Maybe we should also fill the knowledge gap on how Wikimedia's footprint
could be reduced, if that isn't too complex ;-)

On Tue, 14 Dec 2021 at 17:14, Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for organizing this again.  'Getting more complex' is right...
>
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 8:00 AM Alex Stinson <astin...@wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Reminder that the conversation hour for #WikiForHumanRights starts in 2
>> hours at 1500 UTC. If you are interested in organizing for this next year,
>> we hope to see you there,
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Alex Stinson
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 2:39 PM Alex Stinson <astin...@wikimedia.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> *TL:DR --* Join us for a Conversation hour December 14 at 1500 UTC to
>>> learn how to organize for WikiForHumanRights 2022.
>>>
>>> Hello Everyone!
>>>
>>> #WikiForHumanRights: Right to a Healthy Environment  2022 [1]is back!
>>> From April 15  through to June 14 2022 we encourage local affiliates,
>>> individuals or organizations interested in the campaign to organize
>>> activities around the intersecting themes of human rights and the
>>> environment.
>>>
>>> If you are interested in organizing your community for the campaign,
>>> please join us for a conversation hour on December 14 at 1500 UTC [4]
>>> (more details below) to learn how you can participate.
>>>
>>>
>>> Why the Right to a Healthy Environment?
>>>
>>> This October, the Right to a Healthy Environment was formally recognized
>>> [1] by the United Nations Human Rights Council. According to Michelle
>>> Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights:
>>>
>>> "A safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment is the foundation
>>> of human life. But today, because of human action – and inhuman inaction –
>>> the triple planetary crises of climate change, pollution, and nature loss
>>> is directly and severely impacting a broad range of rights, including the
>>> rights to adequate food, water, education, housing, health, development,
>>> and even life itself."[2]
>>>
>>> The environmental crisis is getting more complex. Humanity needs to make
>>> thousands of big and small decisions to address it. As the UN Environmental
>>> Program described it, we need to make “Peace with Nature”[3] and protect
>>> the human rights of the most vulnerable.
>>>
>>> Wikipedia and other platforms need to fill the knowledge gaps at the
>>> intersection of sustainability and human rights in every context and
>>> language.  The world needs access to reliable information about the link
>>> between environmental sustainability and human rights.
>>>
>>> What can you do? Help us organize!
>>>
>>> We need your help! The campaign will officially launch on April 15 (one
>>> week before Earth Day), but we need your help now to begin preparing this
>>> global call to action.
>>>
>>> Last year we had 24 community-led editathons, workshops, webinars, and
>>> writing contests, with contributions to over 2000 articles in more than 40
>>> languages. To match (and hopefully exceed) these impacts, we need your help
>>> to organize your local communities!
>>>
>>> Activities related to human rights and sustainability are good topics
>>> for local communities to both a) identify new partners, b) recruit
>>> enthusiastic participants and c) fill key topics for impact in their own
>>> language or context.
>>>
>>> Join the Conversation to learn more!
>>>
>>> Join us for 1.5 hours of conversation Tuesday the 14th December 2021
>>> 15:00 UTC on Zoom <https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/84871090509> [4], to
>>> learn more about:
>>>
>>>    -
>>>
>>>    How you can participate in this campaign and organize local events
>>>    in your community or region.
>>>    -
>>>
>>>    Which topics this campaign will target, and how you can connect with
>>>    subject matter experts, partners, and other resources to support 
>>> successful
>>>    content creation activities.
>>>    -
>>>
>>>    How the Wikimedia Foundation Campaigns team can support you in
>>>    designing your event and doing targeted outreach to potential 
>>> contributors
>>>    drawn to these topics.
>>>
>>> Organizers can find more information at this (still under development): page
>>> on Meta   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights>[5]
>>>
>>> If you want to join us as an organizer, please join our Telegram Group
>>> <https://t.me/joinchat/k_W9SVMG5K44YjJh>[6]
>>>
>>> If you have any questions send us an email at campai...@wikimedia.org
>>>
>>>
>>> Looking forward to hearing you in the conversation,
>>>
>>> Ruby Damenshie-Brown and Alex Stinson
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/10/1102582
>>>
>>> [2]
>>> https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=27443
>>>
>>> [3] https://www.unep.org/interactive/making-peace-nature/
>>>
>>> [4] https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/84871090509
>>>
>>> [5]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights
>>>
>>> [6] https://t.me/joinchat/k_W9SVMG5K44YjJh
>>>
>>> --
>>> Alex Stinson
>>> Senior Program Strategist
>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>> Twitter: @sadads
>>>
>>> Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and
>>> other Wikimedia projects create calls to action to invite new contributors
>>> through campaigns: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Alex Stinson
>> Senior Program Strategist
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>> Twitter: @sadads
>>
>> Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
>> Wikimedia projects create calls to action to invite new contributors
>> through campaigns: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns
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