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[African Wikimedians] WikiIndaba Conference 2022
by Bobby Shabangu 17 May '22

17 May '22

Dear Friends, On behalf of the WikiIndaba Steering Committee (WISCom <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Indaba_Steering_Committee>), I would like to announce that the next WikiIndaba Conference <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Indaba> for 2022 will be organised by Wikimedia Usergroup Rwanda. The conference will take place between 4 and 6 November 2022 in a hybrid format where participants will attend online and in person in Kigali, Rwanda. This comes after an invitation to bid was sent to all African affiliates by WISCom early in April, and several good and deserving candidates responded. A rigorous selection process then followed which considered several factors including candidates’ motivational statements, capacity to host the conference, bringing the conference to a region where it has not been held before and if there were national elections planned in the applicant's country for this year. More details about scholarships and programme will be provided later. We look forward to supporting and working with Wikimedia UG Rwanda to ensure the conference becomes a success. Best regards, Bobby Shabangu WISCom <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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Wikimania 2022 Grants and Program Submissions OPEN
by Antoni Mtavangu 17 May '22

17 May '22

Dear Wiki Community, *Wikimania: The Festival Edition!* will be taking place on *11-14 August 2022*. Wikimania is the Wikimedia movement's annual conference celebrating all the free and open knowledge projects made possible by the volunteer community. This year's Wikimania will bring Wikimedians together to create, celebrate and connect, virtually and with in-person components. We are super excited to let you know that *the* *Program submissions and grant applications are open today!* For programming, we are looking for sessions that are fun, regionally-focused, and welcome newcomers. For grants and scholarships, we will be providing affiliate grants to fund the organizing of Wikimania local events, and also offering scholarships for individual attendees to enable their participation in Wikimania 2022. Please <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/05/09/wikimania-2022-grants-and-program-sub…>read our post on Diff <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/05/09/wikimania-2022-grants-and-program-sub…> for everything you need to know. Thanks and looking forward to seeing you all at Wikimania! Antoni Mtavangu (on behalf of the 2022 Wikimania COT)

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[Small wiki toolkits] Fourth Bots workshop at Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 (May 20-22nd)
by Srishti Sethi 16 May '22

16 May '22

Hello everyone, The fourth workshop on the topic of "Running popular bots on wikis" is coming up - several sessions will be run as part of it at the upcoming Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 (May 20-22nd). You can find more details on the workshop here: < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Workshops#How_to_run_a_…> [1]. This workshop will introduce participants to a few popular bots in the Wikimedia ecosystem, how to set them up on the wikis, and tackle problems concerning the setup. This workshop will organize three sessions around InternetArchiveBot, YoBot, and SuggestBot. See more details < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306593> [2]. We look forward to your participation! Best, Srishti On behalf of the SWT Workshops Organization team [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Workshops#How_to_run_a_… [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306593 *Srishti Sethi* Senior Developer Advocate Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Wikimedia Portugal Annual General Meeting and 2021 activity report
by Gonçalo Themudo 16 May '22

16 May '22

Dear all, Wikimedia Portugal held its Annual meeting this weekend where we approved our activities and financial report [1], and the activity plan for 2022 [2]. We invite you to read it. It is only in portuguese at the moment, but we will provide an english translation soon! We will later this year hold an electoral meeting to elect a new Direcção. [1] https://pt.wikimedia.org/wiki/Relat%C3%B3rios/Anual/2021 [2] https://pt.wikimedia.org/wiki/Plano_de_atividades/2022 Thank you! Gonçalo Themudo *Presid**ente* *Wikimedia Portugal* *Email: *go <goncalo.themudo(a)wikimedia.pt>ncalo.themudo(a)wikimedia.pt <goncalo.themudo(a)wikimedia.pt> *Website: *http://pt.wikimedia.org <https://sites.google.com/view/themudo> *Imagine um mundo onde cada ser humano pode partilhar livremente a soma de todo o conhecimento, na sua própria língua.*

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WIKIMOVE Podcast #2: ‘Communitizing’ strategy - Insights from Wiki Movimento Brasil
by Eva Martin 16 May '22

16 May '22

Dear all, We are excited to be dropping the second episode <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WIKIMOVE/Podcast>of WIKIMOVE, the new podcast on everything Wikimedia Movement Strategy. What’s in this episode? Wiki Movimento Brasil surveyed the Portuguese speaking communities about some of the big juicy concepts in the MS20230 recommendations - equity in decision making, leadership development and diversity. By doing that, they reached many community members not previously engaged. In this pod they talk about the insights, opportunities and challenges that emerged. These Wikimedians are showing the way of how we can make the strategy come to life at community level, and jointly figure out what our next steps are locally and regionally. resources. We also talk about money, building communities and the Movement Charter Drafting Committee…. Our guests are… Érica Azzellini, Community Manager at Wiki Movimento Brasil Érica is in charge of community support, partnerships and strategy development at Wiki Movimento Brasil. She is also a member of the movement charter drafting committee. Lucas Piantá, Wiki Movimento Brazil’s Strategy Working Group Works as researcher on the movement strategy implementation in the lusophone community. He serves on a number of committees including the Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Committee. You can find the audio podcast on our website <https://www.wikimedia.de/en/wikimove/>and a video version *with english and portuguese subtitles* on Youtube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4Jl1-BPyGw>. Please visit our meta page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WIKIMOVE> to react to the episode and subscribe to get notified of each new release. You can also follow us on Twitter <https://twitter.com/wikimove> to continue the conversation. The topic and guests for our next episode will be announced soon, stay tuned! Best, Nicole, Nikki & Eva -- Eva Martin Project Assistant Movement Strategy and Global Relations Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 30 219 158 26-0 https://wikimedia.de Keep up to date! Current news and exciting stories about Wikimedia, Wikipedia and Free Knowledge in our newsletter (in German): https://www.wikimedia.de/newsletter/ Wikimedia Deutschland – Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

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Announcing a 3rd funding round for Conference Fund in 2022
by Chen Almog 15 May '22

15 May '22

Hello everyone, *TL;DR*: Given the community need for in-person events, we are opening a 3rd funding round for Conference funds for events taking place in September - December 2022. This condensed round will be for events already in planning. Proposal deadline is June 13, but you are encouraged to submit your proposal earlier if possible. ________ Recently we announced the removal of the Covid travel restrictions <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/03/29/announcement-of-the-removal-of-the-co…>, and we are now welcoming proposals to support travel again. Since the announcement, we have heard many communities expressing the urgency and desire to convene and resume plans of hosting in-person global events. We wish to respond to that need, and therefore, we have decided to open a 3rd funding round for Conference Fund 2022, to allow communities who have already started planning their events for the last quarter of 2022, an opportunity to submit a proposal. *This will be an expedited round, *meaning - shorter turnaround time, *for events already in planning* for late 2022. This condensed round is designed to support events in September - December, so we have to be able to finalize decisions by June. We know what it takes to organize and host a global event. It requires a lot of capacity, time, volunteers, and planning resources. If you haven’t started organizing your conference, or if you have the option to delay it until the next round in September - we highly encourage you to take the time you need to properly plan. *Who should consider applying to the 3rd round?* - If you already have event planning underway for September - December 2022, with a clear vision, capacity to organize and a proven community interest. - If you started planning this event 2 years ago and had to pause due to the pandemic, and now can undertake the effort quickly. - If you started planning a small scale event, limited by the previous restrictions, and now wish to adjust your existing plans to include international travel that can be coordinated easily, and require more funding. This new round *will not replace* round 1 for 2022-2023 (proposal deadline is September 5 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference>). So if you are thinking of hosting an event in early 2023 - you should wait for the September round. *The 3rd round timeline:* June 13, 2022 - proposal deadline June 14 - June 28, 2022 - Staff eligibility review and feedback June 29 - July 6, 2022 - Revision July 6 - July 12, 2022 - Finalizing + Announcements You are welcome to submit your proposal before June 13. The sooner you submit and inform us, higher the chances we can process your application faster. If you have any questions, or want to consult, please reach out to us on conferencegrants(a)wikimedia.org On behalf of the Conference & Events fund program, Chen -- Chen Almog (she/her) · חן אלמוג Senior Program Officer Conference & Events Grants Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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The May Round Of 1Lib1Ref Starts Tomorrow 15 May 2022
by Felix Nartey 14 May '22

14 May '22

Hello fellow Wikimedians, librarians, bibliophiles, and information enthusiasts, The May round of the 2022 1Lib1Ref <https://1lib1ref.org/> starts just tomorrow 15 May 2022 and will run until 5th June 2022. Are you going to be joining us to improve the reliability of Wikipedia's content for the billions of readers who rely on Wikipedia as a source of information? In the past year or so we have been piloting different modes of participation in the campaign. In May 2021 we encouraged adding sources on Wikidata, in January 2022 we improved on that, added opportunities to create Wikidata items related to works on Wikisource, and added 9 new languages from the CEE on citation hunt <https://citationhunt.toolforge.org/en?id=3c84e6ae>. We are encouraging the addition of references to decrease gender bias on Wikipedia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Participate#…> and 12 new languages from Africa, and Asia in the upcoming May round. If you are already familiar with the campaign or editing on Wikipedia and would like to experiment a bit, we invite you to try our new contribution methods for advanced contributors <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Participate#…> in the May 2022 round. If you are an organizer, remember to add your local event(s) to the campaign dashboard <https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/1lib1ref_may_2022/overview>, so we can learn and track activities happening across the world. Read more about the campaign at the blog post on Diff <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/05/11/the-may-round-for-1lib1ref-is-back-wi…> . Join us to improve the reliability of Wikipedia articles one source at a time! -- Felix Nartey Senior Program Officer, Campaigns Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Re: Building Partnerships and Identifying and Addressing Harassment Online self-guided courses now available on WikiLearn platform
by Geert Van Pamel 14 May '22

14 May '22

Mike, The new course platform is really "intended to serve the entire Wikimedia movement!" - opposite to what you believe; you have access via your Wikimedia account. The platform is a real MOOC platform, unlike other MediaWiki powered sites. Geert Van Pamel

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Wikimedia Hackathon May 20-22: Info about helper roles and how to create interactive sessions
by Melinda Seckington 13 May '22

13 May '22

Hi all, The Wikimedia Hackathon <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022> is 1 week away, on May 20-22. As promised, a few more updates: We are looking for people to help us run an awesome and smooth event! If you’re interested in helping with facilitating a room or newcomer support, you can add your name to the Helper Roles page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022/Schedule/RoomShifts> . There’s still time to add a session or social activity. You can pick an open slot in the category which fits your topic and add the session directly to the schedule <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022/Schedule>. Want to learn how to make your session interactive? Read this guide <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022/Schedule/Sessions#T…> on how to create fun, interactive sessions! We previously shared details on how to propose a session <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022/Schedule/Sessions#H…> and how to prepare for a session <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022/Schedule/Sessions#H…> . We look forward to seeing you next week! Melinda, for the hackathon committee -- Melinda Seckington Developer Advocacy Manager Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Wikimedia Summit 2022 – Participants' list
by Nicole Ebber 13 May '22

13 May '22

Dear all, We are pleased to inform you that the affiliate participants' list for the hybrid Wikimedia Summit <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2022/Participants%27_list>[1] is now available on Meta. This list indicates the number of on-site and online representatives for each affiliate. A detailed explanation of the application review process has also been published. As pointed out in our announcement <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org…>[2] and the application form, all answers provided to the three questions around Movement Strategy will be published on Meta next week. This overview of each affiliate’s interest and engagement in Wikimedia 2030 creates transparency in the application process, indicates opportunities for exchange and partnerships, and will inform the Summit program. == Registration for on-site participation == The registration process will start next week. Each participant travelling to Berlin will receive an individual access link to fill out the registration form on our event platform. These are personal access links, please do not share them. All questions concerning visa requirements and travel management should be directed to us via the event platform only, using the chat function. == Registration for online participation == If your affiliate is eligible but you missed the application deadline, please send us an email at wmsummit(a)wikimedia.de to let us know that you would like to attend the Summit online. Each eligible affiliate will be able to send up to 3 representatives to attend the meeting.[3] More information about the registration process for online attendance will follow in July. The application and registration process is conducted in a time of transformation for our movement. We very much look forward to the moment when the movement charter eventually outlines equitable rules and processes for participation in what we assume will be the movement’s annual general meeting. We can’t wait to see you – both online and on-site during the Summit! Kind regards, The Wikimedia Summit team [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2022/Participants%27_list [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org… [3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org… -- Nicole Ebber Director Movement Strategy and Global Relations Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 (0)30-577 11 62-0 https://wikimedia.de Keep up to date! Current news and exciting stories about Wikimedia, Wikipedia and Free Knowledge in our newsletter (in German): https://www.wikimedia.de/newsletter/ Wikimedia Deutschland – Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

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