[Wikimedia-l] Re: Creating new Wikidata items for all Commons categories

2021-12-18 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, As long as we can not confidently search for pictures in any language I really wonder what the point is of such an exercise. In my opinion we should prioritise measurable effects for our users. Something like: "A nine year old will find pictures in his or her language on all the subjects of

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Approval of Human Rights Policy

2021-12-18 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, What Jimmy does or does not from within his own organisation has nothing to do with the Wikimedia Foundation. You know that.. Thanks, GerardM On Thu, 9 Dec 2021 at 22:20, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > Given the topic of human rights, I would like to point out that we have > not had any

[Wikimedia-l] Introducing the Wikimedia Wikimedia Affiliates Environmental Sustainability Covenant

2021-12-18 Thread Lukas Mezger
Dear Wikimedia friends, I am writing to introduce the Wikimedia Affiliates Environmental Sustainability Covenant, a cross-affiliate initiative aimed at reducing the environmental impact of the Wikimedia Movement.[1] This initiative was born out of discussions about how to take action against the

[Wikimedia-l] Creating new Wikidata items for all Commons categories

2021-12-18 Thread Mike Peel
Hi all, Over the last few years, over 3.6 million Wikimedia Commons categories have gained an infobox that displays information from Wikidata in the reader's language. I would like to see this expanded so that all Commons categories have a multilingual infobox. I've started an RfC about

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Creating new Wikidata items for all Commons categories

2021-12-18 Thread Paulo Santos Perneta
I hope we are not forced to connect Commons categories to Wikipedia categories because of that, which has been a nasty side effect of connecting things through Wikidata, due to misunderstanding the Gallery space in Commons and taking it for some kind of equivalent to articles, which it is not in

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Approval of Human Rights Policy

2021-12-18 Thread geni
On Sat, 11 Dec 2021 at 00:29, wrote: > As I stated in the conversation hour [2], the Foundation urgently needs such > a policy in order to meet our responsibility to protect members of our > community from real, growing threats in the world. More governments are > increasingly aggressive about