[Wikimedia-l] Re: [WikiForHumanRights 2024] Learn how to identify topics for the campaign!

2024-03-12 Thread Euphemia Uwandu
Hi Everyone, Happy New Week :) A reminder that the WikiForHumanRights Topic identification workshop is happening this week on Friday 15 March 2024 at 15:00 UTC. Register to join if you haven't already.

[Wikimedia-l] Roses are red, Salicyna made their links blue and we are here, to Wikicelebrate her with you!

2024-03-12 Thread Natalia Szafran
Hi all, Once again we celebrate an exceptional Wikimedian, this time - an admin, a contributor, a person with many roles in Wikimedia projects. Salicyna knows the struggle of lacking access to knowledge all too well. Growing up in rural

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Dagbani Wikimedians User Group 2023 Annual Report

2024-03-12 Thread Abdul-Rasheed Yussif
Hi Florence, Thank you very much for the compliments. We are grateful! Regards, Abdul-Rasheed On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 10:16 PM Florence Devouard wrote: > Abdul-Rasheed... > > I am so impressed by the quality of your annual report... and generally by > the excellent maintenance of your UG

[Wikimedia-l] A Red Wikibase for every Wikipedia

2024-03-12 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The two biggest technical changes that had a huge impact on all our projects were first Commons and then Wikidata. Commons centralised pictures in one location and this saved Wikimedia a huge amount in storage costs. Wikidata centralised all the interwiki links in one database and it stopped

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2024 Selection

2024-03-12 Thread Dariusz Jemielniak
Dear all, (This message is also available in Arabic, French, Igbo, and more here) This year, the term of 4 (four) Community- and Affiliate-selected Trustees on the Wikimedia Foundation

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Roses are red, Salicyna made their links blue and we are here, to Wikicelebrate her with you!

2024-03-12 Thread Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz
Congratulations Salicyna, you deserved it! For those of you who don't edit Polish Wikipedia (you really should, people there are amazing!), if you see an article edited by Salicyna you can be sure that it meets all the criteria. Most of her DidYouKnow articles go through confirmation without any

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Roses are red, Salicyna made their links blue and we are here, to Wikicelebrate her with you!

2024-03-12 Thread Wilson Oluoha
This was a beautiful read. My interest in Polish Wikipedia and life in rural Poland has just piqued. Congratulations Salicyna, You've got a new fan. Thank you Natalia for writing so beautifully too. Best, On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 5:28 PM Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz <