should we achieve our vision, will make it 
unnecessary for a teacher to ever ask that question again. I then 
returned to South Africa and spoke to another Rebecca. This young 
woman grew up in a rural area where it was a struggle to afford text 
messaging, never mind any meaningful access to the digital world. She, 
too, did

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wiki Loves Africa's 2021 Winners announced outside Wikimedia community

2021-08-30 Thread Florence Devouard


Thanks for your on-going support Camelia !

Cheers

Florence


Le 30/08/2021 à 16:43, Camelia Boban a écrit :

Hi Isla & Florence & Ceslause,
congratulations to the participants, you - the organizers - and the 
jury team. Are wonderful images.

I will be happy to share that news on our social channels.

Camelia, WikiDonne

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Il giorno lun 30 ago 2021 alle ore 15:49 Isla Haddow-Flood 
mailto:islahad...@gmail.com>> ha scritto:


Hello all

We are very excited to announce the winners of Wiki Loves Africa
2021. Due to a permissions issue (that is now resolved - thanks
Commons heroes!) we had to delay the external announcement of Wiki
Loves Africa's 2021 winners.

As you will see on the official announcement


 [1]
there is so much to celebrate in the full collection but the
winners really do shine, and show why Commons and the Wikimedia
projects are so important. If you are interested, dig into the
information here …

Social media channels:
• Facebook page  [2]
• Twitter  [3]
• Instagram  [4]
• YouTube playlist


[5]
• Social media hashtag : #wikilovesafrica #wikilovesafrica21
#celebrateAfrica
We would really appreciate it if you would share the news!! And if
you are interested in exploring further, please take a look at the:

  * Press release


[6]
  * Press kit


[7]

Wiki Loves Africa could not happen without the tireless input and
energy from the Wikimedia communities, user groups and enthusiasts
across Africa and beyond. Thank you, thank you for your incredible
enthusiasm.

The international jury this year was made up of a heady balance of
Commonists and professional photographers. Your dedication, time
and experience was invaluable. I hope I have covered all of the
time and effort in this detailed jury repor

t
[8].

You can get a chance to meet the winners and hear about other
participants in the project on Friday's WikiAfrica Hour - details
on Meta here
 [9].

(A similar release in French will happen during the course of this
week!)

Speak soon,

warmest regards
Isla, and Flo and Ceslause


[1]

https://www.wikilovesafrica.net/the-universal-human-experience-celebrated-in-wiki-loves-africas-photo-competition-on-wikipedia/


[2] https://www.facebook.com/wikilovesafrica

[3] https://www.twitter.com/wikilovesafric

[4] https://www.twitter.com/wikilovesafrica

[5]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeiU2ZGuQDg=PLvyE0yEt-BKgEUM5QlcQOwsMtpbWCbsnA


[6]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B6WwjdWVtuk_n4lxFYfk2BzxbedWdGI-/view?usp=sharing



[7]https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GPYaBMDiSfKTlMAp0JfJAuYVwM5eP3xp?usp=sharing


[8]

https://www.wikilovesafrica.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Wiki-Loves-Africa-2021-Jury-Report-1.pdf


[9] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiAfrica_Hour/Episodes

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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming María Sefidari as a Foundation consultant. :)

2021-06-24 Thread Florence Devouard

I believe Jan-Bart post reflect my perspective on the topic. I second.

Florence

PS: I will point out though... for historical perspective, that a rather
similar situation happened in the early years of the WMF, when Eric
Moeller chose to resign from his position as board member to be hired by
Sue Gartner as Deputy Director. The board was not involved in the
discussion, but was put in front of the "fait-accompli". But those were
early days.

Le 24/06/2021 à 16:43, Jan-Bart de Vreede a écrit :

Hey

So with all due respect and sympathy for the individuals involved and
me being unwilling to hurt people I feel it would be worse for me just
keep quiet.

The Foundation is supposed to be an example of good Governance for our
entire movement. We (as a movement) have come a long way in the past
20 years (and that is important: as our organisation and budget grows,
so do our responsibilities and the critical questions we get from the
world)

My personal opinion with regards to this announcement it comes down to
this:

It is NOT good governance to have a current board member suddenly
resign and then create a situation where that person receives
compensation for a position that seems to have been created
specifically for that board member (or at least was not publicly
posted?).

Even simpler
It is a good practice to create a 12 month waiting period before board
members of non-profits can become a staff member/paid
contractor/consultant.

No matter whether or not this is legally or procedurally explainable…

Jan-Bart de Vreede
(Writing this as a personal opinion)

On 23 Jun 2021, at 22:44, Maggie Dennis > wrote:

Hello, all. :)

I hope and trust that everyone is keeping well during these times!

I’m Maggie Dennis, Vice President of the Community Resilience &
Sustainability group of Wikimedia Foundation, within the Legal
department. I wanted to announce with pleasure that Maria Sefidari
has agreed to consult with the Foundation on Movement Strategy and
the ongoing Board evolution for the upcoming year. Many of us know
María from her role as the chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of
Trustees, from which she provided invaluable leadership in
governance, oversight, and fundraising. Others may know her from her
volunteer work as User:Raystorm
, in which she has a
broad range of experience.

María, based in Spain, commenced her assignment with the Foundation
this week. We intend to tap into her expertise and knowledge of the
Foundation to support a successful implementation of the Movement’s
Strategy and to tap into new opportunities. (With her Board work, she
will be supporting Quim Gil’s team with the Board election and
helping Margo Lee in improving onboarding, documentation practices,
and training.) María will report to me as part of our Community
Resilience & Sustainability group. I’m excited that she accepted our
offer for a more hands-on assignment, particularly given how
important all of the work she’ll be supporting is. :) With more than
15 years of Wikimedia experience, her contributions in the next phase
will be a tremendous benefit to me and my team as we continue
settling into our own work on Movement Strategy.

Those of you who are involved with Movement Strategy are used to
seeing her at related meetings and still will. :) I anticipate María
will be joining one or more of the Movement Strategy global
conversations
this
weekend. Advertisement alert: maybe you can, too? Here’s more detail
!
I myself will be attending at least one of those sessions and look
forward to seeing some of you there.

Warm regards,
Maggie

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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Winners of WikiChallenge Ecoles d'Afrique 2020-2021 Edition

2021-06-13 Thread Florence Devouard


Thank you Aboubacar for taking the lead to announce this :)

A bit of context for those who might be confused...

The WikiChallenge Ecoles d'Afrique (1) is a writing context organized by 
Wiki in Africa (2) and Fondation Orange for the past 4 years.
It runs in primary schools, often in rural areas, in schools frequently 
not connected to the Internet. Which makes it an offline project (3).


For this edition, the contest involved 100 schools in 9 French speaking 
countries, and the kids produced 134 articles published on Vikidia as 
well as over 800 pictures published on Wikimedia Commons.


The contest is expanding every year and is enhanced by the regular 
contribution from several wikimedia UG and of the Vikidia community.

This year, we got national support from

* Wikimedia Tunisia lead by Afek
* Wikimedians of Cameroon UserGroup lead by SerieMinou
* Groupe utilisateur de la communauté Wikimedia Guinée Conakry lead by 
Aboubacar

* Wikimedia Mali lead by Nfana

Our jury also welcomed two members of our community
* Fawaz from Wikimedia Benin
* Macassar, vikidian and board member of Vikidia Association

All articles are beautiful pieces of those kids daily life and culture. 
They are sometimes a bit strange for us to read, and not always 
formatted perfectly according to our wikipedia encyclopedic-approach 
habits.
But all of them are special and likely to teach you something. If you 
can read French, all articles of the last edition may be found here (4)


(1) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiChallenge_Ecoles_d%27Afrique/en 
(general information about the contest, in English and French)

(2) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_In_Africa (en)
(3) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects (en)
(4) 
https://fr.vikidia.org/wiki/Projet:WikiChallenge_Écoles_d%27Afrique_2021/Articles 
(fr)



Anthere


Le 08/06/2021 à 10:00, Aboubacar Keïta a écrit :




Bonjours à tous


Les articles gagnants WikiChallenge écoles d'Afrique de la *Fondation 
Orange* 2020-2021.




*_Prix national_*



1er Prix - Eau Coyah  avec 
l'École primaire de Coyah




2ème Prix - Bagataye  avec 
l'École primaire Saint David de Kagbelin.




*_Prix international_ *



1er Prix Madagascar  : 
Vako-drazana  avec l'école 
des sourds et muets ADSF d'Antananarivo



2eme PrixRépublique démocratique du Congo 
 : 
Malewa  avec l'école Primaire 
à Matonge (Kinshasa)



3eme Prix Sénégal  : 
Exploitation du miel à Bandia 
 avec 
l'école Primaire de Bandia


En tant que facilitateur national de ce concours je tiens à vous 
remercier tous pour votre implication dans vos villes respectives.




Pour plus d'information clique sur ce lien :


https://fr.vikidia.org/wiki/Projet:WikiChallenge_%C3%89coles_d%E2%80%99Afrique_2021/Guin%C3%A9e 








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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Update from the Wikimedia Foundation Board chair

2021-06-03 Thread Florence Devouard


Dear Maria,


I would like to thank wholeheartedly for all those years of service. You 
provided great leadership and I am very grateful for all what you did. 
Receive many many thanks.


Best - Flo


Le 03/06/2021 à 21:39, María Sefidari a écrit :

Dear All,

There is one last bit of news I would like to share following the 
Board meeting update.


After ~ 8 years on the Board of Trustees at the Wikimedia Foundation - 
a long time! - I have notified the Board that I am stepping down as 
Chair and trustee, effective end of day today.


As all of you know, the community-selected seats were due to expire 
last year and were extended at the request of the Board to see through 
these difficult and unprecedented times. Now, after chairing the last 
meeting of the fiscal year and having the call for candidates for the 
upcoming elections approved, it is the least disruptive moment for me 
to step down. The Foundation has asked me to consider an advisory role 
to support Movement Strategy and the onboarding of new trustees and 
the new CEO/ED, to help support leadership and this strategic 
transition. Nataliia Tymkiv, currently Vice Chair, will act as Chair 
until a new one is elected by the Board ensuring continuity.


Hopefully this news will not come as too much of a surprise. I am 
grateful to the community members who lent me their trust and support 
to become a trustee on two different occasions, to the staff, and to 
the trustees for their confidence in me in the different leadership 
positions I have held within the Board - first as committee chair, 
then two terms as Vice Chair, and two terms as Chair.


Together we have accomplished many things during this time, but if I 
had to single out only a few they would be the following: launching 
the Movement Strategy process, engaging in the most ambitious 
governance reform in the history of the Board, and working to ensure 
the stability and sustainability of the Foundation. It has been a time 
of change, of discussing strategy and our future, and deciding 
together what the path forward should be.


Of course, the work is never finished - it will be the task of the 
Board to continue what has been done and face the newer and complex 
challenges that will no doubt arise. I hope that we will see many of 
the women of the movement and people from the Global South as 
candidates in the upcoming community elections - I know there are many 
qualified people ready to step into these important roles. I look 
forward to supporting an increasingly capable and diverse Board.


Be safe and well everyone.

Tupananchiskama,

María

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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Regional Committees for Grants

2021-05-25 Thread Florence Devouard

Hello Tanveer

Thank you for those answers.

Some questions have been moved to meta as suggested, but have not
received any answer yet. Can you please have a look ?

Thanks

Florence

Le 21/05/2021 à 19:12, Tanveer Hasan a écrit :

Hi Florence,

I wanted to bring to your attention that the CR team has responded to
your questions on the discussion page of the Community
Resources/Grants Strategy Relaunch 2020-2021
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunch_2020-2021>.
We are doing this (responding on discussion page) because of the
importance of the questions that you have raised and hope that the
questions and responses would be of help to other community members as
well. We request community members to post their questions directly on
the discussion page.

Regards,

P.S: CR team is going to be copy pasting all the questions raised here
on the mailing list on the discussion page of the Grants Strategy
Relaunch for the sake of continuity and having the option to translate
questions and responses in multiple languages for the benefit of other
community members. Please allow us a little time to respond to the
questions that have already been raised in this email thread.

ಶುಕ್ರ, ಮೇ 21, 2021 ರಂದು 06:03 ಅಪರಾಹ್ನ ಸಮಯಕ್ಕೆ ರಂದು Florence Devouard
mailto:fdevou...@gmail.com>> ಅವರು ಬರೆದಿದ್ದಾರೆ:

Hello Julia

I apology if I missed a step at some point.
In this application, I read that

"All the current grant committees (both active and inactive) will
cease to function with the implementation of the new grants
strategy of the Community Resources Team effective from 1 July
2021. We strongly encourage current and former committee members
to apply to be part of the regional committees."

So... is it to understand that absolutely ALL grants provided by
the Wikimedia Foundation will go through those yet uncreated
committees ?

Does that mean all current recipients of APG grants will have to
address their annual request to those yet unknown teams in the
future ? (september in some cases)

To whom will grants requests have to be addressed to for those
groups who are not related to a specific region ? Do they have to
pick up a region of their choice and consider themselves attached
to it, or will they be appointed a region by default ?

Sorry if the questions seem to be unrelated to your call but...
1) I am trying to understand and measure how much unstable our
current situation is as grantees so that we can anticipate...
2) I am trying to evaluate the responsibilities that will be on
the shoulders of those new regional committee members

Best

Florence

Le 21/05/2021 à 08:06, Julia Brungs a écrit :

Dear all,

We hope this email finds you well and safe. The COVID 19
situation continues to affect many of us across the globe and our
thoughts are with everyone affected. We are also aware that there
are several processes currently in progress that demand volunteer
time and we do not want to add more work to anyone's plate.

We do want to draw your attention to our new Regional Committees
for Grants though as they are an opportunity for you to have an
active say in the future of our Movement!

 So today, we invite you to join our new Regional Committees
for Grants! 

We encourage Wikimedians and Free Knowledge advocates to be part
of the new Regional Committees that the WMF Community Resources
team is setting up as part of the grants strategy relaunch [1].
You will be a key strategic thought partner to help understand
the complexities of any region, provide knowledge and expertise
to applicants, to support successful movement activities, and
make funding decisions for grant applications in the region.

Find out more on meta [2].

Regional Committees will be established for the following regions:

* Middle East and Africa
* SAARC [3] region (Includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan,
India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka)
* East, Southeast Asia, and Pacific (ESEAP) region
* Latin America (LATAM) and The Caribbean
* United States and Canada
* Northern and Western Europe
* Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)

All details about the Committees and how to apply can be found
on meta [4]. Applications have to be submitted by *June 4, 2021*!

If you have any questions or comments, please use the meta
discussion page [5].

Please do share this announcement widely with your Network.
Best wishes,
Julia on behalf of the Community Resources Team

[1]

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunch_2020-2021

<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunch_2020-2021>
[2]

https://meta.wikimedia.

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Regional Committees for Grants

2021-05-21 Thread Florence Devouard

Well, Isla and I were also discussing precisely this point this 
afternoon Bodhisattwa.


The fact board members+staff members+beneficiaries of grants are to be 
non-eligible can be very well understood from a conflict of interest 
point of view.
But practically speaking... if those are not eligible... setting up a 
regional committee in Africa for example, with knowledgeable, 
experienced and trusted individuals will be a challenge.
The system suggest that most of the current committee members should try 
to apply to be on a regional committee, but I am fairly sure that most 
of those would be ineligible.


Which actually brought another question to my mind... do candidates have 
to propose themselves only in the region where they live, or are they 
allowed to candidate to be on the commitee for other regions ?


Might it actually not be beneficial to see cross candidacies ? It would 
at the same time reduce the risk of conflict of interest and bring more 
opportunities for sharing experiences.


Florence

Le 21/05/2021 à 16:18, Bodhisattwa Mandal a écrit :

Hi,

I am concerned about the exclusion of affiliate board members in the 
regional committees. This decision would exclude a large portion of 
experienced volunteers who are there in different user group decision 
making committees. For global south countries, that would diminish the 
pool of volunteers who are experienced and suitable for this kind of 
work.


Regards,
Bodhisattwa

On Fri, May 21, 2021, 19:27 Risker <mailto:risker...@gmail.com>> wrote:


I am very concerned that you think you're going to get about 80
qualified and committed volunteers to do this work within the next
few weeks.  This is unrealistic. I also agree with Florence's
concerns.

Risker/Anne

On Fri, 21 May 2021 at 08:33, Florence Devouard
mailto:fdevou...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Hello Julia


I apology if I missed a step at some point.
In this application, I read that

"All the current grant committees (both active and inactive)
will cease to function with the implementation of the new
grants strategy of the Community Resources Team effective from
1 July 2021. We strongly encourage current and former
committee members to apply to be part of the regional committees."

So... is it to understand that absolutely ALL grants provided
by the Wikimedia Foundation will go through those yet
uncreated committees ?

Does that mean all current recipients of APG grants will have
to address their annual request to those yet unknown teams in
the future ? (september in some cases)

To whom will grants requests have to be addressed to for those
groups who are not related to a specific region ? Do they have
to pick up a region of their choice and consider themselves
attached to it, or will they be appointed a region by default ?

Sorry if the questions seem to be unrelated to your call but...
1) I am trying to understand and measure how much unstable our
current situation is as grantees so that we can anticipate...
2) I am trying to evaluate the responsibilities that will be
on the shoulders of those new regional committee members


Best


Florence


Le 21/05/2021 à 08:06, Julia Brungs a écrit :

Dear all,

We hope this email finds you well and safe. The COVID 19
situation continues to affect many of us across the globe and
our thoughts are with everyone affected. We are also aware
that there are several processes currently in progress that
demand volunteer time and we do not want to add more work to
anyone's plate.

We do want to draw your attention to our new Regional
Committees for Grants though as they are an opportunity for
you to have an active say in the future of our Movement!

 So today, we invite you to join our new Regional
Committees for Grants! 

We encourage Wikimedians and Free Knowledge advocates to be
part of the new Regional Committees that the WMF Community
Resources team is setting up as part of the grants strategy
relaunch [1]. You will be a key strategic thought partner to
help understand the complexities of any region, provide
knowledge and expertise to applicants, to support successful
movement activities, and make funding decisions for grant
applications in the region.

Find out more on meta [2].

Regional Committees will be established for the following
regions:

  * Middle East and Africa
  * SAARC [3] region (Includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh,
Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka)
  * East, Southeast Asia, and Pacific (ESEAP) region
  * Latin America

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Regional Committees for Grants

2021-05-21 Thread Florence Devouard


Hello Julia


I apology if I missed a step at some point.
In this application, I read that

"All the current grant committees (both active and inactive) will cease 
to function with the implementation of the new grants strategy of the 
Community Resources Team effective from 1 July 2021. We strongly 
encourage current and former committee members to apply to be part of 
the regional committees."


So... is it to understand that absolutely ALL grants provided by the 
Wikimedia Foundation will go through those yet uncreated committees ?


Does that mean all current recipients of APG grants will have to address 
their annual request to those yet unknown teams in the future ? 
(september in some cases)


To whom will grants requests have to be addressed to for those groups 
who are not related to a specific region ? Do they have to pick up a 
region of their choice and consider themselves attached to it, or will 
they be appointed a region by default ?


Sorry if the questions seem to be unrelated to your call but...
1) I am trying to understand and measure how much unstable our current 
situation is as grantees so that we can anticipate...
2) I am trying to evaluate the responsibilities that will be on the 
shoulders of those new regional committee members



Best


Florence


Le 21/05/2021 à 08:06, Julia Brungs a écrit :

Dear all,

We hope this email finds you well and safe. The COVID 19 situation 
continues to affect many of us across the globe and our thoughts are 
with everyone affected. We are also aware that there are several 
processes currently in progress that demand volunteer time and we do 
not want to add more work to anyone's plate.


We do want to draw your attention to our new Regional Committees for 
Grants though as they are an opportunity for you to have an active say 
in the future of our Movement!


 So today, we invite you to join our new Regional Committees for 
Grants! 


We encourage Wikimedians and Free Knowledge advocates to be part of 
the new Regional Committees that the WMF Community Resources team is 
setting up as part of the grants strategy relaunch [1]. You will be a 
key strategic thought partner to help understand the complexities of 
any region, provide knowledge and expertise to applicants, to support 
successful movement activities, and make funding decisions for grant 
applications in the region.


Find out more on meta [2].

Regional Committees will be established for the following regions:

  * Middle East and Africa
  * SAARC [3] region (Includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India,
the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka)
  * East, Southeast Asia, and Pacific (ESEAP) region
  * Latin America (LATAM) and The Caribbean
  * United States and Canada
  * Northern and Western Europe
  * Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)

All details about the Committees and how to apply can be found on 
meta [4]. Applications have to be submitted by *June 4, 2021*!


If you have any questions or comments, please use the meta discussion 
page [5].


Please do share this announcement widely with your Network.
Best wishes,
Julia on behalf of the Community Resources Team

[1] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunch_2020-2021 

[2] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunch_2020-2021/Regional_Committees 

[3] https://www.saarc-sec.org/index.php/about-saarc/about-saarc 

[4] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunch_2020-2021/Regional_Committees#How_to_apply 

[5] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunch_2020-2021 



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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Work needed from enthusiastic wikimedians

2021-05-12 Thread Florence Devouard


Hello Margaret


Just in case... https://isa.toolforge.org/campaigns/140

Lovely pictures. Hope I get there one day !

Flo


Le 11/05/2021 à 05:21, Margaret Donald a écrit :
WLE 2021 in Australia is underway and so far has just 306 photos (with 
77 being judged as outside the competition)


There are two major tasks, I am hoping you all will be willing to 
participate in

1. Annotating the photos, by
1.1 adding "depicts" statements as structured data. This should include
1.1.1 species name if relevant
1.1.2 protected area (name of national park, IPA, nature reserve etc
1.2 adding appropriate categories, i.e.,
1.2.1 species name (if relevant)
1.2.2 category for the national park etc
1.3 Adding wikidata for national parks, marine reserves etc which do 
not yet have a wikidata item. This item should should show that the 
area is protected and you may be able find and add statements for:

1.3.1 P809 (WDPA ID) See. e.g.Q106099285s
1.3.2 P814 IUCN protected areas category (available from the WDPA ID) 
See, e.g.Q106099285
1.4 Classifying photographs which fail to comply with the competition 
rules as being outside the competition, i.e., categorise them using: 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Earth_2021_in_Australia_outside_the_competition 
 

(These are a subcategory of the uploaded images and should not show 
them as belonging directly to 
Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Earth_2021_in_Australia


The second task is to grade the uploaded images using the prejury 
tool. The essentials are shown here 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2021_in_Australia/Prejury 

and you join by clicking on prejury tool. (Images uploaded by you are 
excluded from your grading)
The prejury tool will only work well if many of us use it. (This is 
the statistician speaking).  So please use it. It will allow the 
judges to winnow out photographs which will not win.


Thanks for your help on this.

Regards,
Margaret

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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimania Updates - Scholarships and Sessions

2021-05-11 Thread Florence Devouard


Child care is likely to be another answer ?

Flo


Le 11/05/2021 à 21:26, Mohamed ElGohary a écrit :
Connectivity for starters, and owning devices that are capable of 
enabling a good summit experience. Not all volunteers are privileged 
to contribute to a virtual event in a comfortable way. The Internet 
can be expensive for video calls for many countries / regions in 
Africa and Asia.

ᐧ

On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 8:58 PM Esteban Zarate > wrote:


I don't understand what is the purpose of the scholarship this
year, there isn't to travel and no physical venue to host
Wikimania, what is the purpose of the scholarship?

El mar, 11 de may. de 2021 a la(s) 15:50, Winnie Kabinte
(kabi...@gmail.com ) escribió:

Dear Wikimedia Community Members,


We’re so excited to share some updates with you around
Wikimania 2021! We’ve been hard at work, getting things
running and putting things in place and realized we have so
much we’d like to share with you. Thank you for your
flexibility and understanding, as we navigate through this
rapidly moving ship.


1.

Wikimania 2021 will be happening! We’ve already announced
the dates (August 13-17) but wanted to remind you - in
case you had any doubts - that the first-ever virtual
Wikimania will be happening - and we want you there! [1]


2.

We noticed that all though we’ve been going full speed on
the back end at organizing Wikimania 2021, we haven’t
updated you as frequently as we would like… So, we will be
sending out a weekly update email to all of you on Mondays
- until the event goes live. Which in case you were
wondering, is in 3 months and 2 days! (Yes, that soon!)


3.

We will be having a Scholarship Program this year as well!
We’d like to remove most barriers of participation for
those who would otherwise not be able to join. More
information will be coming soon around Scholarships - so
stay tuned!


4.

This year's theme is: Celebrate 20 years of Wikipedia and
the humans who make it happen. We will also be opening up
submission proposals for sessions - you can apply as an
individual, a collective or a Community Organization.


We are excited about all the work and progress happening so
far to make this event happen. We're looking forward to
hearing about your amazing session proposals to help bring
Wikimania 2021 to life. We can't wait to convene to celebrate
two decades of free knowledge.


Best Wishes,

Winnie Kabintie (User:Ms_Kabintie
), on behalf
of the Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team.


[1]

https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Save_the_date_and_the_Core_Organizing_Team




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[Wikimedia-l] [images in Africa] Re: Join the Africa Wiki Challenge Campaign!

2021-05-03 Thread Florence Devouard

We are slowly getting there Ziko.

Since the launch of Wiki Loves Africa in 2014, we have collected 70k
images of the African continent. Not Historical Monuments or Landmarks,
but mostly everyday life pictures.
Last year, we published an infographic to summarize the outcome of the
photo campaign :
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2020_A4_Infographic.pdf

Still a LOT to do, but already way better than a couple of years back.

The point I find the most satisfaction with is the reuse of those
pictures into Wikipedia articles.
Check out for example reuse percentage of WLA 2019 :
https://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/glamorous.php?doit=1=Images+from+Wiki+Loves+Africa+2019_globalusage=1=1[wikipedia]=1]
("Images from Wiki Loves Africa 2019")
This is 10% and as you may see, with a HUGE margin of improvement since
most of the reuse are in French and English. I hope to see the other
languages pick up sometimes...

But it takes time and energy to go through all the images collected to
identify the best fit; so dedicated initiatives dedicated to that are
precious.
WPWP initiative [2] is very important in that regards to improve use of
all those images in Wikipedia articles.

Since you mention Klexikon, let me note that we just closed the
WikiChallenge Ecoles d'Afrique [1] last week :)
And some countries teams are really putting a LOT of effort to
illustrate the articles written by the children, either with locally
taken pictures, or reusing Commons material (often published by
well-known wikimedians).

See for example
* Tunisia :
https://fr.vikidia.org/wiki/Projet:WikiChallenge_Écoles_d%27Afrique_2021/Tunisie
* Cameroun :
https://fr.vikidia.org/wiki/Projet:WikiChallenge_Écoles_d%27Afrique_2021/Cameroun
* Guinea :
https://fr.vikidia.org/wiki/Projet:WikiChallenge_Écoles_d’Afrique_2021/Guinée

There are some pretty cool pages with LOTS of illustrations.

Remaining challenges are to better categorize and describe images, which
we can do for example using the ISA tool [3]

LOT's of work to do in that direction

And finally... identification of best pictures (featured, good etc.) so
that random visitors have more chance to stumble on them and reuse them
(except for North of Africa really doing this sorting well, most african
teams do not do it frequently, so this is another direction where we
could help)

I welcome Ghana's new initiative to give a push into a new rather poorly
explored direction yet.

Flo

[1] :
https://fr.vikidia.org/wiki/Projet:WikiChallenge_Écoles_d%27Afrique_2021

[2] : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Pages_Wanting_Photos_2021
[3] :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:ISA_Tool/Wiki_Loves_Africa_MetaData_Weeks

Le 02/05/2021 à 12:22, Ziko van Dijk a écrit :

Hello Ruby,

Allow myself to use the occasion to emphasize how important the
campaigns for WikiAfrica/Africa Wiki are in order to provide pictures
to the wikis and to the world.

It is still difficult to find good pictures on Wikimedia Commons that
illustrate life in many African countries. I am grateful for the
pictures tourists upload, and sometimes the pictures from national or
foreign governments are quite usable. But there is something missing.

For our children‘s encyclopedia in German, Klexikon, it was a
challenge to find pictures with some diversity when we wrote the
articles about non European and non North American countries. And it
still is, or: maybe there are more suitable pictures on Commons but we
don‘t always find them because Commons as a platform itself... could
be improved in a number of ways.

But in recent years, we have seen pictures made within campaigns such
as Wiki loves women or the thematic challenges about work or transport
in Africa. Step by step, our Klexikon articles can be essentially
improved; although, there is still a certain bias towards pittoresque
churches, nice beaches and other more „tourism related objects“.

Also, we have recently added a number of videos made by WikiTongues,
another great initiative.

https://klexikon.zum.de/wiki/Algerien

https://klexikon.zum.de/wiki/Äquatorialguinea

https://klexikon.zum.de/wiki/Liberia

https://klexikon.zum.de/wiki/Mosambik

By the way, when I am looking for good pictures on Wikipedia (German,
English, Dutch), I see that a lot of Wikipedia articles could need an
update too - with regard to the pictures that have been made in the,
say, last 10 years or even only 5 years.

(I noticed that Commons received a lot of good pictures about e.g.
Barbados and Angola within the last 5 years only.)

So I am looking forward to the new pictures from this campaign, and to
see how they will be used for display on the wikis.

Kind regards
Ziko

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Klexikon

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Logo of MediaWiki has changed

2021-03-31 Thread Florence Devouard


Nice outcome. Congrats to all

Anthere

PS: yet a little bit sad though :(


Le 01/04/2021 à 01:27, Amir Sarabadani a écrit :

Hello,
After more than one year of design, discussion, vote, iteration, and 
months of legal work, I’m happy to announce that the logo of MediaWiki 
has been officially changed. This applies to both the software and 
logo of https://mediawiki.org .


The old logo of MediaWiki was adopted slightly more than fifteen years 
ago. This logo was featuring the nice concept of a sunflower 
representing diversity, constant growth and also wilderness.


However, with years, the logo became outdated and we realized that it 
had several problems, including but not limited to:


  * It was a bitmap picture so it’s unusable in large sizes
  * Its high details (“too realistic”) made it unusable in small sizes
  * Its fixed and realistic style made it hard to have variations or
adaptations

Most, virtually all, software products use a simpler and more abstract 
form following basic logo design guidelines and best-practices to 
avoid above (and more) issues. For example, docker, kubernetes, 
Ubuntu, Vue.js, React, Apache Kafka and many more.


You can find the discussion of changing the logo in 
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Proposal_for_changing_logo_of_MediaWiki,_2020 
 
. As you can see on this page, a lot of interesting practical and 
theoretical exchanges happened, leading to the final vote and decision.


The new logo represents a collection of projects built on our engine: 
each petal is one of the many wikis that we support, and the lack of 
an explicit core shows that we are part of these projects, as well as 
and they are part of MediaWiki. The new logo also reflects the fact 
that evolution never stops, and like the petals of a flower, the 
development of each project, the growth of each community built on our 
engine allows everyone else to grow.


The designer of the new logo is [[User:Serhio Magpie]]. With the nice 
abstraction baked-in, you can use it in large or small sizes or you 
can adapt it for different usecases (there’s one already for mediawiki 
on docker: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274678 
). There is a logo 
guideline for MediaWiki now: 
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:MediaWiki_logo_guidelines 



We already deployed changes to mediawiki.org  
and landed related patches on master, meaning from 1.36 release 
onwards, it’ll come with the new logo. You can follow the work of 
rolling it out in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268230. 



I humbly ask Wikimedians to update their wikis, for example usages on 
the main pages, Wikipedia articles, templates, and more. You can use 
the logos in this category on Commons. The files are already protected 
against upload vandalism. 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:MediaWiki_logo_(2020) 



A big thank you to all who helped this project to finish. From 
designers, community members, people who voted and discussed it 
intensively for months, Wikimedia Legal for doing all the necessary 
work for transferring the rights, clearing it and filing it for 
trademark. And many many more people.


Best
--
Amir (he/him)


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[Wikimedia-l] Launch of Wiki Loves Africa 2021

2021-02-16 Thread Florence Devouard


Hello friends


This is a short announcement to inform you that the latest edition of 
Wiki Loves Africa has launched !


The 2021 theme is "Health and Wellness" (surprised ?)
and can include representations of/traditional or western medical 
interventions or personnel/,/healthy eating/, or/exercise/etc..


Contest page is here : 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2021


There is a lot of info being published at the moment from the main 
twitter account and facebook account. Do not hesitate to follow, like, 
share etc. (links on the contest page)


Many country teams are involved and you are welcome to support them in 
whatever way you will feel most helpful and relevant ;)



WLA over the last 6 years is

 * Over*64,000 images*collected
 * *8,120 unique*submitters
 * Images viewed*520 millions*times altogether (Sept 2020)
 * 270+ events in 23 African countries
 * Submitted images*viewed 41 million times*each month (April 2020);
 * *80%+ of competitors*are newbies;

For those interested by meta topics: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2021


Florence


PS: we are looking for some volunteer jury members from ANY country to 
help serve on national juries to support the small teams. If interested, 
please contact us.

(French, English or Arabic speaking please).

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanks for all the fish! / Stepping down April 15

2021-02-04 Thread Florence Devouard


Hello Katherine,


I like to thank you very much for all what you have achieved, stepping 
in the role at complicated time and really doing the job beautifully.
I wish you all the best in your future endeavors. I will definitely miss 
you. I think many feel a bit orphans after the announcement.


Florence


Le 04/02/2021 à 18:47, Katherine Maher a écrit :

Hi everyone,

Earlier today, I announced to my colleagues at the Wikimedia 
Foundation my intention to step down as CEO later this spring. April 
15th will be my last day, marking my seven-year anniversary with the 
Foundation and the movement. This was not an easy decision, but it is 
the right one. For now, I want to share with you why I’m moving on, 
and what comes next. I’ll save the customary email with deeper 
reflections, memories, and thanks for later this spring!


In some ways, this was the easiest hard decision I’ve ever made. It’s 
never exactly a good time to step away -- transitions always have some 
rough edges -- but it’s always best to do so when the organization is 
strong, and before you’ve overstayed your welcome. The movement is in 
a good, strong place. Our communities are growing, our readership is 
too. Our 20th birthday, the launch of our Universal Code of Conduct, 
and the movement strategy recommendations are all milestone moments of 
solidity and strength. I have great hopes and confidence in the 
upcoming plans for strategy implementation, particularly the work on 
the movement charter and interim global council. We are healthy and 
thriving.


While we will always have more work to do to become the Wikimedia that 
we want to be, our movement and our organization is in a phase of 
renewal and regeneration. We have deepened our practices of 
consultation, collaboration, and inclusion that will be the foundation 
of the next decade of our work. We have a deep and stable financial 
position that will help us grow and protect us from any storm, and the 
trust in our projects has never been higher. Our communities are 
poised to take on deeper responsibilities of governance, 
accountability, and leadership, populating a rich, representative, and 
leaderful movement for free knowledge.


The Foundation is also strong, and filled with passionate, 
values-aligned leaders at every level of the organization, deeply 
committed to the work of our movement and mission. Although we don’t 
always all perfectly agree on absolutely everything, we are working 
more openly and cooperatively with our movement than ever before. 
Collaborative strategic planning, sustainable programs to support 
technical communities and tooling, co-development and consultation on 
transformative new experiences welcoming newcomers, cooperative 
partnerships on public health data, bibliographic data, and human 
rights data -- all of these are signals of much great work to come. 
Even difficult topics, such as brand and movement governance, continue 
to bring people together in nothing less than feisty commitment.


Together, we have rich resources of brilliant people, deep passion, 
and compassion. We are making progress on some of our greatest 
challenges, from editor and readership growth, technical debt, 
representation and participation, safety and knowledge equity. I am 
proud of what we’ve done together and grateful for all the ways in 
which this movement has made my life immeasurably richer: friendships 
that will last a lifetime, intellectual curiosity and kinship, and so 
many memories of */so much dancing/*, from Accra to Berlin to Chandigarh.


As for me, I’m going to take a break, and a research fellowship, as a 
place to think about what’s next. It’s hard to think about your future 
when you’re fully in your present, and for the past seven years, I’ve 
been fully present for this movement. But as I look around, I see 
global challenges such as polarization, inequality, and climate 
change, as well as opportunities for generational renewal and 
optimism. As a Wikimedian, I lean toward optimism, and plan to apply 
myself in that direction!


*What’s next*

  * We announced this planned transition publicly on our
communications channels during a Foundation all-staff meeting today.
  * A Board Transition Committee composed of Dariusz Jemielniak, who
is chair of HR Committee, Tanya Capuano, who is chair of the Audit
Committee, Raju Narisetti, and María Sefidari as Board Chair, will
launch the search for a new CEO. They’ll work closely with the
executive Transition Team on organizational operations, and with
the broader board on an open candidate call. The Board is working
with the goal of onboarding a new CEO by Q2 of the 2021-2022
fiscal year.
  * We’ve been working on succession planning for the CEO role since
2019 as a matter of best practice, and the organization is
well-prepared for a thoughtful search for the next phase of our
mission. The Board has decided to work with Kathleen Yazbak of
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 201, Issue 38

2020-12-14 Thread Florence Devouard


Hello


Still waiting for explanation. But wanted to point out that the 
statement from John below is a bit problematic to me.


Wiki in Africa has been under APG for a year now. At no point have we 
been informed of any changes that would involve a "Tides Advocacy" 
organization.


Note that I completely assume good faith and I trust everything will be 
right. I am not worried.


But must point out that... if the information was meant to be public and 
communicated to all APG orgs... then it was not.


Florence



Le 13/12/2020 à 16:56, John Andersson a écrit :

Hi,

All of the Annual Planning Grants (APGs) to Wikimedia affiliates are 
next year paid through Tides Advocacy. Wikimedia Foundation has 
communicated this change to all of us affiliates that are affected 
many months ago, and there is nothing secretive going on. Please 
assume good faith.


Best,

John Andersson
Executive Director
Wikimedia Sverige

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It is the endowment.

Le dim. 13 déc. 2020 à 10:37 AM, Yair Rand mailto:yyairr...@gmail.com>> a écrit :

> No, the Wikimedia Endowment is a separate thing.
>
> -- Yair Rand
>
> ‫בתאריך יום א׳, 13 בדצמ׳ 2020 ב-4:18 מאת ‪Michael Peel‬‏ <‪
> em...@mikepeel.net ‬‏>:‬
>
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Endowment
 ?
>>
>> On 13 Dec 2020, at 08:33, Yair Rand mailto:yyairr...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> According to the recent Independent Auditors' Report of the WMF
[1], at
>> some point prior to the end of June 2020, an entity called the
"Wikimedia
>> Knowledge Equity Fund" was established, and $8.723 million was
transferred
>> to it by the WMF, in the form of an unconditional grant. The
Fund is
>> "managed and controlled by Tides Advocacy" (a 501(c)(4)
advocacy nonprofit
>> previously led by the WMF's current General Counsel/Board
Secretary, who
>> served as CEO, Board Secretary, and Treasurer there). Given
that a Google
>> search for "Wikimedia Knowledge Equity Fund" yields zero
results prior to
>> the release of the report, it is clear that the WMF kept this
significant
>> move completely secret for over five months, perhaps over a
year. The
>> Report FAQ additionally emphasizes that the WMF "has no right
of return to
>> the grant funds provided, with the exception of unexpended funds."
>>
>> The WMF unilaterally and secretly transferred nearly $9 million of
>> movement funds to an outside organization not recognized by the
>> Affiliations Committee. No mention of the grant was made in any
Board
>> resolutions or minutes from the relevant time period. The
amount was not
>> mentioned in the public annual plan, which set out rather less
than this
>> amount for the entire grantmaking budget for the year. No
application was
>> made through any of the various Wikimedia grants processes. No
further
>> information has been provided on the administration of this new
Fund, or on
>> the text of the grant agreement.
>>
>> I am appalled.
>>
>> -- Yair Rand
>>
>> [1]
>>

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/f/f7/Wikimedia_Foundation_FY2019-2020_Audit_Report.pdf


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikiquote webinar (#shesaid campaign)

2020-11-14 Thread Florence Devouard


so... correction because true experts took this into their capable hands !

So, it will not be on zoom, but on streamyard and it will go live on 
Facebook and YouTube



Youtube link : 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeHTpFVYdOw_channel=WikipediaWeekly


Facebook link suggested : 
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediaweekly/permalink/3414320428615764/



Cheers


Ant


Le 14/11/2020 à 18:16, Florence Devouard a écrit :

Hello


The webinar to learn about Wikiquote will be hosted this SUNDAY 15th 
Nov at 6pm CET.  Link to join : https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84625507631



This is part of the #shesaid campaign, to get more entries on 
wikiquote from notable women.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Women/SheSaid

If you are a wikiquote expert, your input will be very welcome.
If you are interested to learn more about wikiquote and the way it 
works, this is the right time :)



Ant


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[Wikimedia-l] Wikiquote webinar (#shesaid campaign)

2020-11-14 Thread Florence Devouard


Hello


The webinar to learn about Wikiquote will be hosted this SUNDAY 15th Nov 
at 6pm CET.  Link to join : https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84625507631



This is part of the #shesaid campaign, to get more entries on wikiquote 
from notable women.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Women/SheSaid

If you are a wikiquote expert, your input will be very welcome.
If you are interested to learn more about wikiquote and the way it 
works, this is the right time :)



Ant


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] #SheSaid

2020-11-12 Thread Florence Devouard


Hello


Small update on the #shesaid initiative :)

Camelia Boban volunteers to host a webinar in the next few days, to 
explain Wikiquote to anyone interested. This is part of the #SheSaid 
initiative to enter valuable quotes from notable women on #wikiquote.
If interested in knowing more about Wikiquote, we are asking you what 
would be your favorite timeslot on doodle.


More info here : 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wiki_Loves_Women/SheSaid


Anthere



Quote of the day :

"As unacceptable as this problem is -- I know we can fix it."
Kamala Haaris

Source for this (very much shortened) quote : 
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris (yes, you can improve that page)




Le 03/11/2020 à 02:58, Florence Devouard a écrit :


Did you know that quote

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your 
right to say it."


was authored by a woman ?


Do you know how many entries on Wikiquote are about women versus Men ?
14639 men entries... for 2977 women entries...

Suprised ?


I am happy to announce the new*#SheSaid campaign*. The #SheSaid drive 
is aimed at improving the visibility of women across Wikimedia 
projects (and beyond) by creating new or improving already existing 
Wikiquote entries spoken by notable women.


Here are a few statistics:

  * On the English Wikiquote main page on 6th of Oct 2020, in
the/Selected people/section... 29 men are featured and only 4
women (check out the screenshot on the right...)
  * There are 233 women who have a featured article on either French
or English Wikipedias... with no entry on the French
Wikiquotecheck it out

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  * There are 141 women featured article on the English Wikipedia with
no wikiquote entrycheck it

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  * There are 519 women listed on the French wikiquotecheck it

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3117 men listedcheck it out

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] #SheSaid

2020-11-09 Thread Florence Devouard



Le 07/11/2020 à 15:56, Shlomi Fish a écrit :

Hi Florence and all!

Sorry for the late reply; see below for the text.

[One note first: despite what the "i" suffix may imply to English speakers, I
am a (genetic, non-trans/etc.) male. "Shlomi Fish" is my real and legal
name, but I also have adopted or been called by several nicknames, some of
which I still approve of which include "Rindolf" or "Slimy Fish". For more
info about all that, you may wish to peruse the first questions in my home
site's FAQ: https://www.shlomifish.org/meta/FAQ/ .]

On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 02:58:13 +0100
Florence Devouard  wrote:


Did you know that quote

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right
to say it."

was authored by a woman ?


I didn't know that.

For the record:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/06/01/defend-say/

Evelyn Beatrice Hall, who went under the pen name "S. G. Tallentyre"

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Beatrice_Hall


Do you know how many entries on Wikiquote are about women versus Men ?
14639 men entries... for 2977 women entries...

Suprised ?


I am happy to announce the new*#SheSaid campaign*. The #SheSaid drive is
aimed at improving the visibility of women across Wikimedia projects
(and beyond) by creating new or improving already existing Wikiquote
entries spoken by notable women.

Here are a few statistics:

   * On the English Wikiquote main page on 6th of Oct 2020, in
 the/Selected people/section... 29 men are featured and only 4 women
 (check out the screenshot on the right...)
   * There are 233 women who have a featured article on either French or
 English Wikipedias... with no entry on the French Wikiquotecheck it
 out
 
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FFAsitelink%20%3FWQsitelink%0AWHERE%0A%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5.%0A%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%3FFAsitelink%20%23%20There%20is%20a%20Wikipedia%20Featured%20article%0A%20%20%20%20%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fitem%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3Abadge%20wd%3AQ17437796%20.%20%23%20Sitelink%20is%20badged%20as%20a%20Featured%20Article%0A%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%3FFAsitelink%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Ffr.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0AUNION%0A%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3FFAsitelink%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20%20MINUS%0A%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3FWQsitelink%20%23%20And%20a%20sitelink%20to%20a%20frwq%20page%0A%20%20%20%20%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fitem%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Ffr.wikiquote.org%2F%3E.%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22%20%7D%0A%20%7D>
   * There are 141 women featured article on the English Wikipedia with
 no wikiquote entrycheck it
 
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   * There are 519 women listed on the French wikiquotecheck it
 
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 3117 men listedcheck it out
 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] #SheSaid

2020-11-03 Thread Florence Devouard


If your mom satisfies notability and sourcing requirements, yes :
In truth... not always so simple...


On another note, If you have ideas of women and super cool quotes to 
feature on the promotional postcards, feel free to drop ideas in the 
talk page. Would be lovely to have women from various countries and 
cultures !


Flo


Le 03/11/2020 à 16:12, Samuel Patton a écrit :

I love this, and will gladly participate via my personal account!

/"It's not the last couch you'll ever buy."/
/
/
~ My mom, always a pragmatist, abundantly notable in my hometown. #SheSaid

On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 8:41 AM Rajeeb <mailto:marajoz...@gmail.com>> wrote:


Great to hear from you Florence and actually we all are grateful
that you came up with such an awesome initiative, definitely, I
will participate and will share with the broader community.

Namaste,

Rajeeb.

On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 at 16:27, Samuel Guebo mailto:sgu...@wikimedia.org>> wrote:

Hello Florence,
That's a superb initiative!

Cheers,
Samuel

On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 7:10 AM Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l
mailto:wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>> wrote:

Yup cos this quote has been on my contributor page on Fr
Wiki for quite a long time.
Thanks for setting this up Anthere!
I made my first contribution thanks to #shesaid on a
famous quote of Monique Wittig, a renowned French author
(Les Guérillères, l’Oppoponax).

Warm regards,

Nattes à chat

Envoyé de mon iPhone


    Le 3 nov. 2020 à 02:58, Florence Devouard
mailto:anth...@anthere.org>> a écrit :



Did you know that quote

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the
death your right to say it."

was authored by a woman ?


Do you know how many entries on Wikiquote are about women
versus Men ?
14639 men entries... for 2977 women entries...

Suprised ?


I am happy to announce the new*#SheSaid campaign*. The
#SheSaid drive is aimed at improving the visibility of
women across Wikimedia projects (and beyond) by creating
new or improving already existing Wikiquote entries
spoken by notable women.

Here are a few statistics:

  * On the English Wikiquote main page on 6th of Oct
2020, in the/Selected people/section... 29 men are
featured and only 4 women (check out the screenshot
on the right...)
  * There are 233 women who have a featured article on
either French or English Wikipedias... with no entry
on the French Wikiquotecheck it out

<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FFAsitelink%20%3FWQsitelink%0AWHERE%0A%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5.%0A%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%3FFAsitelink%20%23%20There%20is%20a%20Wikipedia%20Featured%20article%0A%20%20%20%20%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fitem%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3Abadge%20wd%3AQ17437796%20.%20%23%20Sitelink%20is%20badged%20as%20a%20Featured%20Article%0A%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%3FFAsitelink%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Ffr.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0AUNION%0A%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3FFAsitelink%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20%20MINUS%0A%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3FWQsitelink%20%23%20And%20a%20sitelink%20to%20a%20frwq%20page%0A%20%20%20%20%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fitem%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Ffr.wikiquote.org%2F%3E.%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22%20%7D%0A%20%7D>
  * There are 141 women featured article on the English
Wikipedia with no wikiquote entrycheck it

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] #SheSaid

2020-11-02 Thread Florence Devouard


Lol Brad.

Side note lot's of activity on 
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris recently...


Bon courage for tomorrow.


Le 03/11/2020 à 02:59, Brad Patrick a écrit :


[Standing ovation!]

Fantastic, Anthere. Thank you. 

*From: *Wikimedia-l  on 
behalf of Florence Devouard 

*Reply-To: *Wikimedia Mailing List 
*Date: *Monday, November 2, 2020 at 8:58 PM
*To: *Wikimedia Mailing List 
*Subject: *[Wikimedia-l] #SheSaid

Did you know that quote

"/I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your 
right to say it."/


was authored by a woman ?

Do you know how many entries on Wikiquote are about women versus Men ?
14639 men entries... for 2977 women entries...

Suprised ?

I am happy to announce the new*#SheSaid campaign*. The #SheSaid drive 
is aimed at improving the visibility of women across Wikimedia 
projects (and beyond) by creating new or improving already existing 
Wikiquote entries spoken by notable women.


Here are a few statistics:

·On the English Wikiquote main page on 6th of Oct 2020, in 
the/Selected people/section... 29 men are featured and only 4 women 
(check out the screenshot on the right...)


·There are 233 women who have a featured article on either French or 
English Wikipedias... with no entry on the French Wikiquotecheck it 
out 
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FFAsitelink%20%3FWQsitelink%0AWHERE%0A%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5.%0A%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%3FFAsitelink%20%23%20There%20is%20a%20Wikipedia%20Featured%20article%0A%20%20%20%20%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fitem%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3Abadge%20wd%3AQ17437796%20.%20%23%20Sitelink%20is%20badged%20as%20a%20Featured%20Article%0A%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%3FFAsitelink%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Ffr.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0AUNION%0A%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3FFAsitelink%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20%20MINUS%0A%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3FWQsitelink%20%23%20And%20a%20sitelink%20to%20a%20frwq%20page%0A%20%20%20%20%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fitem%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Ffr.wikiquote.org%2F%3E.%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22%20%7D%0A%20%7D>


·There are 141 women featured article on the English Wikipedia with no 
wikiquote entrycheck it 
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FFAsitelink%20%3FWQsitelink%0AWHERE%0A%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5.%0A%20%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%3FFAsitelink%20%23%20There%20is%20a%20Wikipedia%20Featured%20article%0A%20%20%20%20%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fitem%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3Abadge%20wd%3AQ17437796%20.%20%23%20Sitelink%20is%20badged%20as%20a%20Featured%20Article%0A%3FFAsitelink%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F%3E%20.%0A%0A%0A%20%20%20MINUS%0A%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%3FWQsitelink%20%23%20And%20a%20sitelink%20to%20a%20enwq%20page%0A%20%20%20%20%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fitem%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fen.wikiquote.org%2F%3E.%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%09SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22%20%7D%0A%20%7D>


·There are 519 women listed on the French wikiquotecheck it 
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FWQsitelink%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28%3FFAlang%3Bseparator%3D%22%2C%20%22%29%20AS%20%3FFAlanguages%29%20%3Fsitelinks%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581072%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20wikibase%3Asitelinks%20%3Fsitelinks%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%3FWQsitelink%20%23%20And%20a%20sitelink%20to%20a%20frwq%20page%0A%20%20%20%20%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fitem%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Ffr.wikiquote.org%2F%3E.%20%20%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%2Cen%22%20%7D%20.%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FWQsitelink%20%3Fsitelinks%0AORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fsitelinks%29>and 
3117 men listedcheck it out 
<https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FWQsitelink%20%28GROUP_CONCAT%28%3FFAlang%3B%20SEPARATOR%20%3D%20%22%2C%20%22%29%20AS%20%3FFAlanguages%29%20%3Fsitelinks%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%3B%0A%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP21%20wd%3AQ6581097%3B%0A%20%20%20%20wikibase%3Asitelinks%20%3Fsitelinks.%0A%20%20%3FWQsitelink%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fitem%3B%0A%20%20%20%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Ffr.wikiquote.org%2F%3E.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22fr%2Cen%22.%20%7D%

[Wikimedia-l] #SheSaid

2020-11-02 Thread Florence Devouard


Did you know that quote

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right 
to say it."


was authored by a woman ?


Do you know how many entries on Wikiquote are about women versus Men ?
14639 men entries... for 2977 women entries...

Suprised ?


I am happy to announce the new*#SheSaid campaign*. The #SheSaid drive is 
aimed at improving the visibility of women across Wikimedia projects 
(and beyond) by creating new or improving already existing Wikiquote 
entries spoken by notable women.


Here are a few statistics:

 * On the English Wikiquote main page on 6th of Oct 2020, in
   the/Selected people/section... 29 men are featured and only 4 women
   (check out the screenshot on the right...)
 * There are 233 women who have a featured article on either French or
   English Wikipedias... with no entry on the French Wikiquotecheck it
   out
   

 * There are 141 women featured article on the English Wikipedia with
   no wikiquote entrycheck it
   

 * There are 519 women listed on the French wikiquotecheck it
   
and
   3117 men listedcheck it out
   


Obviously, not all women say/good quotes/that would make a wikiquote 
entry worth it. Still...



*How to get involved?

* *Give a bit of love to Wikiquote in the language of your liking. Check 
existing Wikiquote women entries and see if they might be improved. Or 
create new entries for notable women who produced notable quotes.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Giving Commons a bigger public

2020-05-23 Thread Florence Devouard



Le 24/05/2020 à 00:23, Erik Moeller a écrit :

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 10:10 AM Gerard Meijssen
 wrote:


Hay Kranen created a proof of concept where Commons is searched for
pictures that (per standard) use a "depicts" statement.

This is a beautiful proof of concept; thank you for sharing it,
Gerard, and thank you, Hay, for developing it. It really illustrates
the power and importance of the Structured Data efforts.

To pick a different example, imagine that you want to illustrate an
article about the importance of wheelchair accessibility at your
university. You might try a major search engine like Google Images.
Try replacing the word "wheelchair" with translations in other
languages. Note how the result sets are different, and how you may get
a much smaller set of results in languages with a smaller Internet
presence.

https://www.google.com/search?q=wheelchair=isch (English)
https://www.google.com/search?q=kitimaguru=isch (Swahili, far less
relevant and smaller set)

In contrast, the use of Wikidata items means that, as long as a label
exists for a given language, you can search in _any_ language and get
the same images:

https://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/sdsearch/#q=haswbstatement:P180=Q191931

The fact that the UI of this tool is currently English is an
implementation detail; even with Hay's implementation, you can type in
"kitimaguru" and get the same results as in English.



Sorry Erik, but I do not follow you here...

For some reasons, it is true for "kitimaguru", but if I search for 
"lamp" (EN) versus "lampe" (FR), or "key" (English) versus "clé" 
(French), I really do not get the same results at all and of course, it 
does not proposes me the same Qs.


I love that functionality, do not get me wrong, I am delighted to see it.

But except for English speakers (and now Dutch speakers it seems), it 
can not be used.


So wonderful proof of concept. But please... let's have all languages here !

Florence




It would be wonderful to see this functionality developed further, and
to ultimately make this kind of search functionality central to the
user experience for Wikimedia Commons, so that speakers of any
language are  given _meaningful_ access to freely reusable media.

Warmly,

Erik

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] New portal about Gender Gap on meta

2020-05-15 Thread Florence Devouard

Taking the opportunity to invite you to update this page : 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Gender_Gap_Observatory


This page aims to track the presence of women both on the boards and in 
the leadership of affiliated Wikimedia groups, as well as the main 
bodies of the movement and the Wikimedia Foundation. The idea is to have 
a more accurate vision of how many women are taking positions of 
leadership and thus promote more equity in our movement.



Thanks


Ant


Le 13/05/2020 à 20:20, Florence Devouard a écrit :


Hello everyone


u:Alacoolwiki <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Alacoolwiki> and 
myself worked on the portal page of the Gender Gap on meta.


Before : 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gender_gap=19889900

New : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap

Why ? The former page was very very outdated.
So first task was to clean it up, remove outdated info
Second task was to look for more recent data, do a bit of digging around.
Third task was to reorganize the whole portal. This was done along the 
same lines than the *Wikimedia Resource Center 
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Resource_Center>. 


*


How you can help ?
Please note that the goal is not necessarily to have regular 
information being updated over there (because we do know it will not 
happen, right ? :)),
but to serve as a hub to link to all resources, groups, initiatives 
led within the community (and beyond). The current pages are by no 
means fully updated. Feel free to jump in and add.
Please do NOT drop links and be done with it. Have a _curated 
approach_ to make it useful AND practical.


In particuliar, I hope that gender-gap oriented groups will make the 
effort of adding their groups to the page listing them if it is found 
to be missing : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap/Groups


And I hope that people leading initiatives will add them here : 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap/Initiatives



I hope it can be useful and better reflect the diversity of our 
mouvement and of the approaches we follow.


Last, I will outline that I am aware that the current design does not 
permit translation. I gave much thinking about that and, in light of 
former state of the page (very outdated) and former state of 
translations (very very weak...), I decided to favor design and 
useability :)



Cheers


Anthere




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[Wikimedia-l] New portal about Gender Gap on meta

2020-05-13 Thread Florence Devouard


Hello everyone


u:Alacoolwiki  and 
myself worked on the portal page of the Gender Gap on meta.


Before : 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gender_gap=19889900

New : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap

Why ? The former page was very very outdated.
So first task was to clean it up, remove outdated info
Second task was to look for more recent data, do a bit of digging around.
Third task was to reorganize the whole portal. This was done along the 
same lines than the *Wikimedia Resource Center 
. 


*


How you can help ?
Please note that the goal is not necessarily to have regular information 
being updated over there (because we do know it will not happen, right ? 
:)),
but to serve as a hub to link to all resources, groups, initiatives led 
within the community (and beyond). The current pages are by no means 
fully updated. Feel free to jump in and add.
Please do NOT drop links and be done with it. Have a _curated approach_ 
to make it useful AND practical.


In particuliar, I hope that gender-gap oriented groups will make the 
effort of adding their groups to the page listing them if it is found to 
be missing : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap/Groups


And I hope that people leading initiatives will add them here : 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap/Initiatives



I hope it can be useful and better reflect the diversity of our 
mouvement and of the approaches we follow.


Last, I will outline that I am aware that the current design does not 
permit translation. I gave much thinking about that and, in light of 
former state of the page (very outdated) and former state of 
translations (very very weak...), I decided to favor design and 
useability :)



Cheers


Anthere



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[Wikimedia-l] New portal about Gender Gap on meta

2020-05-13 Thread Florence Devouard


Hello everyone


u:Alacoolwiki  and 
myself worked on the portal page of the Gender Gap on meta.


Before : 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gender_gap=19889900

New : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap

Why ? The former page was very very outdated.
So first task was to clean it up, remove outdated info
Second task was to look for more recent data, do a bit of digging around.
Third task was to reorganize the whole portal. This was done along the 
same lines than the *Wikimedia Resource Center 
. 


*


How you can help ?
Please note that the goal is not necessarily to have regular information 
being updated over there (because we do know it will not happen, right ? 
:)),
but to serve as a hub to link to all resources, groups, initiatives led 
within the community (and beyond). The current pages are by no means 
fully updated. Feel free to jump in and add.
Please do NOT drop links and be done with it. Have a _curated approach_ 
to make it useful AND practical.


In particuliar, I hope that gender-gap oriented groups will make the 
effort of adding their groups to the page listing them if it is found to 
be missing : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap/Groups


And I hope that people leading initiatives will add them here : 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap/Initiatives



I hope it can be useful and better reflect the diversity of our 
mouvement and of the approaches we follow.


Last, I will outline that I am aware that the current design does not 
permit translation. I gave much thinking about that and, in light of 
former state of the page (very outdated) and former state of 
translations (very very weak...), I decided to favor design and 
useability :)



Cheers


Anthere



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Message to readers from the Wikimedia Foundation regarding COVID-19

2020-03-19 Thread Florence Devouard

Hello

Worth it if someone also took the time to craft us a message to relay on
social media. Maybe a good punchy visual reusing that site notice message.

Le jeu. 19 mars 2020 à 21:27, Joseph Seddon  a
écrit :

> Dear list,
>
> Given the unfolding global events, the Wikimedia Foundations feels it is
> important to reassure readers across the globe.
>
> We'll be displaying a short message at the top of the projects reaffirming
> our commitment to keep Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects online, open
> and free for all. Readers often turn to Wikipedia for neutral information
> in times of stress. This is a critical moment for students who can't go to
> school, people who have to stay home with their families, and anyone who
> needs a trusted source of unbiased information.
>
> We also want to take a moment to acknowledge the invaluable work of all the
> medical contributors on Wikipedia. Thank you for keeping a close watch and
> keeping misinformation at bay. Coronavirus topics have received tens of
> thousands of edits by thousands of editors since the start of the pandemic.
> The article has been read more than 30 million times, in English alone.
>
> The message will be displayed just once to readers, and you can preview the
> banner [1]. The draft is in English but we want this message to be
> multilingual. If you have a moment, please help translate this banner into
> your language [2]. Thank you all, for your work and efforts.
>
> Stay safe, and wash your hands!
>
> --
> Seddon
>
> [1] - Banner Preview:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA?banner=programmatic_mlWW_rsp_covid19=1=US
>
>
> [2] - Translate link:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate=Centralnotice-tgroup-Programmatic_translations_2020=view=%21translated=translate
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[Wikimedia-l] Update Wiki Loves Africa

2020-03-17 Thread Florence Devouard

The Wiki Loves Africa photographic contest is currently running, for the
6th year, under the theme "Africa on the Move"

It should be made clear that the goal of the contest is not limited to
collecting freely licenced images to illustrate wikipedia articles
(though of course, there is also that...). It is also the opportunity to
recruit and train new contributors. It is also the opportunity to
promote the wikimedia projects in countries where the awareness can
still benefit from improvements. It is also the opportunity for tiny new
groups to join the larger community and increase their knowledge of our
mouvement.
Naturally... this implies that a large part of the photo contest
operations usually take place in offline (face-to-face) events
(edit-a-thons, photo walks, upload sessions etc.). Which obviously is
currently a problem...

So... we have just announced some modifications to the contest rules and
operations.

This is due to the global health crisis with all Wikimedia related
events being cancelled.
And this is due to a context... with rather few cases in most African
countries, the population in Africa is currently not following the
recent recommandations to practice social distanciation or even to stay
at home.

First note that all offline activities are being cancelled as expected.
Second, winners ceremonies will be either cancelled (and gifts sent by
postal mail to winners) or will be delayed till... later (we recommand
to maintain the ceremonies and host them after the crisis is over)
The entry deadline for Wiki Loves Africa has been extended to *15th
APRIL 2020* to accomodate the following changes :
We suggest people to upload already existing, archived, images that are
sitting on their hard drives at home.
We will also be hosting some ONLINE events and activities to ensure that
participants and teams are all supported and can still enter. Bear with
us... this will be an experiment ;)

We also decided to urge people to stay at home using the hashtags
#StayAtHome 
and #RestezChezVous and hope that this will help local teams further
spread this message locally for the sake of all.
We have created a bunch of visuals to improve communication in those
directions, which will be used in the next few days.


Links
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2020
* https://www.facebook.com/wikilovesafrica/
* https://twitter.com/wikilovesafrica


The team
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[Wikimedia-l] Wiki Loves Women "Tell Us more about Her" campaign

2020-03-06 Thread Florence Devouard

The Wiki Loves Women initiative is celebrating Africa’s women leaders 
throughout March 2020 with the ''Tell Us About Her'' drive on the ISA 
tool. The drive is aimed at improving the visibility of political 
leaders and activists across Africa on Wikimedia projects.


If you do not know it yet, the ISA tool is a fun and mobile friendly 
tool that helps you to add better descriptions onto the photographs 
uploaded to Wikimedia Commons within selected categories, so that they 
are more useful on Wikipedia and Wikidata. Information added to the 
image description is structured data (depicts or captions). Categories I 
chose for this campaign are related to politicians, activists and in 
particular feminists from Africa.


I invite you to check out what the ISA tool is (if you have not yet done 
so during previous drives). And I of course invite you to join and help 
add structured data information on our ISA current campaign ''Tell Us 
about Her'' :)))


Play here: https://tools.wmflabs.org/isa/campaigns/53


Anthere


ISA Tool : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:ISA_Tool
Wiki Loves Women : 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wiki_Loves_Women




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Re: [Wikimedia-l] "The Foundation does not care so much of the French-speaking contributors"

2019-09-19 Thread Florence Devouard

Sorry to say Jane, but your answer strikes me as being completely beside 
the point :(


The issue Natachat was raising is related to funding our local 
activities, a situation currently made difficult by the new rapid grant 
system (*) She gave the example of the Art and Feminism, but this is a 
single example and other projects are also impacted by those changes.
I do not see how a problem with WMF funding scheme could be solved by 
talking to other volunteers. I very much doubt Natachat would need 
Valerie to explain her how to set up and run a local project on 
gender-gap issues. We are slightly beyond this...


The bottom line is that the community engagement department changed a 
LOT in the past few months, with arrivals and departures. And this 
department is essential for the smoothness of volunteer-run initiatives.


So yes, it was to be expected that the project leads would have been 
happy to meet WMF staff to have the opportunity to better understand the 
changes and the new directions the WMF is heading to.


Florence


* in the new system, grant requests for some targetted drive (such as 
art and feminism or wiki loves) must be made during specific time frame. 
The idea in itself is not a bad one and could help the grant team to be 
more efficient. The problem is that the agenda is too tight, which means 
volunteers have to start activities before they get the financial 
support and to a certain extent even start the activities before they 
get the approval of support.


Le 16/09/2019 à 08:45, Jane Darnell a écrit :

As far as Art+Feminism goes, this project concentrates on biographies of
female artists. The English Wikipedia project "Women in Red" is open 24x7
all year round and concentrates on biographies of women on English
Wikipedia, period. So you can take all of your local Wikipedia questions
about A+F to your local WiR women for each non-English Wikipedia, and if
there is no overlap yet, I suggest starting your own local A+F/WiR in your
local Wikipedia. We should probably start a multi-lingual one for Commons,
since it has proven so difficult to get pictures of female artists to
illustrate articles about them.

On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 8:27 PM Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l <
wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:


Thank you Thierry. To be honnest a few of us were really waiting for
Valerie D'Costa, the new Chief of Community Engagement because we had
questions for her about the new rapid grant funding agenda which seems
totally inadapted to volunteer’s need in terms of flexibility. One has to
wait a soecific month for Art+feminism and very often the timing has not
been adapted to when the events are actually taking place. For a volunteer
this is way too procedural. We need more flexibility.
We had other questions regarding the departure of several people which
were very important for the gender gap.
So ... Some of us were disappointed indeed.
Kind regards,
Natacha




Le 15 sept. 2019 à 20:02, Thierry Coudray  a écrit :

Valerie D'Costa, the new Chief of Community Engagement,



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thank you and farewell

2019-05-17 Thread Florence Devouard

Hello Sati

I am sorry to hear about your departure. You were an important asset of
the Wikimedia Foundation. Farewell Sati and thank you for your
contributions during the journey !

Florence

Le 16/05/2019 à 22:21, Sati Houston a écrit :

Hi All,

After almost 5 years at WMF, I’ve decided to move on from the Foundation.
My last day will be June 4th.

These last few years have been an unexpected journey. When Anasuya Senguta
and Jessie Wild recruited me in 2014, I didn't know what awaited me. I
didn't know that I could learn so much about epistemology, power,
resilience, and community in such a short period of time. I couldn't know
how indelibly I would change - in my perspectives, my approaches, and my
beliefs.

But I have learned *so much*. From the countless conversations I've had and
observed. From working with hundreds of staff and volunteers to understand
different community needs
[1], build new
tools [2], reflect
[3]
on
current programs, understand the breadth and depth of our gaps
[4], understand
our longer-term impact [5],
and find the path forward.

And because we are Wikimedia, it's unsurprising that I leave having learned
the limits of my own knowledge, the power of collective discourse
[6], and the weight of my own
power and privilege in seeing systemic, cultural change happen.

This journey honestly wasn’t an easy ride. I laughed and cried, triumphed
and despaired, argued and made up; I felt supported and isolated, powerful
and powerless. I saw the tremendous beauty that Wikimedia creates and the
long road still to come.

But despite the rough ride, when I think back on my time here I will always
treasure the kaleidoscope of small moments that brought me joy: grammar
advice from Asaf, introducing Felix to Korean food, learning that many of
you are artists or musicians or poets, learning wikitext (yes, I actually
enjoyed that), dancing until my feet hurt, learning to love karaoke,
impromptu lunches and dinners, and many *many* walks and virtual coffee
chats.

So thank you all for sharing your wisdom, humor, and time with me. Thank
you Wikimedia for being a place that I could grow and learn. I will still
be around on the interwebs (and in San Francisco if you ever are in town),
and look forward to watching how you grow.

For now, I leave you with this quote:

"In a complex, technological world, most of us are experts at something.
More importantly, being a true expert means having a healthy dose of
humility. If you have really studied something and really gone deep into
how it works, then you should come away knowing how much you don't know. *In
a sense, that is the real definition of an expert — knowing the limits of
one's own knowledge.*" - Adam Frank, National Public Radio [7]

With much love,
Sati

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Development
[2] https://eventmetrics.wmflabs.org/
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Strategy/Wikimedia_Foundation_grantmaking_review/Intro
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_equity_report_2018
[5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Impact
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensemaking
[7]
https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/04/07/522992390/why-expertise-matters

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Loves Africa 2019 on the theme PLAY

2019-01-23 Thread Florence Devouard


Hmmm. And a sentence got deleted in the process...

so...

There are several prizes to grab. Including two special prizes for photo 
essays that capture Women in sport or Culturally specific or traditional 
formal forms of play, recreation or events.


More on the theme here :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2019/Theme

Florence

Le 23/01/2019 à 22:22, Florence Devouard via Commons-l a écrit :

Hello everyone,


We are proud to announce the launch of the 5th Wiki Loves Africa 
photographic contest, on the 1st of February 2019.


This year, the theme of the contest will be PLAY.

The theme Play! encourages the submission of visual representations of 
joyful and serious games, sport, and recreation in the form of board or 
mental games, physical fun or contests, playful interactions, theatrical 
and musical performances, etc. It is intentionally broad and open to 
interpretation.*Play*is a range of voluntary, intrinsically motivated 
activities done for recreational pleasure and enjoyment.


As with last year, there will be two separate prize categories for 
photos and media that encompass:


As its name might make it obvious... this is about Africa. But diaspora 
and interested people from everywhere around the world are welcome to 
participate... as long as it is related to Africa :)



Compared to previous years, the contest will be shorter this year (one 
month instead of two). But we expect no less success !
If you want to help (photo cleanup, relaying messages, translations 
etc.), please contact us or simply jump in.



For your general interest, some stats may be found here : 
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiloves/africa


There is a rather active Facebook page (for the public) and Facebook 
group (for organizers) : https://www.facebook.com/wikilovesafrica/

Like us to follow the news.

The contest page is available here : 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2019



Cheers


Florence


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[Wikimedia-l] Wiki Loves Africa 2019 on the theme PLAY

2019-01-23 Thread Florence Devouard


Hello everyone,


We are proud to announce the launch of the 5th Wiki Loves Africa 
photographic contest, on the 1st of February 2019.


This year, the theme of the contest will be PLAY.

The theme Play! encourages the submission of visual representations of 
joyful and serious games, sport, and recreation in the form of board or 
mental games, physical fun or contests, playful interactions, theatrical 
and musical performances, etc. It is intentionally broad and open to 
interpretation.*Play*is a range of voluntary, intrinsically motivated 
activities done for recreational pleasure and enjoyment.


As with last year, there will be two separate prize categories for 
photos and media that encompass:


As its name might make it obvious... this is about Africa. But diaspora 
and interested people from everywhere around the world are welcome to 
participate... as long as it is related to Africa :)



Compared to previous years, the contest will be shorter this year (one 
month instead of two). But we expect no less success !
If you want to help (photo cleanup, relaying messages, translations 
etc.), please contact us or simply jump in.



For your general interest, some stats may be found here : 
https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiloves/africa


There is a rather active Facebook page (for the public) and Facebook 
group (for organizers) : https://www.facebook.com/wikilovesafrica/

Like us to follow the news.

The contest page is available here : 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2019



Cheers


Florence

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] A difficult goodbye

2019-01-14 Thread Florence Devouard

Thank you for your work Victoria and all my best wishes of success for 
Atlas AI.


Florence

Le 11/01/2019 à 01:29, Victoria Coleman a écrit :

Dear all,

I have some difficult news to share.

A few months ago and completely out of the blue, an opportunity came up for me 
to exercise the full spectrum of my skills as the CEO of an early stage mission 
oriented startup. It has been a mighty struggle between my commitment to my 
team, the Foundation and  the movement and this opportunity to bring all my 
skills to bear and build something from the ground up to do good in the world. 
I will not lie to you - it has not been easy. But ultimately I decided that I 
have to give it a go and I accepted the offer. I plan on starting there on Feb 
4th so my last day at the Foundation will be Feb 1st.

These past two years have been amongst the most enjoyable in my professional 
career. I’ve enjoyed getting to know the movement and what fuels it and I’ve 
been incredibly privileged to work with a Tech team like no other. We have 
together strengthened the technical infrastructure of the movement and while 
much work remains to be done we have a much stronger team in place to take the 
mission to the next level. And I have personally made friendships that will 
last a lifetime.

The organization I will be moving to is Atlas AI, a public benefit corporation 
supported by the Rockefeller Foundation. I will be leading an exceptional team 
of AI and earth system science experts striving for improvements in human well 
being through data driven insights. Our focus areas are drawn from the UN’s 
sustainable development goals of no poverty and zero hunger with emphasis on 
Sub Saharan Africa.

I leave behind a Technology department that I am certain is well on the way to 
achieving our vision to create the infrastructure for the free knowledge 
movement. I am also pleased that during my tenure, we have built leaders who 
are equipped to take on this challenge.

Erika Bjune will be serving as interim CTO. Erika joined us a little over two 
years ago and she has distinguished  herself as one of the finest people 
leaders I have ever worked with. Both she and Katherine will have my ongoing 
support — I will stay on in a consulting role to Erika on organizational 
matters and for the mid term planning work we have ahead of us in the remainder 
of the fiscal year.  I know that I am leaving the Tech team in good hands until 
a permanent CTO is hired.

I want to close this difficult message with my heartfelt thanks to all of you 
for letting me be part of this incredible movement. Being a Wikimedian is a 
great privilege. I wanted you to know that I’m not walking away from something; 
I am walking towards  something that is very  important to me and the world. I 
will miss you all. Deeply. Truly. And a lot!


Victoria

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] A difficult goodbye

2019-01-11 Thread Florence Devouard

Thank you for your work Victoria and all my best wishes of success for 
Atlas AI.


Florence

Le 11/01/2019 à 01:29, Victoria Coleman a écrit :

Dear all,

I have some difficult news to share.

A few months ago and completely out of the blue, an opportunity came up for me 
to exercise the full spectrum of my skills as the CEO of an early stage mission 
oriented startup. It has been a mighty struggle between my commitment to my 
team, the Foundation and  the movement and this opportunity to bring all my 
skills to bear and build something from the ground up to do good in the world. 
I will not lie to you - it has not been easy. But ultimately I decided that I 
have to give it a go and I accepted the offer. I plan on starting there on Feb 
4th so my last day at the Foundation will be Feb 1st.

These past two years have been amongst the most enjoyable in my professional 
career. I’ve enjoyed getting to know the movement and what fuels it and I’ve 
been incredibly privileged to work with a Tech team like no other. We have 
together strengthened the technical infrastructure of the movement and while 
much work remains to be done we have a much stronger team in place to take the 
mission to the next level. And I have personally made friendships that will 
last a lifetime.

The organization I will be moving to is Atlas AI, a public benefit corporation 
supported by the Rockefeller Foundation. I will be leading an exceptional team 
of AI and earth system science experts striving for improvements in human well 
being through data driven insights. Our focus areas are drawn from the UN’s 
sustainable development goals of no poverty and zero hunger with emphasis on 
Sub Saharan Africa.

I leave behind a Technology department that I am certain is well on the way to 
achieving our vision to create the infrastructure for the free knowledge 
movement. I am also pleased that during my tenure, we have built leaders who 
are equipped to take on this challenge.

Erika Bjune will be serving as interim CTO. Erika joined us a little over two 
years ago and she has distinguished  herself as one of the finest people 
leaders I have ever worked with. Both she and Katherine will have my ongoing 
support — I will stay on in a consulting role to Erika on organizational 
matters and for the mid term planning work we have ahead of us in the remainder 
of the fiscal year.  I know that I am leaving the Tech team in good hands until 
a permanent CTO is hired.

I want to close this difficult message with my heartfelt thanks to all of you 
for letting me be part of this incredible movement. Being a Wikimedian is a 
great privilege. I wanted you to know that I’m not walking away from something; 
I am walking towards  something that is very  important to me and the world. I 
will miss you all. Deeply. Truly. And a lot!


Victoria

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[Wikimedia-l] Announcing release of WikiFundi V2 !

2018-11-22 Thread Florence Devouard


**

*WikiFundi is a software that provides an off-line editing environment 
that mimics the Wikipedia environment. WikiFundi allows for training and 
contribution when technology, access and electricity outages fail or are 
not available at all. It enables individuals, groups and communities to 
learn how to edit Wikipedia or Vikidia, and to work on articles 
collaboratively. Once connected to the internet, the articles can be 
uploaded online on Wikipedia or Vikidia (manually, no automatic syncing).*


*

The plateform has been developed by Florence Devouard (Anthere), 
Emmanuel Engelhard (Kelson), Florent Kaisser, Renaud Gaudin, and other 
members of the community, in collaboration with Kiwix and Wikimedia CH. 
The development of this software is made possible thanks to the 
Wikimedia Foundation and the Orange Foundation. The WikiFundi software 
and its documentation are licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0.


The WikiFundi software is intended to support the WikiAfrica 
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiAfrica>movement and Wikimedia 
volunteers across Africa. It is published by the South-Africa based 
association Wiki in Africa <http://www.wikiinafrica.org/>. It has 
already been used by wikimedia usergroups accross Africa for outreach, 
as well as by several education projects, such as the WikiChallenge 
Ecoles d’Afrique 
<https://fr.vikidia.org/wiki/Projet:WikiChallenge_Ecoles_d%27Afrique>.


The best way to get information about the tool is : * on meta: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiFundi/en


* website : http://www.wikifundi.org<http://www.wikifundi.org/>* 
Wikimedia Foundation blog: https://tinyurl.com/y8ue28o5




For additional information or questions, please contact Florence


#africa #wikifundi #wikipedia #vikidia #offline #education #digitalskills

*

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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia France short update

2017-09-10 Thread Florence Devouard

I thought the electoral commission would forward the results but over 
24h hours after the GA closed... apparently not.



So very brief summary:


Saturday, Wikimedia France held a full day General Assembly.


The agenda was here : 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimédia_France/Assemblée_générale/septembre_2017


Results of votes are available there : 
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/WMFR_AG_2017-09-09.pdf



Key points
* Emeric (chairman until end of June) resigned the day prior to the 
General Assembly
* the remaining board (5 people) was constituted of Samuel (Chair), 
Marie-Alice (Vice Chair), FloFlo (treasurer), Edouard and Florence 
Raymond (not me...)
* Raymond, who was an appointed board member, was confirmed by the 
General Assembly
* the General Assembly voted by 73% the "lack of trust" in the previous 
board
* however, the General Assembly voted to retain the remainer of the 
previous board despite the distrust, in order to allow transfer of 
information and to support the new board during the audit.
* Floflo and Edouard will finish their term in 6 weeks (may resign 
earlier). Samuel and Marie-Alice indicated they would resign at the 
earliest convenience, only staying to help the transition and the audit


* 6 new people were elected on the board. 4 for slightly more than a 
year, 2 for a duration of 6 weeks. All of those are experienced members, 
including former board members and former president (I suppose 
presentations will follow next week)

* the chapter mailing list is reopened
* the members whose new memberships or renewal had been rejected will be 
invited to re-apply

* the prior vote passed in July to expell members will be cancelled
* the GA also voted to support the adoption of a non-discrimination 
policy, for a complete revamping of the conflict of interest committee, 
and for a financial audit to be done.


Sides notes

Next General Assembly will take place around 20th of October and will be 
the opportunity to elect new board members to fill the remaining seats. 
Except for the appointed board member, it is likely the board will be 
entirely renewed in the next few weeks (compared to this last summer one).


Also, WMF published two documents to guide the next few months


WMFr site visit report - septembre 2017
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMFr_site_visit_report_-_septembre_2017

Grant expectations for Wikimedia France - 2017-2018
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_expectations_for_Wikimedia_France_-_2017-2018

I wish the best to the new board. They have a lot of work to do to 
rebuild the complete mess left by the previous management. Please, help 
them as much as you can.


Florence

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board approval of FDC recommendation 2016-2017- Round 2

2017-06-30 Thread Florence Devouard

Morning

I would like to thank the FDC and the board of Wikimedia Foundation for
their decisions regarding Wikimedia France.

As of today, the management of Wikimedia France has still not informed
the membership about the WMF decision. The most active and connected
members are aware of it thanks to twitter or facebook. But the majority
of members are still in their bubble.

Florence

Le 28/06/2017 à 16:35, Dariusz Jemielniak a écrit :

Dear members of the Wikimedia community,

On behalf of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, I write to
confirm that the board has approved [1] the full slate of the FDC’s Round 2
2016-2017 recommendations [2] for the Annual Plan Grants. We also have
taken good note of the FDC recommendations concerning the Wikimedia
Foundation's annual plan. In this round, 4 organizations will be receiving
a total of roughly US $1,605,000. Grants are made in local currency, so the
USD figure is approximate.

One entity appealed to the Board about the recommendations of the FDC. The
Board has carefully considered the appeal. After considering all of the
information, the Board decided not to override the recommendations of the
FDC, and separately responded to the appeal in more depth.[3]

The Board wants to thank the Funds Dissemination Committee members and
staff for the time and effort they have put into this process, as well as
all members of the community who have participated in this round of review,
analysis and deliberations. We appreciate that so many Wikimedians have
contributed to this participatory process, and we value those efforts.

Thank you to all the organizations who submitted proposals in this round,
and for the work that the volunteers and staff of these organizations have
put in to further our movement’s mission.

Volunteers are at the heart of the Funds Dissemination Committee. We are
lucky to have a committee comprised of nine dedicated community members who
give a lot of their time and energy into making this funding program a
reality. We thank you all for your work this year.

Five of the members of the FDC have terms that have ended this year. I want
to thank Itzik Edri (User:Itzike) and Michael Peel (User:Mike Peel) for
their years of service to this committee and congratulate (Michał
Buczyński (User:Aegis Maelstrom), Lorenzo Losa (User:Laurentius), and Liam
Wyatt (User:Wittylama) for their reelection. I also welcome back Osmar
Valdebenito to the FDC and welcome Katherine Bavage as a first timer on the
FDC and congratulate them both for being elected. The Board is looking
forward to working with you.

Sincerely,

Dariusz Jemielniak (“pundit”), on behalf of the WMF Board of Trustees

[1]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Board_approval_of_FDC_recommendation_(2016-17,_Round_2)

[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_recommendations/2016-2017_round_2

[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Appeals_to_the_Board_on_the_recommendations_of_the_FDC
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation

2017-06-25 Thread Florence Devouard

Le 24/06/2017 à 13:10, Rogol Domedonfors a écrit :

This Board was fomed in 2007 to advise the Wikimedia Foundation, and was
required to be renewed annually. No resolution was made to do so in 2015,
so by the beginning of 2016 it had lapsed. This status is reflected at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Advisory_Board but the corresponding page
at https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board is seriously out of
date (it was written when the board was still in existence). Just about a
year ago, Dariusz assured me that "it is one of the BGC's priorities to
revise and re-ignite the Advisory Board" and indeed the BGC minutes for
April published a couple of days ago at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_Governance_Committee/Minutes_13-04-2017
show that the BGC took a paper (not made public) from Dariusz on the
subject and agreed to "submit a formal proposal to the Board". No Board
resoultion on the subject has yet been published.

Rather confusingly, shortly after the BGC meeting, Florence wrote a page
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Sources/WMF_Advisory_board
recording the Advisory Board's opinions on matters arising in the current
movement strategy process. So it would seem that within a fortnight of the
BGC meeting, an entity called the Advisory Board was already in existence
again.

What is the status of the Avisory Board? Has it been reconstiuted, and if
so, when, and who are its new members? If it has not been reconstituted,
what is the status of Florence's record? If and when the Advisory Board is
reconstituted, will input from the Community for potential members be
welcome, and if so how will it be gathered? Once the Board is in operation
again, is it expected that it will interact with the Community, and if so,
what will the mechanism be for that interaction.

"Rogol"
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I was asked to help with the strategy discussion design at the end of
2016. When the strategy discussions were effectively launched, I thought
it made sense to actually ask their feedback to advisory board members.
It does not really (in my view) what the current administrative status
of the advboard is, there are wise people out there and it made sense to
ask them for their opinion. Practically speaking, I could not pursue the
talks very far (in particular in the second phase) due to multiple
personal issues that really impaired my available time recently. But I
think it simply made sense to get them involve, aware of the strategic
process ongoing and inform them enough that they can jump in if needed.

I have no further comment to make on the Adv Board (it is not to hide
anything. It simply is that I have no further comment to make).

Florence

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's go gender neutral

2017-04-08 Thread Florence Devouard

A couple of weeks ago, I was asked - in my capacity of meta admin - to
change the phrasing of a site notice on meta, meant to call for
participation to the month of Francophonie.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Centralnotice-template-WikiFranca_MC17=prev=16482259

The sentence of the call in the site notice was in language neutral
terminology.

"les Wikimédien.nes" instead of the more traditionnal but non neutral
"les Wikimédiens".

That phrasing raised an uproar on the French pump. So I replaced the
term by "nous" (we). Seems to settle things.

Clearly the French speaking community is not ready to adopt the gender
neutral specific language accross the francophones projects.
Alternatives (such as the "we") are possible but not always.

Florence

Le 06/04/2017 14:58, Fæ a écrit :

Thanks for the examples from French and I'm sure that our experienced
translators will have in mind specific best practice guides to turn
to. I like your illustration of "un/une adminstra-teur-trice" to show
the challenges. The use of "singular they" remains uncomfortable for
many English readers, but it has become a recommended standard for
journalists writing in English.[1]

Once the principle of gender neutrality is agreed, I just don't know
what our next steps will turn out to be for non-English versions.
However I am much encouraged by the positive views on Commons, and I'm
hopeful we can, and should, find a way to set a better example for our
fellow projects in our aim to feel welcoming for all contributors. :-)

Links
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

Thanks
Fae
Wikimedia LGBT+

On 6 April 2017 at 12:30, Antoine Musso wrote:

Le 05/04/2017 à 12:52, Fæ a écrit :

I'm taking that further by
proposing that we stick to a neutral gender for all our policies and
help pages. In practice this means that policies avoid using "he or
she" and stick to "they" or avoid using a pronoun at all.

As a non native English speaker the use of a plural form definitely
confuses me or at best. The example takes a sentence from Commons:FAQ
which roughly looks like:

A photographer has to be given credit when his or her picture is used.

With the proposal to instead:

A photographer has to be given credit when their picture is used.

Why isn't "picture" plural as well? If using masculine as a neutral
pronoum is the issue, just stop using the pronoum entirely. Eg one can
instead write:

A photographer has to be given credit when the picture is used.

That is going to be quite a challenge when ported to other languages.
For 'A photographer', the english indefinite article is gender less.

In french that would be either 'un' (masculine) or 'une' (feminine).
What some are advocating is using:

Un/une photographe

If the noun varies as well, that becomes messy. Here for 'administrateur':

Un/une adminstra-teur-trice

That is not solvable in french and all other latin based languages most
probably have the same issue (blame Rome!).

--
Antoine "hashar" Musso

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 19 March 2017)

2017-03-23 Thread Florence Devouard


Eh. We need the link to the movie !


Flo

Le 23/03/2017 à 08:48, Natacha Rault a écrit :

Here what's making me happy this week!
The filmed conference on non sexist language in French that we held at the 
francophone wikiconvention in Paris in august 2016 was elected media of the day 
on commons last tuesday.
Four of the women we trained last year in a gender gap contribution workshop in 
Lausanne asked us to do another in Sion (Canton of Valais in Switzerland) and 
we have 19 participants! Some of them registered in the WikiMooc, the french 
free massive online open course to learn how to edit Wikipedia.
So I have a sense that we are really building a community here and this makes 
me feel that all the time invested was worth and it was not only something 
evolving around national issues but truly about something global going over 
national identities and bridging cultural and ideological gaps as well.

Nattes à chat


Le 22 mars 2017 à 21:56, Amir E. Aharoni  a écrit 
:

Here's what making me happy this week:

The Hebrew Wikipedia community completed initial training of ORES, so ORES
can be enabled in this language soon.

48 Wikipedians manually examined 5000 random diffs and marked them as
damaging or not, and whether they appear to have been done in good faith or
not.

If you keep hearing about ORES and you have not idea what it actually is,
then you'll be able to see it very soon in Recent Changes in the English
Wikipedia. I tried it briefly, and I was amazed: it guessed pretty well
which recent changes are likely to be vandalism. This technology is likely
to revolutionize how Wikimedians patrol their wikis for bad edits, and make
unintentionally bad edits less damaging.

If you'd like to add ORES support for your wiki, look at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_labels

Kudos to users EpochFail, Ladsgroup, Mooeypoo and everybody else involved
for making this possible.


--
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http://aharoni.wordpress.com
‪“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬

2017-03-22 22:37 GMT+02:00 Pine W :


Borrowing an idea from Wikipedia Weekly, I think it would be nice to have a
thread about the good things that are happening around the Wikimedia
universe. If people enjoy this then it can be started (by anyone) on a
weekly basis.

My comment for this week: I enjoyed reading a post from the Wikimedia blog:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/03/21/why-i-elements/: "Why I periodically
write about the elements on Wikipedia", by Mikhail Boldyrev.

Pine
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Launch of translation drive #16WikiWomen

2017-03-17 Thread Florence Devouard

And... magically... just today, I got the query data thanks to Amanda,
EricB and Roan ! Thanks a lot !

I copied it here :
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1m9Kefc7QE3Ler7955vK4BMk1NK2XMrivw99K06_9GFE/edit?usp=sharing

So in the end, we had 160 unique participants alltogether !

Flo

Le 17/03/2017 à 14:11, Florence Devouard a écrit :

Hello everyone

Time for some feedback about the #16WikiWomen translation drive !

The #16WikiWomen translate-a-thon was largely successful ! It not only
contributed more content for Wikipedia, but also visibility about the
African women gap !

Some figures

* Overall, 116 articles have been created based on translation from the
English version.
* Out of those, 64 are basically a near equivalent of the master article
in terms of quality
* Additionally, 39 previously existing article versions have been improved
* The overall number of languages concerned is 44 (+ English)
* Several communities created local pages on their own wiki to
coordinate the effort (nice !)
* The most active linguistic communities to participate to produce high
quality content were French, Spanish, Catalan, Hebrew. We also had good
participation rates from Dutch, Portuguese, Punjabi, Swahili and very
cool content from Igbo, Yoruba, Creole Haitien etc. (please do not be
offended if I do not cite all languages ;))
* Half a dozen other articles were also suggested and though they raised
less interest from translators, they are now noticed...
* Whilst we have not been able to figure out exactly how many people
participated, 54 people self reported participating to the
translate-a-thon ! Awesome !

I hope everybody enjoyed it.

If I may share some "organizational feedback with you"

1) It is quite challenging to actually communicate with many linguistic
communities. As much as I was motivated, trying to actually post
information on a wiki where I do not recognise anything (like Hebrew or
Arabic ...)... very tough

2) I have not been able to identify someone who could help me do the
query that would allow to know how many people participated. I really
tried... but failed. I must say I found that very frustrating to know
that the info is out there but I do not have the skills to do the query
myself and not able to find someone to help within two months. Missing
something here

3) Much to my dismay, many people obviously did not use the translation
feature. I had put a very visible link though. Weird

Thank you to all those who participated or relayed the information about
the drive around.

Next steps: we plan to do... booksmarks... with the ladies biographies ;)

Florence

Le 20/02/2017 à 11:10, Florence Devouard a écrit :

In the run up to International Women’s Day on the 8th March, Wiki Loves
Women is launching the on-Wikipedia translation drive #16WikiWomen.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/16_African_Women_Translate-a-thon

The idea is for Wikipedians to take 16 days to make translate the
Wikipedia biographies on 16 notable African women, into at least 16
languages (African or international languages).

The articles to be translated will be the biographies of African women.
The list of language can be, but is not limited to:
* International languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese,
Mandarin, German
* African languages: Akan, Afrikaans, Igbo, Hausa, Wolof, Tswana, Zulu,
Xhosa, Shona, Swahili, Yoruba, Sudanese, Amharic, Tsonga, Ewe, Sesotho,
Chichewa

The list of the 16 women biographies that will be translated are:
* Malouma, a Mauritanian singer, songwriter and politician
* Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, a South African politician. The best
initial version was in French
* Cri-Zelda Brits, a South African cricketer
* Anna Tibaijuka, a Tanzanian politician and former
under-secretary-general of the United Nations
* Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, a Nigerian women’s rights activist
* Flora Nwapa, a Nigerian author who writes predominantly in Igbo
* Samia Yusuf Omar, Sprinter from Somalia
* Maggie Laubser, a South African painter
* Fatima Massaquoi, a pioneering educator from Liberia
* Frances Ames, a South African neurologist, psychiatrist, and human
rights activist
* Asmaa Mahfouz, a Egyptian activist. The best version is currently in
Arabic
* Yaa Asantewaa, the legendary former Queen Mother of Ghana
* Fatou Bensouda, a Gambian lawyer
* Martha Karua, a Kenyan politician
* Chinwendu Ihezuo, a Nigerian professional footballer
* Nassima Saifi, a Paralympian athlete from Algeria

Please jump in ! And help relay this message accross communities !

If you wish to participate, please feel free to add your name and any
comments here :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/16_African_Women_Translate-a-thon/participants

Results will be tracked on this page :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/16_African_Women_Translate-a-thon/tracking

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Sambad's 100 Women Editathon

2017-03-17 Thread Florence Devouard


Le 17/03/2017 à 05:04, Sailesh Patnaik a écrit :

Dear All,
Inspired by BBC's 100 Women Editathon, The Odia Wikipedia community is
organising an "100 Women Editathon" [1]in collaboration with the Sambad
newspaper. Sambad is one of the largest circulated newspaper in Odisha and
its Eastern Media ltd. is also a popular media house. The event is going to
be organised in Sambad Bhavan on 18th and 19th March 2017. [2]

The theme of this event is to write articles on women achievers of Odisha.
The Sambad is interested in organising regular events in bridging the
gender gap in content and will also provide images of Women from its
archive.

1. https://or.wikipedia.org/s/13hj
2.
http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/women2019s-history-month-sambad-collaborates-with-odia-wikipedia-for-a-two-day-edit-a-thon


Media mentions:
1.
http://sambad.in/news/state/sambad-wikipedia-to-host-first-ever-100-women-edit-a-thon-in-india/40857.html
2.
http://odishasuntimes.com/2017/03/15/sambad-wikipedia-to-host-100-women-edit-a-thon-in-odisha/

Thanks and Regards
Sailesh



Awesome !
Keep us up to date on FB so that we can relay your success !

Flo


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Launch of translation drive #16WikiWomen

2017-03-17 Thread Florence Devouard


Hello everyone


Time for some feedback about the #16WikiWomen translation drive !

The #16WikiWomen translate-a-thon was largely successful ! It not only 
contributed more content for Wikipedia, but also visibility about the 
African women gap !


Some figures

* Overall, 116 articles have been created based on translation from the 
English version.
* Out of those, 64 are basically a near equivalent of the master article 
in terms of quality

* Additionally, 39 previously existing article versions have been improved
* The overall number of languages concerned is 44 (+ English)
* Several communities created local pages on their own wiki to 
coordinate the effort (nice !)
* The most active linguistic communities to participate to produce high 
quality content were French, Spanish, Catalan, Hebrew. We also had good 
participation rates from Dutch, Portuguese, Punjabi, Swahili and very 
cool content from Igbo, Yoruba, Creole Haitien etc. (please do not be 
offended if I do not cite all languages ;))
* Half a dozen other articles were also suggested and though they raised 
less interest from translators, they are now noticed...
* Whilst we have not been able to figure out exactly how many people 
participated, 54 people self reported participating to the 
translate-a-thon ! Awesome !


I hope everybody enjoyed it.


If I may share some "organizational feedback with you"

1) It is quite challenging to actually communicate with many linguistic 
communities. As much as I was motivated, trying to actually post 
information on a wiki where I do not recognise anything (like Hebrew or 
Arabic ...)... very tough


2) I have not been able to identify someone who could help me do the 
query that would allow to know how many people participated. I really 
tried... but failed. I must say I found that very frustrating to know 
that the info is out there but I do not have the skills to do the query 
myself and not able to find someone to help within two months. Missing 
something here


3) Much to my dismay, many people obviously did not use the translation 
feature. I had put a very visible link though. Weird


Thank you to all those who participated or relayed the information about 
the drive around.


Next steps: we plan to do... booksmarks... with the ladies biographies ;)

Florence


Le 20/02/2017 à 11:10, Florence Devouard a écrit :

In the run up to International Women’s Day on the 8th March, Wiki Loves
Women is launching the on-Wikipedia translation drive #16WikiWomen.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/16_African_Women_Translate-a-thon

The idea is for Wikipedians to take 16 days to make translate the
Wikipedia biographies on 16 notable African women, into at least 16
languages (African or international languages).

The articles to be translated will be the biographies of African women.
The list of language can be, but is not limited to:
* International languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese,
Mandarin, German
* African languages: Akan, Afrikaans, Igbo, Hausa, Wolof, Tswana, Zulu,
Xhosa, Shona, Swahili, Yoruba, Sudanese, Amharic, Tsonga, Ewe, Sesotho,
Chichewa

The list of the 16 women biographies that will be translated are:
* Malouma, a Mauritanian singer, songwriter and politician
* Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, a South African politician. The best
initial version was in French
* Cri-Zelda Brits, a South African cricketer
* Anna Tibaijuka, a Tanzanian politician and former
under-secretary-general of the United Nations
* Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, a Nigerian women’s rights activist
* Flora Nwapa, a Nigerian author who writes predominantly in Igbo
* Samia Yusuf Omar, Sprinter from Somalia
* Maggie Laubser, a South African painter
* Fatima Massaquoi, a pioneering educator from Liberia
* Frances Ames, a South African neurologist, psychiatrist, and human
rights activist
* Asmaa Mahfouz, a Egyptian activist. The best version is currently in
Arabic
* Yaa Asantewaa, the legendary former Queen Mother of Ghana
* Fatou Bensouda, a Gambian lawyer
* Martha Karua, a Kenyan politician
* Chinwendu Ihezuo, a Nigerian professional footballer
* Nassima Saifi, a Paralympian athlete from Algeria

Please jump in ! And help relay this message accross communities !


If you wish to participate, please feel free to add your name and any
comments here :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/16_African_Women_Translate-a-thon/participants


Results will be tracked on this page :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/16_African_Women_Translate-a-thon/tracking




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[Wikimedia-l] Wiki Loves Women on German/Austrian/Swiss TV

2017-03-09 Thread Florence Devouard


Hello

Other people reported that in other channels, but I just realized no one 
has done so here.


I invite you to watch http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/?mode=play=65290

This video was made by Tim Lienhard, commissionned by the Goethe 
Institute. A longer video will be published later. The video was made in 
partnership with Goethe-Institut, Lagos 3SatTV (Germany) and Wikimedia 
Nigeria.


It was shot in Nigeria with the Nigeria Team under the leadership of 
Olaniyan Shola. The Facebook page of Shola reports a lot the story of 
the video shooting with great pictures :)


Check out posts around the 23rd of February : 
https://www.facebook.com/olaniyan.shola?fref=nf


And as always... to know more about Wiki Loves Women, please head to 
https://www.facebook.com/WikiLovesWomen/ and like our page ;)


Florence

I think I went over my self-defined post allowance the last 2 days. I'll 
be quiet now. But that was an amazing International Woman Day !



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Launch of Wiki Loves Women explainer video

2017-03-08 Thread Florence Devouard


Anytime Anna !

Speaking about Spanish... all of our biographies for the #16WikiWomen 
translation drive were translated in Spanish. Kudos ! 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/16_African_Women_Translate-a-thon/tracking


Flo


Le 08/03/2017 à 15:42, Anna Torres a écrit :

Thanks Isla and Florence!

This is so cool! We should work closer to improve in Spanish African women
in Wikipedia :) Let's talk?

Hugs!

2017-03-08 11:37 GMT-03:00 Florence Devouard <fdevou...@gmail.com>:


Hello everyone

Wiki Loves Women is officially launching its presentation video today.

Please check it out here and tell us what you think :
https://vimeo.com/207432965

It is also on Commons : https://commons.wikimedia.org/
wiki/File:Wiki_loves_Women_-_English_WebM_-_Final.webm

This video was a partnership between WikiAfrica, Goethe Institute and
Blink Tower.

It brought quite a few challenges... such as myself being completely happy
with the exact terms of the script, succeeding to get every element of the
video under a free licence including the background music, getting a nice
african women voice for the narrative, getting curly hair rather than flat
ones, identifying nice examples of western as well as african concerns...
etc. We tried to be as inclusive as possible.

Well, we hope you like it.
If you do... please litterally "like" the video and "like" our facebook
page

A French version is currently being recorded and should follow shortly.

Last, we would love to see the video subtitled in many langages. If you
want to give a hand for the translation, please get in touch with us (by
email, or twitter, or facebook, or on our meta talk page :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Women)
I'll set up a page for translation on meta shortly.

http://www.wikiloveswomen.org
https://www.facebook.com/WikiLovesWomen
http://www.twitter.com/wikiloveswomen

Isla and Florence



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[Wikimedia-l] Launch of Wiki Loves Women explainer video

2017-03-08 Thread Florence Devouard


Hello everyone

Wiki Loves Women is officially launching its presentation video today.

Please check it out here and tell us what you think : 
https://vimeo.com/207432965


It is also on Commons : 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_loves_Women_-_English_WebM_-_Final.webm


This video was a partnership between WikiAfrica, Goethe Institute and 
Blink Tower.


It brought quite a few challenges... such as myself being completely 
happy with the exact terms of the script, succeeding to get every 
element of the video under a free licence including the background 
music, getting a nice african women voice for the narrative, getting 
curly hair rather than flat ones, identifying nice examples of western 
as well as african concerns... etc. We tried to be as inclusive as possible.


Well, we hope you like it.
If you do... please litterally "like" the video and "like" our facebook page

A French version is currently being recorded and should follow shortly.

Last, we would love to see the video subtitled in many langages. If you 
want to give a hand for the translation, please get in touch with us (by 
email, or twitter, or facebook, or on our meta talk page : 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Women)

I'll set up a page for translation on meta shortly.

http://www.wikiloveswomen.org
https://www.facebook.com/WikiLovesWomen
http://www.twitter.com/wikiloveswomen

Isla and Florence



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[Wikimedia-l] Occupation of Women on WikiData

2017-03-08 Thread Florence Devouard


This is a tool done by Envel Le Hir using WikiData and published today.

I actually inspired him the idea during a conference, when talking of my 
desire to get generic data about women professionnal occupation. My main 
argument is that I felt many of the added biographies about women were 
about actors, singers, or football players. Much less about politicians 
and business. But it was a "guess" and I wanted more hard data.


And apparently... he got busy

http://tools.dicare.org/gaps/gender.php

Ok.
Hard data (1950-2005 birth dates):
* 80% of the biographies of porn actors are about women.
* 98.3% of beauty pageant contestants are about women.
* 24% of politicians are about women
* 8.4% of computer scientists are about women.

Or ... In Algeria... the more popular occupation of women by far is... 
Volley Ball !

In France... actors.
And in Guinea... well... hard to say... only 17 biographies about 
Guinean women anyway.


Florence


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] More politics: "WMF Annual Report"

2017-03-02 Thread Florence Devouard


Thanks for jumping in Zach.

Good explanations and contextual background. Thanks.

Bunch of suggestions for fixes and small improvement (sourcing, legend) 
have been offered on this list by others. Good.



I have another easy to implement suggestion that might help to decrease 
potential confusion.


Currently, the default fact displayed at the top of the fact page and on 
every other page is the "half of refugees are of school-age".


Typically, this fact is not so obviously related to Wikipedia and it is 
probably a bit confusing to see it appear so proeminently in the annual 
report.


When jumping into the fact page, the refugee fact is still at the top 
and followed by the global warming one (maybe again not so Wikipedia 
obviously related)


Maybe a pick for the default top fact, more directly related to 
Wikipedia, would have been a good idea, such as "most wikipedia articles 
are in languages other than English" or "wikipedia is updated 350 times 
per minute".


I think the "wikipedia is updated 350 times per minute" might be the one 
which makes the more sense to put first as it explains faked news concept.


In short... maybe reshuffling the order of "facts" and choosing another 
default one.



What do you think ? Makes sense ? Or was there a specific thought behind 
putting the refugee first ? (aside from putting a pict of children that is).


And adding perhaps a one-liner to explain this "facts" approach.


A question... is translation of the annual report considered ?

Florence


PS: Otherwise, I think Risker makes a good point.


Le 02/03/2017 à 02:26, Zachary McCune a écrit :

Hi everyone -

Zack here from the Communications team at the Foundation. I want to say
some more about the theme for the Foundation’s annual report and why we
picked it.

We chose the theme in early October as a way to remind the world how
Wikipedia works and why our movement matters. By that time, and before the
U.S. elections, the state of fact-based information had become a
highly-discussed topic internationally. We received questions from the
media about how and why Wikipedia was able to avoid the fake news
phenomenon, while many other companies had become amplifiers for false
information. We heard from donors about the importance of Wikipedia in a
world where verifiable information is not promised. We saw, as always, an
unwavering commitment from the community to presenting the facts.

International conversations around fake news and facts only serve to
reinforce how the Wikimedia movement’s commitment to verifiability and
neutrality are indispensable.[1] This is not just an American or a
political phenomenon. Last year in India, a false story about a
surveillance chip in a new 2,000 rupee bill spread widely on WhatsApp,
which has 50 million monthly users in India (the news was eventually
debunked).[2] Just this week, 37 French news organizations came together to
launch CrossCheck a collaboration to address the spread of false
information online.[3]

In this year’s annual report we offer 10 facts as ways into our communities
and our work. They are introductions for Wikimedians who document climate
change, increase the number of women’s biographies, offer language and
learning to refugees, or add new languages to Wikipedia (welcome Tulu!).
They are stories, as are always included in the annual report, that show
who Wikimedians are and why their work is so powerful. The stories are
meant to appeal to even the most general and non-Wikimedia-familiar reader.
So we consciously work to show how the big data points of 2016 last year
are evaluated and interpreted by Wikimedians.

The 10 facts are also ways to examine the impact of Foundation projects.
From Support & Safety to understanding New Readers, there are stories of
how collaborations between communities and departments make amazing things
happen.

Concerning the banners, we crafted that language as a broad thank you and
an invitation for the curious to learn more about the Wikimedia movement
and the Wikimedia Foundation. Quite consciously we sought language that is
not political. If you have copy ideas on how to relate that message better,
I would be happy to work with you! -> zmccune [at] wikimedia [dot] org

Yair, Florence, and everyone, I am grateful that you opened this
discussion. And I hope I can help explain more things as questions come up.

- Zack

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability

[2]
http://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/nope-rs-2000-note-does-not-have-a-gps-nano-chip-inside-it/
[3]
http://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2017/02/28/lutte-contre-les-fausses-informations-le-monde-partenaire-du-projet-crosscheck_5086731_4355770.html



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Date: Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 1:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] More politics: "WMF Annual Report"
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] More politics: "WMF Annual Report"

2017-03-01 Thread Florence Devouard

Le 02/03/2017 à 01:15, Erik Moeller a écrit :

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Florence Devouard <fdevou...@gmail.com> wrote:

For example... the message "one in six people visited another country in
2016"... illustrated by "SeaTac Airport protest against immigration ban.
Sit-in blocking arrival gates until 12 detainees at Sea-Tac are released.
Photo by Dennis Bratland.CC BY-SA 4.0"

Really... "visiting a country" is a quite different thing from
"immigrating".

The caption is in fact misleading because it uses the phrase
"immigration ban", which is a mischaracterization of the ban. The
Executive Order was not an immigration ban; it (temporarily) banned
people from those countries from entering the United States, even for
visits, with some exceptions. See:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/31/us/politics/trump-immigration-ban-groups.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13769#Visitors.2C_immigrants_and_refugees

If the photo remains, I recommend changing this caption to use either
"travel ban" or "entry ban"; both phrases are used in the Wikipedia
article.

Erik

Nod. Erik and Dan, what you say make sense.

Florence

Re: [Wikimedia-l] More politics: "WMF Annual Report"

2017-03-01 Thread Florence Devouard

I must say I also find the political message behind this a bit too 
heavy. It lets me a bit unconfortable.


That most of the themes reported here are not Mr Trump cup of tea is 
quite obvious. That the whole page is a message against the president, I 
get it.


But in some cases, I think it is really lacking subtility or a bit too 
manipulative. And that is not so cool.


For example... the message "one in six people visited another country in 
2016"... illustrated by "SeaTac Airport protest against immigration ban. 
Sit-in blocking arrival gates until 12 detainees at Sea-Tac are 
released. Photo by Dennis Bratland.CC BY-SA 4.0"


Really... "visiting a country" is a quite different thing from 
"immigrating".


I think the choice of picture inappropriate.

Florence


Le 01/03/2017 à 21:15, Lodewijk a écrit :

I didn't see the banner, but the page definitely looks... 'funny'.

I'm especially confused on what the purpose of the campaign/page is, even
after reading the different sections. It mostly feels either like a
political statement about refugees (which takes very clearly center stage)
or an 'unfinished' page which is work in progress. The landing page is
confusing (why am i taken there? What am I supposed to discover?), the
'refugees' banner is repeated on each page (which seems to emphasize it
should be the focus) and there's a few (minor) errors to be improved
(visible paragraph separator characters in the sustaining donor list, the
balance sheet is claiming to span a whole year).

Is this perhaps still work in progress?

On the visual end, it looks great though. I love the chatting group of
Wikipedians as a background.

Best,
Lodewijk

2017-03-01 20:59 GMT+01:00 Joseph Seddon :


Hi James.

You can find out more about the Endowment here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Endowment

Seddon

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 7:54 PM, James Salsman  wrote:


The statements Yair quoted are appropriate unless you believe
"empower" in the Foundation's Mission statement merely means "enable"
or "facilitate," without regard to economic or political power, so I'm
very glad to see them, as I am to see all of the eleven sections in
https://annual.wikimedia.org/2016/consider-the-facts.html

Yair omitted mention of the descriptions of how, in each of those
eleven cases, our volunteers are using Foundation projects to address
the identified issues. Those who think discussion of these issues
should be suppressed or are cause to leave could talk with the
volunteers whose work has been profiled so that both sides can
understand the motivations and concerns of the other. Maybe Roxana
Sordo or Andreas Weith are on this list and can address the concerns
raised about the description of their work directly? In any case, free
culture isn't compatible with prohibition of discussion and
censorship. And the impulses toward such suppression aren't rational,
given the extent to which the human endocrine system regulates
personal, group, hierarchical, and reciprocal relationships, as shown
in Table 1 on page 192 of Daphne Bugental's (2000) "Acquisition of the
Algorithms of Social Life: A Domain-Based Approach," in Psychological
Bulletin 126(2):187-219, at http://talknicer.com/Bugental2000.pdf

Regarding the Annual Report financials, it looks like the investment
income the Foundation is earning has fallen below 1%. I don't think
it's fair to donors to hold $47 million dollars in cash and
equivalents as per https://annual.wikimedia.org/2016/financials.html
-- Are people waiting for the Endowment Committee to meet before
investing? Does anyone know when the Endowment Committee will ever
meet?


On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Yair Rand  wrote:

An unscheduled CentralNotice just started running, linking to a rather
bizarre page [1]. Purporting to be the WMF's 2016 Annual Report, it

starts

off with some text about refugees. "FACT: Half of refugees are

school-age",

followed by some completely unencyclopedic text about the topic: "That
means 10 million children are away from their homes, their communities,

and

their traditional education. Each refugee child’s experience is unique,

but

every single one loses time from their important learning years. Many

of

them face the added pressure of being surrounded by new languages and
cultures." The linked page goes on to detail some of Wikimedia's vision

and

how Wikimedia projects aid refugee populations. Following that, we have

an

entire page on climate change and some of its effects, similarly

written

in

a style that is not befitting the movement: "In 2015, [Wikimedian

Andreas

Weith] photographed starving polar bears in the Arctic. As the ice
declines, so does their ability to find food. “It’s heartbreaking,” he
says." After all that, we finally have some pages on interesting

statistics

about Wikimedia, mixed in with some general odd facts about the world,
followed by a call to donate. There are also letters

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Launch of translation drive #16WikiWomen

2017-02-24 Thread Florence Devouard


Hello

Since the launch of the translation effort, 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asmaa_Mahfouz went from 11 languages to 20 
! Nice !


We still need your help to give a bit more visibility on the web to 16 
African women.


Please join to help here or relay : 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/16_African_Women_Translate-a-thon?



Anthere

#16WikiWomen



Le 20/02/2017 à 11:10, Florence Devouard a écrit :

In the run up to International Women’s Day on the 8th March, Wiki Loves
Women is launching the on-Wikipedia translation drive #16WikiWomen.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/16_African_Women_Translate-a-thon

The idea is for Wikipedians to take 16 days to make translate the
Wikipedia biographies on 16 notable African women, into at least 16
languages (African or international languages).

The articles to be translated will be the biographies of African women.
The list of language can be, but is not limited to:
* International languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese,
Mandarin, German
* African languages: Akan, Afrikaans, Igbo, Hausa, Wolof, Tswana, Zulu,
Xhosa, Shona, Swahili, Yoruba, Sudanese, Amharic, Tsonga, Ewe, Sesotho,
Chichewa

The list of the 16 women biographies that will be translated are:
* Malouma, a Mauritanian singer, songwriter and politician
* Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, a South African politician. The best
initial version was in French
* Cri-Zelda Brits, a South African cricketer
* Anna Tibaijuka, a Tanzanian politician and former
under-secretary-general of the United Nations
* Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, a Nigerian women’s rights activist
* Flora Nwapa, a Nigerian author who writes predominantly in Igbo
* Samia Yusuf Omar, Sprinter from Somalia
* Maggie Laubser, a South African painter
* Fatima Massaquoi, a pioneering educator from Liberia
* Frances Ames, a South African neurologist, psychiatrist, and human
rights activist
* Asmaa Mahfouz, a Egyptian activist. The best version is currently in
Arabic
* Yaa Asantewaa, the legendary former Queen Mother of Ghana
* Fatou Bensouda, a Gambian lawyer
* Martha Karua, a Kenyan politician
* Chinwendu Ihezuo, a Nigerian professional footballer
* Nassima Saifi, a Paralympian athlete from Algeria

Please jump in ! And help relay this message accross communities !


If you wish to participate, please feel free to add your name and any
comments here :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/16_African_Women_Translate-a-thon/participants


Results will be tracked on this page :
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Launch of translation drive #16WikiWomen

2017-02-21 Thread Florence Devouard

slator.

The two above illustrative categories have different scope.

Please, correct me if I am wrong.


Best,

Isaac
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.

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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 23:46:12
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Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Launch of translation drive #16WikiWomen

Why using a category?

Categories are especially useful for navigation purposes or maintenance. A
category here seems useless.

The only categories that are useful are the ones for categorising women in
various ways like profession, country, etc. I hope that kind of categories
can be filled with many articles about women in Africa.

Romaine

2017-02-20 22:11 GMT+01:00 Olatunde Isaac <reachout2is...@gmail.com>:


Hi Flo,

I am curious, is there a category we could place articles translated as
part of 16 WikiWomen?

Best,

Isaac.
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.

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Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Launch of translation drive #16WikiWomen

In the run up to International Women’s Day on the 8th March, Wiki Loves
Women is launching the on-Wikipedia translation drive #16WikiWomen.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/16_African_Women_Translate-a-thon

The idea is for Wikipedians to take 16 days to make translate the
Wikipedia biographies on 16 notable African women, into at least 16
languages (African or international languages).

The articles to be translated will be the biographies of African women.
The list of language can be, but is not limited to:
* International languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese,
Mandarin, German
* African languages: Akan, Afrikaans, Igbo, Hausa, Wolof, Tswana, Zulu,
Xhosa, Shona, Swahili, Yoruba, Sudanese, Amharic, Tsonga, Ewe, Sesotho,
Chichewa

The list of the 16 women biographies that will be translated are:
* Malouma, a Mauritanian singer, songwriter and politician
* Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, a South African politician. The best
initial version was in French
* Cri-Zelda Brits, a South African cricketer
* Anna Tibaijuka, a Tanzanian politician and former
under-secretary-general of the United Nations
* Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, a Nigerian women’s rights activist
* Flora Nwapa, a Nigerian author who writes predominantly in Igbo
* Samia Yusuf Omar, Sprinter from Somalia
* Maggie Laubser, a South African painter
* Fatima Massaquoi, a pioneering educator from Liberia
* Frances Ames, a South African neurologist, psychiatrist, and human
rights activist
* Asmaa Mahfouz, a Egyptian activist. The best version is currently in
Arabic
* Yaa Asantewaa, the legendary former Queen Mother of Ghana
* Fatou Bensouda, a Gambian lawyer
* Martha Karua, a Kenyan politician
* Chinwendu Ihezuo, a Nigerian professional footballer
* Nassima Saifi, a Paralympian athlete from Algeria

Please jump in ! And help relay this message accross communities !


If you wish to participate, please feel free to add your name and any
comments here :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/16_African_Women_
Translate-a-thon/participants

Results will be tracked on this page :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/16_African_Women_Translate-a-thon/tracking




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[Wikimedia-l] Launch of translation drive #16WikiWomen

2017-02-20 Thread Florence Devouard

In the run up to International Women’s Day on the 8th March, Wiki Loves 
Women is launching the on-Wikipedia translation drive #16WikiWomen.


https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/16_African_Women_Translate-a-thon

The idea is for Wikipedians to take 16 days to make translate the 
Wikipedia biographies on 16 notable African women, into at least 16 
languages (African or international languages).


The articles to be translated will be the biographies of African women. 
The list of language can be, but is not limited to:
* International languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, 
Mandarin, German
* African languages: Akan, Afrikaans, Igbo, Hausa, Wolof, Tswana, Zulu, 
Xhosa, Shona, Swahili, Yoruba, Sudanese, Amharic, Tsonga, Ewe, Sesotho, 
Chichewa


The list of the 16 women biographies that will be translated are:
* Malouma, a Mauritanian singer, songwriter and politician
* Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, a South African politician. The best 
initial version was in French

* Cri-Zelda Brits, a South African cricketer
* Anna Tibaijuka, a Tanzanian politician and former 
under-secretary-general of the United Nations

* Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, a Nigerian women’s rights activist
* Flora Nwapa, a Nigerian author who writes predominantly in Igbo
* Samia Yusuf Omar, Sprinter from Somalia
* Maggie Laubser, a South African painter
* Fatima Massaquoi, a pioneering educator from Liberia
* Frances Ames, a South African neurologist, psychiatrist, and human 
rights activist
* Asmaa Mahfouz, a Egyptian activist. The best version is currently in 
Arabic

* Yaa Asantewaa, the legendary former Queen Mother of Ghana
* Fatou Bensouda, a Gambian lawyer
* Martha Karua, a Kenyan politician
* Chinwendu Ihezuo, a Nigerian professional footballer
* Nassima Saifi, a Paralympian athlete from Algeria

Please jump in ! And help relay this message accross communities !


If you wish to participate, please feel free to add your name and any 
comments here : 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/16_African_Women_Translate-a-thon/participants


Results will be tracked on this page : 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/16_African_Women_Translate-a-thon/tracking





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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Moderation notice

2017-02-13 Thread Florence Devouard


Same in French...

Le 13/02/2017 à 12:35, John Erling Blad a écrit :

It is common to refer to those that cooperated with the Nazis during WWII
as "kollaboratører" (kollaborators) in Norwegian too.
https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kollaborat%C3%B8r

Translating between languages are fun! =)

John

13. feb. 2017 09.08 skrev "Jane Darnell" :

… The only disrespectful
thing I could find in his recent edits was his remark that he is not a
collaborator because his cultural heritage assumes "collaborators" are
"nazis", which is offensive in English. I would like to point out here that
the word collaborator really does mean nazi in Dutch. It's one of many
translation challenges, so there is even a Wikipedia article that spells it
all out:
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaboratie
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland: Abraham Taherivand appointed permanent Executive Director

2017-01-30 Thread Florence Devouard


Congratulations to Abraham for the new responsibility !

Florence

Le 30/01/2017 à 16:57, Tim Moritz Hector a écrit :

Dear Wikimedians,

It is our great pleasure to announce that during last weekend’s Board
retreat, we voted to appoint Abraham Taherivand as Executive Director of
Wikimedia Deutschland with immediate effect.

Abraham has joined Wikimedia Deutschland in 2012, has been the director of
our Software Development department, and interim ED in the past two months.
In all his roles he has shown vast experience and qualifications as well as
the much needed, deep commitment for Free Knowledge. We are convinced that
Abraham is the right person at the right time for Wikimedia Deutschland and
have great confidence that the management of the office is in good hands
with him. Abraham will continue to lead the Software Development department
on an interim basis until we have been able to fill this position with a
new permanent director.

Together with Abraham, WMDE staff, our members and communities as well as
other interested parties, the board will analyse and – where applicable –
revise the composition of leadership and decision making structures at WMDE
in 2017. Kurt Jansson, Sebastian Moleski and myself will be steering this
process and are available for your questions and feedback via email (
praesid...@wikimedia.de).

We wish Abraham the very best in this role, and the Board looks forward to
continuing to work with him. Please join us in congratulating Abraham!

For the Supervisory Board
Tim Moritz Hector
Chair
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Exciting update about development of structured data on Commons

2017-01-10 Thread Florence Devouard


Wow ! Awesome !

Florence

Le 09/01/2017 à 20:48, Wes Moran a écrit :

Hello Wikimedia community,

It’s our delight to inform you that we received a US$3,015,000 grant from
the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
 [1] to expedite
development of structured data on Commons. The grant will be given over the
course of three years, and will allow us to develop a team, in
collaboration with the Wikidata team at Wikimedia Deutschland, that can
focus on integrating the structured data features of Wikidata into
describing the media files on Commons.

This work will allow us to expedite features both on the Wikidata
development roadmap, and in other products supported by the Wikimedia
Foundation. The grant also provides funding to ensure that movement
stakeholders, like Wiki Loves Monuments and GLAM-Wiki program leaders, and
external partners who contribute heavily to Commons, such as GLAMs, can be
involved in the development.

We have drafted a high level overview of the grant and its scope, available
on Commons

[2]. A blog post about the grant is also available on the Wikimedia blog

[3].

We are currently in the process of identifying the technical lead for the
project. If you have questions, Alex Stinson, the Foundation’s GLAM-Wiki
strategist, will be leading the community engagement and communications for
the project until we hire a community liaison as part of the grant. Stay
tuned for more details about the project in the coming months.

We’re excited to be able to support this project, and look forward to your
participation in its development.

Thank you,

Wes Moran and Maggie Dennis

*Wes Moran, Vice President of Product*
*Maggie Dennis, Interim Chief of Community Engagement *
*Wikimedia Foundation*

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_P._Sloan_Foundation
[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Sloan_Grant
[3] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/01/09/sloan-foundation-structured-data
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikipack Africa call for application open

2016-11-21 Thread Florence Devouard

Information sent to African Wikimedians as well as Wikimedia mailing 
lists. Please do not hesitate to relay to anyone you think could be 
interested.


-

What is Wikipack Africa ?

WikiPack Africa is an action pack containing devices, material and 
content to facilitate the outreach work done by local Wikimedia 
chapters, local Wikimedia User Groups and isolated individuals in 
African countries. The pack allows for ongoing training and contribution 
even when technology, access and electricity outages fail or are not 
available at all.
It operates thanks to a Raspberry server and an off-line editing 
environment that mimics the Wikipedia called WikiFundi. WikiFundi, the 
offline editing environment, is to be used in the training of 
Wikipedians and the development of articles by groups.


In addition to WikiFundi, the Raspberry PI will also be loaded with 
off-line copies of Wikipedia, select WikiBooks, Wiktionary and a 
resource pack that will assist with and support contribution to 
Wikipedia. Other outreach and reading resources will also be part of the 
packs. All digital resources and the application platform are available 
under a free licence. When delivered, the Wikipack Africa will also 
comprise some offline materials (posters, leaflets, pull-up banner, 
tee-shirts, etc.).


The langages implemented are French and English.

More information available at

* https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipack_Africa
* https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiFundi
Documentation on meta is available in both langages

The current call for application is meant to be a pilot for the Wikipack 
Africa. We have a limited number of servers available, so please only 
make a request if you really intend to use the pack and are confronted 
to connectivity issues.


Please note: should your request be granted, there will be an obligation 
to  provide details of its use, and usefulness as a tool for outreach in 
the form of a survey. This could be requested several times up to 12 
months after you have received the unit. This is meant to evaluate the 
userfulness of the tool as well as identify issues or to help us take 
into account improvement requests in a future release.


How to apply

Link : http://tinyurl.com/j78yyk3

Answers may be provided in French or English.

For any further information, please contact Anthere or Isla.


Who did that ?

The project has been conceptualised and conceived by Florence Devouard 
and Isla Haddow-Flood.
The project is run in partnership with Wikimedia CH and the Orange 
Foundation and is primarily implemented by Florence, Isla, and Emmanuel 
Engelhart (the Kiwix master).



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikimedia Foundation welcomes Victoria Coleman as Chief Technology Officer

2016-11-03 Thread Florence Devouard


Excellent news. Welcome Victoria !

Florence

Le 02/11/2016 à 19:49, Samantha Lien a écrit :

This press release is available online here:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_welcomes_Victoria_Coleman_as_Chief_Technology_Officer


And also as a post on the Wikimedia blog here:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/11/02/victoria-coleman-chief-technology-officer/



Wikimedia Foundation welcomes Victoria Coleman as Chief Technology Officer


Victoria brings more than 20 years of experience leading development and
strategy for complex technologies at scale

San Francisco, California November 2, 2016 – The Wikimedia Foundation is
pleased to announce Victoria Coleman as our new Chief Technology
Officer. As the Foundation's senior technology executive, Victoria will
be responsible for setting the vision and strategy for technology and
operations behind the Wikimedia projects, in cooperation with the global
communities of volunteer contributors, users, and researchers. Her first
day is 7 November 2016.

The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization behind
Wikipedia, one of the world’s largest and most popular web properties.
The organization also operates 11 other Wikimedia projects
,
including MediaWiki, the open-source wiki software that powers Wikimedia
projects and many other online collaborations. Together, the Wikimedia
sites are visited by hundreds of millions of people each month from
every corner of the globe.

The Chief Technology Officer oversees the organization’s Technology
department  and
technical roadmap, and is responsible for the evolution, development,
and delivery of our core platforms and architecture. In this role,
Victoria will work closely with the Wikimedia Foundation’s technology
teams to ensure an accessible and performant technology infrastructure
and anticipate scale and capability challenges for the Wikimedia projects.

“Victoria brings the right combination of deep technical knowledge,
operational expertise, and the steady hand that is needed in this unique
role, ” said Katherine Maher, Executive Director of the Wikimedia
Foundation. “Her experience leading development for a wide array of
technology platforms at scale, as well as her love for education and
passion for our mission, make her an excellent addition to our
leadership team.”

Victoria has more than 20 years of experience in consumer and enterprise
technology. She is a strong leader with expertise in strategy and
development in software engineering, mobile platforms, connected
devices, cyber security, and web services, and has been a longtime
advocate for innovation in education and the public sector.

“Over the past 15 years, Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects have
radically changed how people access knowledge,” Victoria said. “But the
vast majority of people today still don’t use or have access to these
resources. As we look ahead, we’ll consider how we can grow and evolve
our technologies to support the Wikimedia vision: a world where every
person has access to all knowledge. I look forward to collaborating with
the existing team at the Foundation and the Wikimedia communities in
this important work.”

Most recently, Victoria served as Senior Vice President and Chief
Technology Officer for the Connected Home Division of Technicolor, where
she was responsible for innovation strategy, product management,
technology roadmaps, and technical due diligence for acquisitions and
partnerships. Previously, as Senior Vice President of Research and
Development at Harman, she led the core technology platforms of the
Infotainment Division including systems and software, media, tuner,
navigation, connectivity, and advanced driver assist systems.

As Vice President Engineering at Yahoo! Inc., where she led Yahoo!
membership, web presentation technologies such as the Yahoo! User
Interface Library, mobile web services, notification services, backend
SDKs including accounts and messaging, mobile application testing, and
the Yahoo! Developer Network. Before joining Yahoo!, Victoria served as
Vice President, Emerging Technologies at Nokia, Vice President, Software
Engineering of Hewlett-Packard’s webOS global business unit, and Vice
President of Samsung's Advanced Institute of Technology. She has also
held director roles at Intel and SRI International, in security
technology and system design, respectively.

Before joining SRI International, Victoria was a Reader in Computer
Science for two years at Queen Mary and Westfield College and a Lecturer
in Computer Science at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College for six
years, both at the

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