Hi everyone,
Wikidata's 10th anniversary is coming in the following days and the social
media accounts start to talk about it, mostly from institutional/official
Wikimedia profiles. That's really good! As one of the responsibles of the
microblogging handles of the Catalan Wikimedia projects, we are also thinking
on a good coverage on Twitter for next weekend, to publicly explain its
advantages, successes and uses to free knowledge.
I'd like to remind that we are a multilingual movement and that both Wikidata
and also networks like Twitter are really active in other languages than
English. For this reason, being #Wikidata10 the most neutral and easy hashtag,
I do not really get why #WikidataBirthday was the final choice to communicate
this milestone. This obviously masks outreach efforts from other languages
without being contingent upon English-speaking contexts.
Similar cases have happened in the past. For example, #Wikipedia20 was huge on
Twitter in January 2021 by @Wikipedia and @Wikimedia, but then the WMF comms
team utterly ommited to consider the rest of birthdays of the first group of
non-English versions along the year (luckily the good press did its work and
covered well many of those languages when their 20 years arrived). Please,
remember that it may seem a small detail, but these things -a simple hashtag
without anglocentric vision- also make a difference on language perspective
(especially after such a time, money and human-consuming Strategy 2030 that
boasts about equity and diversity).
We'll certainly use #Wikidata10 and we encourage other languages to do the same.
Thank you for giving it a thought.
Best,
Xavier Dengra
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