User talk:Asaf (WMF)/Archive

Note on transition

This is a new account for my activities as WMF staff. Until Oct 1st 2014, I have performed my WMF duties from my volunteer account, i.e. I was using only one account. That account will be used only for volunteer contributions to the projects after Oct 1st 2014. Asaf (WMF) (talk) 21:24, 27 September 2014 (UTC)

Importer and Endorsement

a) Could you refer anyone with importer's rights here on Meta, I want to import few templates from En Wp or suggest me where to request such imports. b) And you amy also see and endorse wikipedia:User_talk:Titodutta#WMIN_Infrastructure_Scholarship_endorsements --Tito☸Dutta 12:21, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

• Endorsement not needed. Its is done. --Tito☸Dutta 18:31, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

Re: Emerging Wikimedia Communities

Hah, so you finally managed to get rid of the term "global south" in your title. :D --Nemo 08:23, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Yes. It only took 3.5 years... Under cover of the general tumult, you know. :) At least fewer kittens would die. ;-p Ijon (talk) 08:29, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Interview for news report

I would like to interview you regarding your Wikipedia contributions to "Participatory grantmaking", for a news story that I am writing. Please contact ResearchBiz -at- gmail, to discuss. I appreciate your cooperation. - FebAfterneun (talk) 12:04, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Failed Wikimedia Australia collaboration

Dear Asaf—I've noted your comments and below them have set out a number of requests for clarification. I'm sorry that we should have to deal with things that happened more than a year ago in a previous portfolio, but I think you'll agree when you read my queries that they're important to resolve. Thank you for your time. Tony (talk) 14:06, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

Actually, User:Tony1, I'm not sure I agree your queries are important to resolve. What is the benefit of spending more time on this, at this point? To be clear, I do not count "bashing WMAU's Committee" a benefit. Please help me understand how we'd be serving the mission by engaging further on this. Asaf (WMF) (talk) 00:19, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

Asaf—I had assumed it was part of your job to respond to queries about the logic and evidence-base on which you have expressed very strong opinions; the assumptions appear to underlie surprisingly negative and blunt assessments of a previous chapter committee and of a program for which you apparently read nothing of the actual application—relying instead on hearsay. In fact, "bashing WMAU's Committee" is exactly what you have done—to a previous committee.

You want help in understanding how transparency in this matter would serve the mission? That's easy: the mission is badly served by a chapter that is practically dormant and non-transparent, despite spending some 3/4 of the $200,000+ of donors' money it raised in 2010. Transparency is a WMF priority. My expectation is that you're not working against that. You would do the mission a favour by being candid, rather than starting from a desire to disregard a major issue in a chapter.

If you do not respond, the default explanation is that you accept the implications of the questions—that you based your comments on highly skewed evidence from a Wikimedian who had already distorted advice he has sought from another WMF staff member (Phillipe—you knew about that one, which is on both public and private record). My assumption is that you won't mind my characterising your failure to respond as an acceptance that the questions I've set out point to a very bad situation. Tony (talk) 04:00, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

Your response shows that you're willing to allow non-transparency and, frankly, dishonesty, among affiliates. It's very disappointing. Tony (talk) 03:41, 21 April 2015 (

Wikimedia CEE meeting on Wikimedia Conference 2015

Dear Asaf,

Hereby I inform You that Wikimedia CEE meet-up on Wikimedia Conference 2015 will take place Friday, May 15 6.00 p.m.-9.00 p.m. at the conference venue (Verlag Der Tagesspiegel, Askanischer Platz 3, Berlin). You can find more information about the meeting here. You are more than welcome to attend!

Thank you for your kind attention and CEE you soon! --Kaarel Vaidla (WM EE) (talk) 23:08, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

Konkani Wikipedia discussion

Hello Asaf, Please see Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Goan_Konkani#Request_to_the_community_and_to_LangCom_to_include_the_Latin_script_articles Regards, The Discoverer (talk) 07:12, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

Audio recording permission confirmation

Hi, could you please confirm your permission for cc by-sa on this audio recording from wmuacon (by adding your signature in the permission field)? I'll upload more recordings soon, but we need this one first to announce the discussion about community capacity development on ukwiki. Thanks :) --Yury Bulka (talk) 21:12, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

Done Asaf (WMF) (talk) 22:18, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

Geowiki

Hi Asaf! I would have a few data requests regarding the Geowiki data (entirely personal, this is not me as a Board member speaking): would you have the data for Commons, Wikidata, and "Total"? (And just out of curiosity, hr and uz?) If it is not too much of a hassle, thank you! --denny (talk) 23:30, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

Hi, Denny.

I have now added Croatian, Uzbek, and Country totals. The data I am drawing on is not generated per-country for Commons or Wikidata, but the total active editor counts for those projects are available on stats.wikimedia.org. Ijon (talk) 09:59, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

Thank you, Asaf! Pity we don't have the data for Wikidata and Commons, but thanks for the uz and hr data! --denny (talk) 18:14, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

Apology

mailarchive:wikimedia-l/2016-January/080978.html is potentially relevant for this page (maybe as a link?). Nemo 21:08, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Sure! Thanks for pointing this out. Ijon (talk) 23:23, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Barnstar of Integrity

Barnstar of Integrity

Asaf, sometimes we agree and sometimes we don't. Regarding the challenging situation with WMF governance I appreciate your outspokenness, courage, and support of Wikimedia values. Here's to the future. --Pine^✉ 23:37, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you, Pine! :) Ijon (talk) 02:14, 27 February 2016 (UTC)

Facebook comment

Hi Asaf. Regarding your comment:

"... I have long lamented the paucity of attention at WMF to issues of quality (ostensibly one of the five strategic goals identified back in 2010), and how it was pretty much ignored because it was (correctly) understood to be hard to measure. But if you only measure what's easy, you create very skewed incentives."

I'm particularly interested in just one aspect of our quality: the reliability (mainly accuracy and neutrality) of our assertions. If you combine accuracy and neutrality and call that combination "reliability", then reliability far outranks both platforms and rich content as the chief concern of our readers and the wider volunteer community.

I think the best way to determine the reliability of our content is to subject it to rigorous expert peer-review. I'm presently working with en:BMJ's editors. They have recruited some of the world's top experts on Parkinson's disease to check en:Parkinson's disease for accuracy, neutrality, completeness and up-to-dateness. The review in progress is here

BMJ is happy to offer this service for more of our good and featured articles. I'd like them to take on another nineteen, for starters, and then write up and publish a report on the results.

One thing I'm having a problem with is the reviewers' extreme reluctance to use wikitext. (I've explained the background here); and, anyway, we don't have any tools for reviewers. So the initial review happened off-wiki on a shared Word document, using Word's Review/Track changes feature. I then manually replicated Word's tracked changes in a basic wiki table, one column displaying the proposed changes in each paragraph and the adjacent column for discussion. Manually replicating Word's tracked changes is quite an arduous task and I'm not looking forward to having to do that for the next nineteen.

I'd like the WMF to build a reviewer tool, something like Word's Review/Track changes feature. I don't want to apply for money to get this done, because I haven't a clue where to get the technicians to do it. I want the WMF to do it - to take it on. How do I get that onto the WMF's agenda?

A review tool would be very useful for general editing discussion, too. And if this BMJ pilot works out, I'll be expanding my reliability project to include many more journals and topic areas, who will also benefit from an easy review tool. I'm hoping extremely rigorous expert review will become the natural next step for all articles that reach featured status. I'm happy to answer any questions you might have. --Anthonyhcole (talk) 06:42, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi, Anthony. Thank you for this excellent initiative with the BMJ.

You'll be glad to hear something like this already exists! It is the brainchild of Estonian Wikipedian Ivo Kruusamägi, and it is called WikiComment. Ivo dreamt it up out of frustration with wikitext as a medium for going over student assignments in the context of the Wikipedia Education Program, but has thoughtfully made it generic enough to serve any annotation need, on any Wiki page in any project and any language. It uses the WMF's OAuth provider to authenticate against Wikimedia accounts. I think it's quite a neat tool, and I would like to see it used more widely. We did recently publish a blog post about it. I encourage you to give it a spin and see if it might better suit the BMJ reviewers' preferences. Ivo would be delighted to learn how it goes. Asaf (WMF) (talk) 07:37, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

I've emailed them to ask how to use it. It's not clear either in that blog post or on their landing page. It sounds like it might be very useful. :o) Thank you for the pointer. --Anthonyhcole (talk) 10:48, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

conflict management training

Hi Asaf,

Both Claudia Garád and Alex Wang have pointed me to gather feedback from you about conflict management training. You have given a workshop during the CEE Meeting in Dilijan this year - I have seen the slides on commons about Elephants and Mahouts. Alex told me you have held a three day training about conflict management. I would like to learn more about that.

Currently I'am working on a project grant proposal, see Grants:Project/Wikipedian Effectiveness Training. The idea is to give a communication training to Wikipedians in the Gordon-model. Currenlty I'm following a training myself - and with several extra modules would become a certified trainer - with a license for the Gordon model.

Could you please read the grant proposal and give feedback and recommendations? If you would like to chat or skype about this, let me know so we can schedule something.

Warm regards,

Ad Huikeshoven (talk) 06:54, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Hello! Ad, just a small correction: it was a two day training --アンタナナ 09:51, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Done Asaf (WMF) (talk) 18:17, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Organising a Wikimedia Workshop Buea, Cameroon

Hi Asaf,

I am one of the founders of Wikimedia Community User Group Cameroon and also a volunteer software developer at Wikimedia, and we are about to organize a workshop to help newbies get involved into Wikimedia activities. There is a ticket on phab for the workshop details and discuss and here is the link: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149893. Lea Auregann of Wikimedia Germany wants to send us Swags for the workshop to encourage newbies and improve on awareness of the movement here in Cameroon. I was asking her for a mixed pack of stickers but she told me that she has only Wikidata and Wikipedia so she redirected me to you for the rest. Please I don't know if having a mixed pack of stickers and support for the audience will be possible?

Regards --Alangi derick (talk) 14:51, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

As communicated over e-mail, I'm afraid we won't be able to send you merchandise for this workshop on this schedule. Good luck with your workshop; I'd love to hear how it went.

Also for the record, and as mentioned on Phabricator, there is no recognized user group in Cameroon at this point. Asaf (WMF) (talk) 01:53, 8 November 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, we are still working on being recognized. Sorry for using the wrong wordings about the group. At this point, the group is not yet recognized officially by the Wikimedia Foundation (Affiliate committee). Thanks --Alangi derick (talk) 01:06, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

Hardware donation program

Hi Asaf, do you have any news about the hardware donation program? It has been finish? Thanks. --Jaluj (talk) 20:03, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

Hi, Jaluj. The program is still active; I have been busy with travel and other work, and this program is by definition and necessity a low-priority program at WMF. However, I have now approved your request, and look forward to delivering the laptop to you at Wikimania. Have you gotten a visa yet? Asaf (WMF) (talk) 02:40, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

Yes, I already have my visa. Thank you ASAF! --Jaluj (talk) 22:16, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

Hardware Donation Program

Hello Asaf, I applied for Hardware Donation Program during March. Is that program still active? Any update about the same? --GOPALAKRISHNA (TALK) 07:03, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

Hi, Gopala Krishna A. The program is still active! As indicated in the program description page, it is a low-priority program that does not guarantee any particular timeline for decisions. Decisions are usually made in batches, when new batches of hardware to donate become available. Rest assured your request will be considered in the coming month or two. Asaf (WMF) (talk) 06:59, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

National Barnstar (India)

		National Barnstar (India)
		This is kind of barnstar, I very rarely (or almost never) give to anyone, unless the person truly and really deserves it. Thank you for your continuous support, both in volunteer and professional capacity, to improve and support Indic-language Wikimedia and free knowledge movement. Regards. -- Tito Dutta (talk) 04:04, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

Welcome to Kerala

Hello! Asaf. Hope you are fine. Welcome to India and Kerala.Happy to hear that there is a workshop scheduled to be held on 30th and 31st. I have registered for the event. Though I live 250 kms away from the venue I have made up my mind to be there, to attend your programme. Hopefully see you on 30th August 2.pm.--Drcenjary (talk) 14:34, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

Thank you, Drcenjary! I look forward to seeing you there. My understanding is that the event is to start at 10am, not 2pm. Will you not be able to attend for the whole duration? Asaf (WMF) (talk) 21:03, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

Wikidata workshop in India

Asaf,

I am glad this is happening. I wish I could have attended. Perhaps another time.

I hope the participants realize that Wikidata goes a long way towards converging, collating and structuring the wealth of information on wiki projects. Structured information > collection of information. It is much easier/intuitive to create knowledge out of structured information. To that point, wikidata is one of the more important tools available to information collectors, creators and curators here.

Good luck with the workshop and travels around a marvelous country!

Cheers,

अभय नातू (talk) 13:42, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

community sizes

Hi Asaf, I am on the Wikimania 2018 organising team, and at present have very little idea of how many Wikimedians are based in South Africa, which is where the 2018 Wikimania is to be held (Cape Town). Who do I apply to for demographic information? Cheers, · · · Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 07:46, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

@Pbsouthwood:I'm actually your best source. As discussed on the Phabricator ticket I mentioned, some WMF engineers have privacy concerns about releasing exact numbers. I can tell you that in recent months, there have been between 160 and 180 active editors (5 or more edits per month) of English Wikipedia in South Africa, and between 15 and 25 active editors of Afrikaans Wikipedia in South Africa. The other languages have too few editors to discuss in geographic terms. Asaf (WMF) (talk) 10:51, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Asaf, that is helpful. The tolerance band is adequate for my purposes, as the exact number will necessarily fluctuate depending on the interval chosen.

Do you have numbers for very active editors, or for projects other than Wikipedias?

Thirdly, what does it mean that "the other languages have too few editors to discuss in geographic terms"? Cheers, · · · Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 14:09, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

please come to seoul!

we are welcome you!--Park sung yoon (talk) 12:48, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

WhisperToMe 10 years

Hello, There is a guy in our En WP User:WhisperToMe, an American, he has completed 10 years of Wikipedia-editing and adminship.
In a Wiki-world, where "retiting" is a common thing, we "very rarely" get an editor who is an editor and admin for 10+ years. This is a rare achievement. Plus he has more than 300,000 edits with clear block log.

For last 1 year, I have been asking to give him a reception. People always say that that is a good idea, but nothing really works/goes ahead.
This a discussion where I proposed a reception
Nww, could you arrange a special felicitation by their local chapter (he lives in the US, I forgot state name)? If you read this discussion, few editors suggested "a barnstar". Please NOOO. Something better than barnstar please.
If you absolutely can't help here, could you at least suggest where I can take this? --Tito☸Dutta 13:02, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for this suggestion, Tito. WTM's record is indeed very impressive! I agree it merits recognition, but I'm afraid a modest merchandise package is the best we can offer at this point. We don't generally do anything else for recognition, and the Merchandise giveaways page remains our main mechanism to give out merchandise to great Wikimedians. Could you make your recommendation there? Asaf (WMF) (talk) 20:28, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

• Ah, old memories. I was one of the first and most active participants of that Merchandise project. We had to ask many times to revive/make the process faster. See discussions from here. Now it is here at Meta, I don't watch the page. And today you are directing me to that page. "This" happens with community members. No one knows or gives recognition of their works. (most probably it was a joke, but I am not fully sure. )
  Merchandise and deceased Wikipedians — are the two projects where I worked really hard.
  Anyway, I got a shirt for him. I nominated his name and he has confirmed that he got it long ago.
  10 years' anniversary of adminship and Wiki-editing - I don't know any other editor with similar experience.
  Who will take it forward? I have an incomplete essay at Wikipedia No one cares where I mentioned, an editor, my very good friend, after making "100,000" edits, just "went missing". He either died or something else happened. No one knows. Anyway, a special reception (in their country's next conference or Wikimania or just "anywhere") or newspaper interviews (who arranges these interviews? I see some chapter members are regularly giving interviews) or at least Signpost interview or mention in WMF blog could be very encouraging for him and the common community members who are always neglected. --Tito☸Dutta 21:48, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

I think you are mistaken in thinking WTM's record is unique; it is impressive and rare, but not unique. I'm sure you know as well as I do that there are quite a few members of the ten-year club, and that there are also quite a few people with more than 100K edits (and not just on ENWP, remember). None of them have, to my knowledge, received "a reception" or anything beyond merchandise from WMF. If we were to start flying long-term contributors to SF (or anywhere), we would find ourselves flying hundreds (yes!) of people around the world; that would not be a wise (or even acceptable) use of our donor funds, I think.

I do think it's important to recognize major contributors, and perhaps WTM would appreciate other merchandise beyond that T-shirt. But perhaps a much more meaningful way to recognize WTM would be by WTM's own peers on ENWP, next time they share physical space, i.e. at a WikiConference (there may be another WikiConference USA in a few months) or Wikimania. That would be up to the community to organize, though.

What does make sense to me is, for instance, to invest in funding training and gatherings for experienced admins (such as WTM), thus achieving both an implicit recognition of their importance to the movement and concrete value, in the form of improvement of some admin skills (e.g. conflict resolution) or better alignment with community norms and sense of common purpose with the other participants. Something like this does seem likely in the not-so-far future. Asaf (WMF) (talk) 22:22, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

• You seem to be angry. there are also quite a few people with more than 100K edits (and not just on ENWP, remember) — That is a good point, if there are hundreds of such admin-editors, that is problematic.
  I don't know abut other Wikis, nor I know about desysoped/retired admins. Here is a stat/study of "oldest admins with maximum number of edits" en:User:Titodutta/Ten-year club admins.
  There are 80 or so "10-year members" on En WP. I may try finding i) "active" ii) "admins" and iii) "with 6-digits edit count" among them, it may take time. The stat above shows, WTM is at top "at this moment" (Bearcat is there)
  Your other points are fine. --Tito☸Dutta 05:19, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

Oh, certainly not angry! :) Please don't worry about it. Thanks for compiling that data. Are you going to nominate WTM for more merchandise on that page? I don't see other practical steps at this point; the only way toward other forms of recognition (beyond the in-person recognition possible at events), would be through some community-wide conversation on the general question (and not about WTM specifically, of course). Asaf (WMF) (talk) 01:09, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Thanking/ acknowledging long term volunteers (are admins more desereving than others?)

Sorry for barging in here User: Titodutta and Asaf. The topic of thanking/ acknowledging long term volunteers has been of interest to me for quite some time. w:wp:Miss is a list of editors on the en.wikipedia who are no longer active, but it seems to be a controversial list and has been proposed for deletion several times over the years.

BTW I wonder why some editors believe that Admins are more deserving than other folks with lots of contributions? I don’t believe I have had any direct interaction with User:WhisperToMe, but User:Bearcat who has made a lot of positive contributions also has a dark side, at least where it comes to me personally, and other users who happen to have registered around February 1, 2017. Ottawahitech (talk) 15:18, 16 November 2017 (UTC) Please ping me

You really are something else, you know that? Anything at all that you want to do on Wikipedia is always a "donation" that Wikipedia always has to keep even if it isn't even remotely encyclopedic, and if anybody ever challenges you on any of it that's because they have a "dark side", rather than because you have a blind spot about what is or isn't a worthwhile contribution? To the point that you'll go around raising it in discussions that have nothing whatsoever to do with the person you're complaining about? Get over yourelf, as they used to say when I was a young'un. Bearcat (talk) 15:58, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Yes, I admit it. I am an (officially coming out of the closet) Inclusionist. Any editor convicted of this crime can now expect execution within 5 hours of receiving notice, and their grave-stone removal within a few months.

In my own case I received the notice of the ANI (started by User:World’s Lamest Critic) on 12:28, 1 February 2017 and was indeffed blocked by 17:38, 1 February 2017. My talk-page access was removed six months later (after I posted my own personal experience with a admin who was later desysoped).

BTW Is it me as an editor, or is it the city of Ottawa that makes you see red? After all you contributed ten edits explaining your Delete rationale in an AFD (also started by User:World's Lamest Critic) of an article I tried to create. Despite your very lengthy entry you never once objected to the characterization of Ottawa as a a small Canadian city and even supported it indirectly (referring to the article subject as a local interest) Ottawahitech (talk) 16:47, 29 November 2017 (UTC) Please ping me

Neither you nor Ottawa makes me see red per se; I lived in Ottawa myself for six years of my life, in fact. What does make me see red is poorly sourced and poorly substanced articles about people or things that don't have any credibly encyclopedic claim of notability besides "this [thing/person] exist[s/ed], the end", which is something you did quite a lot of. I'm neither a "deletionist" nor an "inclusionist" per se, just for the record -- the issue is that Wikipedia is not, nor should it be, about everything or everyone that can be single-sourced as merely existing, but about things and people that pass our notability and sourceability standards and not about things and people that don't. And you've had a lot of administrators explain this to you over the years, not just me, and I had nothing whatsoever to do with you getting blocked, either -- yet you seem excessively hung up on the things I've said to you for some reason, as if nobody else had ever told you the same things. Bearcat (talk) 18:51, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

@Bearcat: Do you feel w:Ottawa is a small Canadian city? Ottawahitech (talk) 15:09, 9 December 2017 (UTC) Please ping me

@Bearcat: You said above: you’ve had a lot of administrators explain this to you over the years, not just me, and I had nothing whatsoever to do with you getting blocked, either

• As far as "a lot of administrators explain this to you over the years" I am sorry but I cannot find even one such admin posting on my user talkpage. Can you?
• I checked my user-talkpage and found 24 edits by you. None of those edits had anything to do with explaining this to me. As a matter of fact the first time you "explained" (to whom?) was when you blanked my user-page, more than ten years after I made my first edit, using this edit summary: wrongheaded; Wikipedia is not a place where all content must be kept just because it was "donated" in good faith, but a place where notability needs to be demonstrated with content and sources, and that's the thing Ottawahitech kept missing. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Ottawahitech&diff=next&oldid=809245469

• Are you still claiming you had nothing to do with my block? Ottawahitech (talk) 16:38, 31 December 2017 (UTC) please ping me

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Um, @Bearcat:, @Ottawahitech:, seriously: could you take this elsewhere? It never belonged on my talk page to begin with. Please, just stop, or take it elsewhere. Asaf (WMF) (talk) 16:43, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi Asaf Thank you for your good lecture today. I was sitting on your right side.. May God bless you.. --칼빈500 (talk) 08:30, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

Are you in Korea already? Nobody tells me anything here, sigh. --Hanyangprofessor2 (talk) 08:38, 17 October 2017 (UTC) (That's me, btw --Piotrus (talk) 08:57, 17 October 2017 (UTC))

Brazilian Catalyst Program

Hi, Asaf. I hope you are doing fine. I have sent you an email, but you might have missed it. I am interested in having a better sense of what happened during the Brazilian Catalyst Program, and I am writing to see if you are the right person or if you could introduce to the right person to whom I could documents and data. There seems to be a lot missing on the formal pages associated to this program. Thanks you! Best. --Joalpe (talk) 14:08, 19 October 2017 (UTC)

Need help in setting up Twitter Bot that could post from Wikipedia

Dear Asaf,

Could you help me in setting up a tweetbot that would essentially post Featured Article, On this day... sections to twitter from Telugu Wikipedia. Please connect me with someone who could help me in doing this otherwise. --Rahmanuddin (talk) 06:42, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

Delete a request

Hello sir can you delete this Hardware donation program/Anoop Rao , due to personal reasons i can't edit Wikipedia anymore. ★ Anoop / ಅನೂಪ್ ^✉ _© 09:57, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

I'm sorry to hear that. I have marked the request 'withdrawn'. Asaf (WMF) (talk) 22:19, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Talk page watcher User:Anoop Rao This is sad. Please let us (Tanveer, Gopala or me) know if we can help. You have been an amazing Indian and Kannada Wikimedian, we'd like to see your contribution ahead. Many thanks. -- Tito Dutta (talk) 18:51, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, Tito Dutta,Asaf (WMF). ★ Anoop / ಅನೂಪ್ ^✉ _© 10:12, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Slide template

Hello Asaf,

I was wondering if it could be possible to get a blank template (Without the Wikimedia Foundation logo) of this slide:http://this%20slide http://this%20slide https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Partnerships_for_Wikimedians_Part_1_--_Identifying_and_negotiating_partnerships.pdf? Thanks -- Remux - Nunca Olvidaré, que me enamoré de la más hermosa flor. Ĉu mi povas helpi vin iel? 00:30, 5 November 2015 (UTC) 23:06, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

You've a New Mail

Hi, You have a new mail on [Wikimediaindia-l] mailing list. Also, sharing the link here.--Abhinav619 (talk) 12:04, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for conversation about Wikimedia India

I appreciate your joining the conversation at Talk:Wikimedia_India#Wikimedia_Foundation_removes_recognition_of_Wikimedia_India_as_a_registered_chapter and look forward to talking with you.

Obviously both of us are there because we care a lot about encouraging the development of the Wikimedia community in India. Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:53, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

Hello, previously at Wikimedia India's talk page I asked

1. Please share the budget and accounting of all the money the Wikimedia Foundation has invested in India in the past few years and has planned for next year
2. In that accounting, please make it clear how much of that investment the Wikimedia community in India directs and manages, such as through grants.

Can you share any accounting of the WMF's total financial investment in Emerging Wikimedia Communities, dividing that investment between what is WMF controlled and what is community controlled? Otherwise, what financial reports do you have about WMF investment in regions with Emerging Wikimedia communties.

I would still like the India report, but I expect everything in the world is public, right? Thanks for whatever you can do. Blue Rasberry (talk) 12:08, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

Hello, Lane.

I'm afraid the data you request is not available to me as a neat single document I can share. I would if it were. The grant amounts are all public, and documented under the various grants in the Grants: namespace on Meta. As Katherine wrote on the talk page where you asked, the specific answers to your questions will be posted by people who do have access to that information. For a tally of those grants, that would be one of the grant administrators at the Community Resources team.

Overall, I would like you to consider the possibility you are pursuing a false narrative of under-investment, nay, of deliberate under-investment in India, when that was never the case. I would suggest to you that the people encouraging you to pursue this narrative are not entirely on the side of truth here, but are pursuing a longstanding narrative of victimhood and alleged "undermining" stemming from WMF's 2011 decision to hire contractors rather than fund a whole team of employees working for the nascent chapter.

You will not do any good for Wikimedia's mission in India through this inquiry, but you are of course free to continue wasting your and WMF's time on it, if you see fit. Asaf (WMF) (talk) 10:24, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

Wikimedia Clinics/009

Just curious. What happened at the #009 meeting? George Ho (talk) 09:58, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Nothing scandalous. :) I've just been down with the flu, so editing the digest is delayed. Asaf (WMF) (talk) 13:00, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

So who else will write the page then? George Ho (talk) 17:57, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Since it is not urgent, no one else will. I will be publishing it very soon. Asaf (WMF) (talk) 18:46, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

The above page has now been posted. Asaf (WMF) (talk) 16:04, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Admin administration

Hi Asaf if you have time kindly advise me on some technicalities. We have agreed on criteria to remove inactive admins and also have voted a number of new admins in. I am bureaucrat and admin at swwiki. When I open the Special:UserRights which is sw:Maalum:HakizaMtumiaji, I can add the new admins but I cannot remove anyone.

According to the explanations at meta:Bureaucrat I should be able to do that. Is that correct? To whom do we talk about such settings? And where would I find the stewards to remove a bureaucrat? Kipala (talk) 09:41, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Hi, Kipala. No, on most projects bureaucrats cannot de-admin admins. You will need the help of a Steward. Asaf (WMF) (talk) 16:00, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Dedicated to you...

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dance&type=revision&diff=763008886&oldid=759182850

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Hall9 69Bergmann69 (talk) 10:24, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

Clinic Follow-up

Hi Asaf,

Thank you for some clarity in today's Clinic - something the process could have used more of from 7 months ago.

Would it be possible to speak to someone from T&S Policy as a matter of urgency? Their only participation on the general UCOC discussion page so far endeavoured to put the discussion off. Previous discussion in the strategic recommendation stage on whether it would be implemented without community agreement was evaded, and I would significantly rather have a confirmed clear-cut set of answers before I dropped statements on the discussion page, as well as reasoning for why it wasn't placed on the original consultation page.

I'm happy to do a video call, but emails are also fine. Nosebagbear (talk) 15:16, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Hi, Nosebagbear. I have no involvement with the UCoC project and do not oversee the T&S team, so I am afraid I cannot take action on your request. Have you directly requested such a call from User:PEarley (WMF)? 16:03, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Wikimedia CEE Online Meeting 2020 submissions

Dear Asaf,

On behalf of the Wikimedia CEE Online Meeting 2020 programme committee, I am pleased to inform you that your submissions "101 Ways to Contribute to Wikimedia – Matching Newbies with Backlogs" and "What can Wikimedians learn from the Feminist movement?" have been accepted as discussions and they were scheduled for 10:00 (UTC) on Saturday, 3 October and 12:15 (UTC) on Sunday, 4 October, respectively (see the draft schedule). If you have not yet registered for the conference, please follow the instructions on this page. In case you have any additional requests or questions, do not hesitate to contact me or any other committee member.

Best regards. --Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 17:32, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Partnership Building course

Asaf, I'm quite interested on this course, but before to apply, or better in order to be able to understand if I can apply, may I ask you to quantify the engagement in term of time, i.e. can you provide an estimate of how many hours per week of live sessions will be required? Thanks in advance, Regards --Bramfab (talk) 13:57, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Hi, Bramfab! The expected total workload is about six hours per week, but the live session would be no longer than 2 to 3 hours. Asaf (WMF) (talk) 16:32, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Thank you.--Bramfab (talk) 17:10, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

תעתיק Lionel Scheepmans

שלום אסף,

ראיתי שתעתקת את השם של המועמד לקרן Scheepmans ל־סחפמאנס. האם אתה מכיר אותו ויודע שזה השם שלו? כי אם לא, נראה לי שיש טעות בתעתיק. הוא צרפתי ולכן שם המשפחה הוא שיפמן. בהצהרה שלו לא שמעתי שהוא אומא את שמו ולכן אני לא יוכל לוודא בעצמי. - yona B. (D) 06:32, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

כן, הוא אכן דובר צרפתית, אבל הוא בלגי, לא צרפתי, ושם המשפחה שלו נשמע פלמי. תיעתקתי על פי הפלמית, אבל בהחלט ייתכן שהוא הוגה את שם משפחתו בצורה "מצורפתת". אינני יודע. Asaf (WMF) (talk) 12:33, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

תודה על התשובה. גם אני לא יודע אז מבחינתי שישאר כך. - yona B. (D) 14:32, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedia CEE Online Meeting 2021 submission

Dear Asaf,

On behalf of the Wikimedia CEE Online Meeting 2021 programme committee, I am pleased to inform you that your submission "Movement strategy and CEE opportunities" has been accepted as a lecture, and it was scheduled for 17:10 (UTC) on Friday, 5 November (see the draft schedule). Considering that the conference will have language interpretation from English into Russian and vice versa, you have the choice between English and Russian as a language that you will use in your session. If you have not yet registered for the conference, please follow the instructions on this page. In case you have any additional requests or questions, do not hesitate to contact me or any other committee member.

Best regards.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 07:53, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

CIS - A2K Newsletter January 2022

Dear Wikimedian,

Hope you are doing well. As the continuation of the CIS-A2K Newsletter, here is the newsletter for the month of January 2022.

This is the first edition of 2022 year. In this edition, you can read about:

• Launching of WikiProject Rivers with Tarun Bharat Sangh
• Launching of WikiProject Sangli Biodiversity with Birdsong
• Progress report

Please find the newsletter here. Thank you MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:13, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

Nitesh Gill (CIS-A2K)

CIS-A2K Newsletter February 2022

Dear Wikimedian,

Hope you are doing well. As you know CIS-A2K updated the communities every month about their previous work through the Newsletter. This message is about February 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned our conducted events, ongoing events and upcoming events.

Conducted events

• Wikimedia session with WikiProject Rivers team
• Indic Wikisource online meetup
• m:International Mother Language Day 2022 edit-a-thon
• Wikimedia Commons workshop for Rotary Water Olympiad team

Ongoing events

• Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon March 2022 - You can still participate in this event which will run till tomorrow.

Upcoming Events

• International Women's Month 2022 edit-a-thon - The event is 19-20 March and you can add your name for the participation.
• Pune Nadi Darshan 2022 - The event is going to start by tomorrow.
• Annual proposal - CIS-A2K is currently working to prepare our next annual plan for the period 1 July 2022 – 30 June 2023

Please find the Newsletter link here. Thank you MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:48, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

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CIS-A2K Newsletter March 2022

Dear Wikimedians,

Hope you are doing well. As you know CIS-A2K updated the communities every month about their previous work through the Newsletter. This message is about March 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned our conducted events and ongoing events.

Conducted events

• Wikimedia session in Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh
• Launching of the GLAM project with RIWATCH, Roing, Arunachal Pradesh
• Wikimedia Commons workshop for Rotary Water Olympiad team
• m:International Women's Month 2022 edit-a-thon
• m:Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon March 2022
• Relicensing & digitisation of books, audios, PPTs and images in March 2022
• Presentation on A2K Research in a session on 'Building Multilingual Internets'

Ongoing events

• Wikimedia Commons workshop for Rotary Water Olympiad team
• Two days of edit-a-thon by local communities [Punjabi & Santali]

Please find the Newsletter link here. Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 09:33, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

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CIS-A2K Newsletter April 2022

Dear Wikimedians,

I hope you are doing well. As you know CIS-A2K updated the communities every month about their previous work through the Newsletter. This message is about April 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned our conducted events, ongoing events and upcoming events.

Conducted events

• Annual Proposal Submission
• Digitisation session with Dakshin Bharat Jain Sabha
• Training sessions of organisations working on river issues
• Two days edit-a-thon by local communities
• Digitisation review and partnerships in Goa
• Let's Connect: Learning Clinic on Qualitative Evaluation Methods

Ongoing events

• Wikimedia Commons workshop for Rotary Water Olympiad team

Upcoming event

• Indic Wikisource Work-plan 2022-2023

Please find the Newsletter link here. Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 15:47, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

CIS-A2K Newsletter May 2022

Dear Wikimedians,

I hope you are doing well. As you know CIS-A2K updated the communities every month about their previous work through the Newsletter. This message is about May 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned our conducted events, and ongoing and upcoming events.

Conducted events

• Punjabi Wikisource Community skill-building workshop
• Wikimedia Commons workshop for Rotary Water Olympiad team

Ongoing events

• Assamese Wikisource Community skill-building workshop

Upcoming event

• June Month Celebration 2022 edit-a-thon

Please find the Newsletter link here.
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CIS-A2K Newsletter June 2022

Dear Wikimedian,

Hope you are doing well. As you know CIS-A2K updated the communities every month about their previous work through the Newsletter. This message is about June 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned A2K's conducted events.

Conducted events

• Assamese Wikisource Community skill-building workshop
• June Month Celebration 2022 edit-a-thon
• Presentation in Marathi Literature conference

Please find the Newsletter link here.
If you want to subscribe/unsubscibe this newsletter, click here.

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Your RFBF

Hello Asaf (WMF). Please note, your RFBF at Meta:Requests for bot status/WikiLearnBot has been closed as not done. This can be presented in the future if needed. The primary reason this was not supported is that the technical goal you had would not have been accomplished with this change. — xaosflux ^Talk 14:43, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

CIS-A2K Newsletter July 2022

Dear Wikimedians,

Hope everything is fine. As CIS-A2K update the communities every month about their previous work via the Newsletter. Through this message, A2K shares its July 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned A2K's conducted events.

Conducted events

• Partnerships with Marathi literary institutions in Hyderabad
• O Bharat Digitisation project in Goa Central Library
• Partnerships with organisations in Meghalaya

Ongoing events

• Partnerships with Goa University, authors and language organisations

Upcoming events

• Gujarati Wikisource Community skill-building workshop

Please find the Newsletter link here.
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Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2022 submission

Dear Asaf,

On behalf of the Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2022 programme committee, I am pleased to inform you that your submissions "Modeling our languages with Lexeme" and "WikiLearn – online learning for the Wikimedia movement" have been accepted as a workshop and a lecture, respectively. Considering that the conference will have language interpretation from English into Russian and vice versa, you have the choice between English and Russian as a language that you will use in your session. If you have not yet registered for the conference, please fill in the registration form. In case you have any additional requests or questions, do not hesitate to contact me or any other committee member.

Best regards.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 10:51, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

CIS-A2K Newsletter August 2022

Really sorry for sending it in English.

Dear Wikimedian,

Hope everything is fine. As CIS-A2K update the communities every month about their previous work via the Newsletter. Through this message, A2K shares its August 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned A2K's conducted events.

Conducted events

• Relicensing of Konkani & Marathi books
• Inauguration of Digitised O Bharat volumes on Wikimedia Commons by CM of Goa state
• Meeting with Rashtrabhasha Prachar Samiti on Hindi Books Digitisation Program

Ongoing events

• Impact report

Upcoming events

• Gujarati Wikisource Community skill-building workshop

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WikiConference India 2016 program

Congratulations again on your proposal being selected!

We hope you have registered for the conference. If not please follow the instructions at: http://wci2016.doattend.com/ If you are a scholarship recipient - use the Wikimedia Registration option. In case you are not attending or unable to attend, please let us know at the earliest so that the schedules can be readjusted accordingly.

The program schedule is available here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Programs

Please make sure you read the presenter guidelines. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Presenter_guidelines

We look forward to seeing you in Chandigarh!

For program committee

Shyamal

en:User:Shyamal

Happy Diwali

		Happy Diwali
		"Hello, In this festive season of lights, rangoli, fireworks and sweets. I like to wish you & your family a very Happy and Prosperous Diwali". Regards,--Rajeeb (talk!)

Merry Christmas & let's see the year out!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! In this toughest of years, thank you for continuing to care about others - both in your editing, your words, and just in your being. Roll on 2021 and I'll see you there! Nosebagbear (talk)

@Asaf(WMF)Hi!I'll reply to the discussion here/Defining_Emerging_Communities

•我很高興能夠在使用非英文討論時得到有同樣觀點的朋友回覆，我在這2個多月的時間一直在為了把中文在國際間書寫的2種字體定義一個統一名稱，也就是(繁體字,簡體字)因為在維基百科出現了8種同樣使用這兩種字體書寫的方言，也申請了新語言的項目(還有語言代碼)這會造成外國朋友的混淆，方言是口語式發言表達，需要紀錄的時候還是要使用官方頒布教育材料的文字，有許多方言的口語表達不止是發音不同，甚至同一個詞惠在不同的方言表達的詞彙也完全不同，這種差異只有接受過完整的中文教育和曾經在另一個地區長期生活的民眾才能分辨(簡體字與繁體字)兩個地區因為分離了50多年，社會文化的差異也同時產生了對事物的命名詞彙不同，我找到了唯一的國際標準組織ISO-639 來作為一個公正客觀的命名含代碼，中國地區方言很多，但是只要觀察在元-維基的頁面翻譯就可以明白這些方言的實際使用人數，英文有很多專業領域的辭彙不適合翻譯需要使用原始單字來傳達，中文都沒辦法使用合適的詞匯代替的譯文，方言更不可能辦到，我對任何文化都保持尊敬的態度，台灣地區也有18個原始族群的文化，但是在社會上爭取工作的時候只會說方言的人是不被考慮的，更何況維基媒體是一種國際間的平台，我使用平台所以採取語言以ISO-639 的代碼命名，不再使用國家或地區做為擴展名，因為我在書寫的時候也時常都會用簡體字做筆記，這是台灣人的習慣，中文字體與英文單字的組合相似，簡體字就像英文單字簡化一樣，(e.g.,Paly=Pa language=lang?)這種簡化文字對於初學者會造成理解的難度增加，學習第二語言需要先對語言的背景文化有基礎的理解才有效率。不小心討論了太多，我正在籌劃一個類似元-維基的新社區發展組，有很多像我一樣不在維基百科的獨立人士都在元-維基，這個新社區可以充當一個不限語言與國藉的避風港，我需要社區章程設立的指導與編輯語法的幫助！！J.Mandy(talk) 06:43,21-07-2022 (UTC+8) The is Google translate •I am very happy to get replies from friends who have the same point of view when using non-English discussions. For more than two months, I have been trying to define a unified name for the two fonts written in Chinese internationally, which is (traditional Chinese characters),Simplified characters) Because there are 8 dialects written in Wikipedia that also use these two fonts, they also applied for new language projects (and language codes), which will cause confusion among foreign friends. Dialects are spoken in spoken language and need to be recorded. It is still necessary to use the text of the official educational materials. There are many dialects whose oral expressions are not only different in pronunciation, but even the same word is expressed in different dialects. The vocabulary is completely different.The difference is only after receiving a complete Chinese education and People who have lived in another region for a long time can distinguish between the two regions (simplified and traditional characters) because they have been separated for more than 50 years, and the social and cultural differences have also produced different naming vocabulary for things. I found the only international standard organization ISO -639 is used as a fair and objective name and code. There are many dialects in China, but as long as you observe the translation of the page on Yuan-Wiki, you can understand the actual number of users of these dialects. There are many vocabulary in English that are not suitable for translation and need to use the original language. It is impossible to use suitable vocabulary to replace the translation in Chinese, let alone dialects. I maintain a respectful attitude towards any culture. There are also 18 primitive cultures in Taiwan, but those who strive for jobs in society People who only speak dialects are not considered, not to mention that Wikimedia is an international platform. I use the platform, so I choose the language to be named after the ISO-639 code, and no longer use the country or region as the extension, because When I write, I often use simplified characters to take notes. This is the habit of Taiwanese. The combination of Chinese fonts and English words is similar.Simplified characters are like simplified English words,(e g., Paly=Pa language=lang?) This simplified text will increase the difficulty of understanding for beginners. Learning a second language requires a basic understanding of the background culture of the language to be effective. Accidentally discussed too much, I am planning a new community development group like meta-wiki, there are many independent people like me who are not on wikipedia are in meta-wiki, this new community can act as a language and nationality Haven, I need help with the guidance and editorial grammar set up by the community charter!！J.Mandy(talk) 02：11,22-07-2022 (UTC+8)

CIS-A2K Newsletter September 2022

Apologies for sending it in English, feel free to translate it into your language.

Dear Wikimedians,

Hope everything is well. Here is the CIS-A2K's for the month of September Newsletter, a few conducted events are updated in it. Through this message, A2K shares its September 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned A2K's conducted events.

Conducted events

• Meeting with Ecological Society & Prof Madhav Gadgil
• Relicensing of 10 books in Marathi
• Impact report 2021-20224
• Gujarati Wikisource Community skill-building workshop

Please find the Newsletter link here.
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CIS-A2K Newsletter October 2022

Dear Wikimedian,

Hope everything is well. CIS-A2K's monthly Newsletter is here which is for the month of October. A few conducted events are updated in the Newsletter. Through this message, A2K wants your attention towards its October 2022 work. In this newsletter, we have mentioned A2K's conducted and upcoming events.

Conducted events

• Meeting with Wikimedia France on Lingua Libre collaboration
• Meeting with Wikimedia Deutschland on Wikibase & Wikidata collaboration
• Filmi datathon workshop
• Wikimedia session on building archive at ACPR, Belagavi

Upcoming event

• Indic Wikisource proofread-a-thon November 2022

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CIS-A2K Newsletter November 2022

Please feel free to translate it into your language.

Dear Wikimedian,

Hope everything is well. CIS-A2K's monthly Newsletter is here which is for the month of November. A few conducted events are updated in the Newsletter. Through this message, A2K wants your attention towards its November 2022 work. In this newsletter, we have mentioned A2K's conducted and upcoming events.

Conducted events

• Digitisation & Wikibase presentation in PNVM
• Indic Wikisource Community/Online meetup 12 November 2022
• Indic Wikisource proofread-a-thon November 2022

Upcoming event

• Indic Wiki Improve-a-thon 2022

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CIS-A2K Newsletter December 2022

Please feel free to translate it into your language.

Dear Wikimedian,

Hope everything is well. CIS-A2K's monthly Newsletter is here which is for the month of December. A few conducted events are updated in the Newsletter. Through this message, A2K wants your attention towards its December 2022 work. In this newsletter, we have mentioned A2K's conducted and upcoming events/activities.

Conducted events

• Launching of GLAM projects in Aurangabad
• Online Meetup 10 Dec 2022 (Indic Wiki Improve-a-thon 2022)
• Indic Wiki Improve-a-thon 2022

Upcoming event

• Mid-term Report 2022-2023

Please find the Newsletter link here.
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CIS-A2K Newsletter January 2023

Please feel free to translate it into your language.

Dear Wikimedians,

Hope everything is well. CIS-A2K's monthly Newsletter is here which is for the month of December. A few conducted events are updated in the Newsletter. Through this message, A2K wants your attention towards its January 2023 tasks. In this newsletter, we have mentioned A2K's conducted and upcoming events/activities.

Conducted events

• Indic Wiki Improve-a-thon 2022
• Project Tiger 2.0 Training
• Mid-term Report 2022-2023

Upcoming event

• International Mother Language Day 2023 Datathon

Please find the Newsletter link here.
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Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 18:03, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

CIS-A2K Newsletter Feburary 2023

Dear Wikimedian,

Hope everything is fine. CIS-A2K's monthly Newsletter is here which is for the month of February. A few conducted events are updated in the Newsletter. Through this message, A2K wants your attention towards its February 2023 tasks and towards upcoming events. In this newsletter, we have mentioned A2K's conducted and upcoming events/activities.

Conducted events

• Digitization & Documentation of Cultural Heritage and Literature in Meghalaya
• International Mother Language Day 2023 Datathon
• Wikidata Online Session

Upcoming event

• March Month Activity on Wikimedia Commons
• Hindi Wikisource Community skill-building workshop

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CIS-A2K Newsletter March 2023

Please feel free to translate it into your language.

Dear Wikimedian,

There is a CIS-A2K monthly Newsletter that is ready to share which is for the month of March. A few conducted events and ongoing activities are updated in the Newsletter. Through this message, A2K wants your attention towards its March 2023 tasks and towards upcoming events. In this newsletter, we have mentioned A2K's conducted and ongoing events/activities.

Conducted events

• Women's Month Datathon on Commons
• Women's Month Datathon on Commons/Online Session
• Hindi Wikisource Community skill-building workshop
• Indic Wikisource Community Online meetup 25 March 2023

Ongoing activity

• Indic Wikisource proofread-a-thon April 2023

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CIS-A2K Newsletter April 2023

Dear Wikimedian,

Greetings! CIS-A2K has done a few activities in the month of April and CIS-A2K's monthly Newsletter is ready to share which is for the last month. A few conducted events and ongoing activities are updated in the Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned A2K's conducted and ongoing events/activities.

Conducted events

• Indic Wikisource proofread-a-thon April 2023
• CIS-A2K/Events/Wikimedia session on building archive at ACPR, Belagavi

Ongoing activity

• Mula Mutha Nadi Darshan 2023

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CIS-A2K Newsletter May 2023

Dear Wikimedian,

Greetings! We are pleased to inform you that CIS-A2K has successfully completed several activities during the month of May. As a result, our monthly newsletter, which covers the highlights of the previous month, is now ready to be shared. The newsletter includes updates on the conducted events and ongoing activities, providing a comprehensive overview of A2K's recent endeavours. We have taken care to mention both the conducted and ongoing events/activities in this newsletter, ensuring that all relevant information is captured.

Conducted events

• Preparatory Call for June Month Activity
• Update on status of A2K's grant proposal

Ongoing activity

• Mula Mutha Nadi Darshan 2023

Upcoming Events

• Support to Punjabi Community Proofread-a-thon

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Thank you MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:48, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

CIS-A2K Newsletter June 2023

Dear Wikimedian,

Greetings! We are pleased to inform you that CIS-A2K has successfully completed several activities during the month of June. As a result, our monthly newsletter, which covers the highlights of the previous month, is now ready to be shared. We have taken care to mention the conducted events/activities in this newsletter, ensuring that all relevant information is captured.

Conducted events

• Community Engagement Calls and Activities
  • India Community Monthly Engagement Calls: 3 June 2023 call
  • Takeaways of Indian Wikimedians from EduWiki Conference & Hackathon
  • Punjabi Wikisource Proofread-a-thon
• Skill Development Programs
  • Wikidata Training Sessions for Santali Community
• Indian Community Need Assessment and Transition Calls
• Partnerships and Trainings
  • Academy of Comparative Philosophy and Religion GLAM Project
  • Wikimedia Commons sessions with river activists
  • Introductory session on Wikibase for Academy of Comparative Philosophy and Religion members

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Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2023 submission

Dear Asaf,

On behalf of the Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2023 programme committee, I am pleased to inform you that your submission titled "Big Funnel: A new approach to outreach" has been accepted as a lecture. If you have not yet registered for the conference, please fill in the registration form. In case you have any additional requests or questions, do not hesitate to contact me or any other committee member.

Best regards.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 08:03, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

CIS-A2K Newsletter July 2023

Dear Wikimedian,

Greetings! We are pleased to inform you that CIS-A2K has successfully completed several activities during the month of July. As a result, our monthly newsletter, which covers the highlights of the previous month, is now ready to be shared. We have taken care to mention the conducted events/activities in this newsletter, ensuring that all relevant information is captured.

Conducted events

• Wikibase session with RIWATCH GLAM
• Wikibase technical session with ACPR GLAM
• Wikidata Training Sessions for Santali Community
• An interactive session with some Wikimedia Foundation staff from India

Announcement

• Train The Trainer 2023 Program

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Thank you MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:24, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

CIS-A2K Newsletter August 2023

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Dear Wikimedian,

CIS-A2K has successfully concluded numerous activities in August. Consequently, our monthly newsletter, summarizing the previous month's highlights, is prepared for distribution. We have diligently included details of the conducted events and activities in this newsletter, ensuring comprehensive coverage of all pertinent information.

Conducted events

• Call with Leadership Development Working Group
• Wikimedia workshop in Goa University
• Wikimedia & digitisation sessions in 150 year old libraries at Kolhapur and Satara
• Review visits to Vigyan Ashram and Pune Nagar Vachan Mandir
• Preliminary meeting on Indic Wikisource Hub

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A2K Monthly Newsletter for September 2023

Dear Wikimedian,

In September, CIS-A2K successfully completed several initiatives. As a result, A2K has compiled a comprehensive monthly newsletter that highlights the events and activities conducted during the previous month. This newsletter provides a detailed overview of the key information related to our endeavors.

Conducted events

• Learning Clinic: Collective learning from grantee reports in South Asia
• Relicensing and Digitisation workshop at Govinda Dasa College, Surathkal
• Relicensing and Digitisation workshop at Sayajirao Gaekwad Research Centre, Aurangabad
• Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 Outreach in Telangana
• Mula Mutha Nadi Darshan Photography contest results and exhibition of images
• Train The Trainer 2023

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A2K Monthly Newsletter for October 2023

Dear Wikimedian,

In the month of October, CIS-A2K achieved significant milestones and successfully concluded various initiatives. As a result, we have compiled a comprehensive monthly newsletter to showcase the events and activities conducted during the preceding month. This newsletter offers a detailed overview of the key information pertaining to our various endeavors.

Conducted events

• Image Description Month in India
• WikiWomen Camp 2023
  • WWC 2023 South Asia Orientation Call
  • South Asia Engagement
• Wikimedia Commons session for Birdsong members
• Image Description Month in India Training Session

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Regards MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:26, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Hardware Donation Program

Hello dear Asaf. I made a request about hardware donation program. But, I can not see my request in the list. Could you solve the problem? Best regards. Kızıltoprak (talk) 20:40, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi, Kızıltoprak. The mechanism used to show the open requests depends on caching, and so it takes a few hours for the list to update. Your request is showing up fine now. However, I must warn you the program is very slow, and the queue is long, so you are unlikely to be able to receive a donated laptop sooner than two years from now. Asaf (WMF) (talk) 09:59, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

A2K Monthly Report for November 2023

Dear Wikimedian,

CIS-A2K wrapped up several initiatives in November, and we've compiled a detailed monthly newsletter highlighting the events and activities from the past month. This newsletter provides a comprehensive overview of key information regarding our diverse endeavors.

Conducted events

• Heritage Walk in 175 year old Pune Nagar Vachan Mandir library
• 2023 A2K Needs Assessment Event
• Train The Trainer Report

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A2K Monthly Report for December 2023

Dear Wikimedian,

In December, CIS-A2K successfully concluded various initiatives, and we have curated an in-depth monthly newsletter summarizing the events and activities of the past month. This newsletter offers a comprehensive overview of key information, showcasing our diverse endeavors.

Conducted events

• Digital Governance Roundtable
• Indic Community Monthly Engagement Calls: Wikimania Scholarship Call
• Indic Wikimedia Hackathon 2023
• A2K Meghalaya Visit Highlights: Digitization and Collaboration
• Building Bridges: New Hiring in CIS-A2K
• Upcoming Events
  • Upcoming Call: Disinformation and Misinformation in Wikimedia projects

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A2K Monthly Report for January 2024

Dear Wikimedian,

In January, CIS-A2K successfully concluded several initiatives, and we are pleased to present a comprehensive monthly newsletter summarizing the events and activities of the past month. This newsletter provides an extensive overview of key information, highlighting our diverse range of endeavors.

Conducted Events

• Roundtable on Digital Cultures
• Discussion on Disinformation and Misinformation in Wikimedia Projects
• Roundtable on Digital Access

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A2K Monthly Report for February 2024

Dear Wikimedian,

In February, CIS-A2K effectively completed numerous initiatives, and we are delighted to share a detailed monthly newsletter encapsulating the events and activities from the previous month. This newsletter offers a thorough glimpse into significant updates, showcasing the breadth of our varied undertakings.

Collaborative Activities and Engagement

• Telugu Community Conference 2024
• International Mother Language Day 2024 Virtual Meet
• Wiki Loves Vizag 2024

Reports

• Using the Wikimedia sphere for the revitalization of small and underrepresented languages in India
• Open Movement in India (2013-23): The Idea and Its Expressions Open Movement in India 2013-2023 by Soni

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A2K Monthly Report for March 2024

Dear Wikimedian,

A2K is pleased to present its monthly newsletter for March, highlighting the impactful initiatives undertaken by CIS-A2K during the month. This newsletter provides a comprehensive overview of the events and activities conducted, giving you insight into our collaborative efforts and engagements.

Collaborative Activities and Engagement

• Wiki Loves Vizag: Fostering Open Knowledge Through Photography

Monthly Recap

• She Leads Program (Support)
• WikiHour: Amplifying Women's Voices (Virtual)
• Wikimedia India Summit 2024
• Department of Language and Culture, Government of Telangana

From the Team- Editorial

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A2K Monthly Report for April 2024

Dear Wikimedian,

We are pleased to present our monthly newsletter for April, highlighting the impactful initiatives undertaken by CIS-A2K during the month. This newsletter provides a comprehensive overview of the events and activities conducted, giving you insight into our collaborative efforts and engagements.

• In the Limelight- Chandan Chiring

Monthly Recap

• Commons:Tribal Culture Photography Competition
• m:CIS-A2K/Events/Indic Community Monthly Engagement Calls/April 12, 2024 Call
• Wikipedia Training to Indian Language educators
• m:Wiki Explores Bhadrachalam
• Wikimedia Summit

From the Team- Editorial

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Regards MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:24, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

A2K Monthly Report for May 2024

Dear Wikimedians,

We are pleased to present our May newsletter, showcasing the impactful initiatives undertaken by CIS-A2K throughout the month. This edition offers a comprehensive overview of our events and activities, providing insights into our collaborative efforts and community engagements.

In the Limelight

Openness for Cultural Heritage

Monthly Recap

• Digitisation Workshop
• Commons:Tribal Culture Photography Competition
• Wiki Technical Training

Dispatches from A2K

Coming Soon

• Future of Commons Convening

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Regards MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:38, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin June Issue 2

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation over the second half of June 2024. Please help translate.

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Upcoming and current events and conversations

Wikimania Katowice

Talking: 2024 continues

• Register now for Wikimania Katowice (7–10 August 2024).
• Editing team community conversation - CopyVio Check and Real-time Checks (03 July 2024, in English)
• Growth team community conversation - New tasks for newcomers and patrollers' burden (16 July 2024, in Spanish)

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org

• Wikimedia Hackathon 2024: Good projects and good people!
• MediaWiki 1.42 general release.
• The Community Configuration extension is released to more Wikipedias.
• The Trust & Safety Product team published the Incident Reporting System MVP User Testing Summary and a project update on temporary accounts.
• Recent changes from the latest Tech News.
• Reference Check to be rolled out on all Wikipedias. Read the initial results from the Edit Check project.
• Concluded voting on Community Wishlist Survey renaming; new name now Community Wishlist.
• “Add an image” suggested edit was released to Wikipedia iOS app & Donation through native GPay is now available on the Wikipedia Android app.
• Talk pages permalinks are now available at all wikis.
• A new task force was formed to replace the disabled Graphs with more secure, easy to use, and extensible Charts.
• Wikimedia Enterprise Quarterly technical update focusing on machine readability, content integrity, and API usability.
• Proposal for a Product & Tech Advisory Council.

Annual Goals Progress on Equity See also a list of all movement events: on Meta

• Highlights and achievements & future plans from Wikisource Loves Manuscripts Project.
• Learn how to edit and upload to Wikimedia Commons with OpenRefine.
• Watch the recording of the 11th edition of Wiki Workshop where research sessions on topics like Disinformation, Reliability, Representation and Gender, Governance and Policy, were held.
• First edition of WikiLearn News released, highlighting opportunities and progress in the area of skills development.
• The WikiData tools everyone is talking about during the 2023 LD4 Conference on Linked Data.
• The Wikimedia Foundation has become a member of the Unicode Consortium.

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Inclusion See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

• Evaluation of the U4C election results (ongoing)
• Building a public policy network from both sides of the Pacific: Lessons from the 1st Global Wiki Advocacy Meet-up.

Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness See also: quarterly Metrics Reports

• Thoughts on the Wikimedia Foundation's annual plan from the Japanese Wikipedia community.
• Where is Wikimedia in the Climate Crisis? – a recap of sustainability work across the movement and at the Foundation for 2023. Foundation Sustainability metrics for 2023 also available on Meta.
• The Wikimedia Foundation's revamped social media strategy is available on Meta.

Board and Board committee updates See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• Wikimedia Foundation Board liaisons published reflections on final Movement Charter draft.
• June 27 Conversation with Trustees Wikimedia Foundation Community Affairs Committee/2024-06-27 Conversation with Trustees: notes & recording including outcomes of the 20 June Board meeting and a discussion of the movement charter.
• Ratification vote on Movement Charter until July 9, 2024 at 23:59 UTC
• 2024 Board Selection: Candidates have answered community questions selected by the Elections Committee.
• Affiliates strategy: Affiliate Health Criteria and changes to the User Group recognition process (feedback page)
• Feedback on Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle finished on June 23. The revised version was published. Updates in July

Foundation statements

• Wikimedia Foundation statement on volunteer processes on reliable sources

Other Movement curated newsletters & news See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Wikimedia World · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · other newsletters:

• Topics: Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library
• Wikimedia Projects: Milestones · Wikidata
• Regions: Central and Eastern Europe

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin July Issue 1

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation over the first half of July 2024. Please help Translate.

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Upcoming and current events and conversations

Wikimania Katowice

Talking: 2024 continues

• Registration for Wikimania Katowice (7–10 August 2024) is still open. Register to attend in-person or virtually until 26 July.
• The call for presentation submissions for the WikiArabia 2024 is open (until July 28).

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org

• The Community Tech team launched a new, continuous Community Wishlist. Wish submission is now open and can be filled at any time.
• Join the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) as technical volunteers. Applications are open until August 10.
• A new task force was formed to replace the disabled Graph with more secure, easy to use, and extendible Chart. You can subscribe to the newsletter to get notified about new project updates and other news about Chart.
• CampaignEvents extension, add an Image feature on iOS Wikipedia app and more recent changes from the Tech News. Read also other news in the previous edition.
• Dark mode - one of the most requested features will transform Wikipedia’s accessibility and is now available on select wikis, on mobile and desktop, in both reading and editing mode!
• MediaWiki insights into work done to improve security, ease of use, maintainability and overall code health. Also, a 25% increase in the number of authors who have committed more than 5 patches!
• Have you ever wished monitoring and fighting vandalism was easier from your mobile device? Edit Patrol is here to help.
• On the value of experimentation – a Future Audiences perspective.

Annual Goals Progress on Equity See also a list of all movement events: on Meta

• Wikicelebrate Ellie from El Salvador, a passionate Wikipedia trainer, event organizer and someone who finds joy in seeing others grow.
• Growing visual knowledge on the Wikimedia projects – the experiences of the Image Description Month.
• Enhancing Learning with Ancient Manuscripts – Wikisource Loves Manuscripts pilot project in Indonesia.

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

• The call for candidates for the special election of the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open now until July 19.
• Protecting the Wikimedia model, its people, and its values – highlights from the Global Advocacy Team.
• Reflections from the Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum 2024 (DRIF24).

Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness See also: quarterly Metrics Reports

• Key Takeaways, Trends, and Lessons from FY23/24 Community Fund Grants

Board and Board committee updates See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees published its decision not to ratify the draft Movement Charter along with proposed next steps (minutes, resolution, appendix).
• Movement Charter voting is closed. At the time of drafting, the scrutineers are working to ensure that all votes on the ballot are valid.

Foundation statements

• Wikimedia Foundation’s Accreditation to the World Intellectual Property Organization was blocked for a fourth time by China.

Other Movement curated newsletters & news See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Wikimedia World · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · other newsletters:

• Topics: Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library
• Wikimedia Projects: Milestones · Wikidata
• Regions: Central and Eastern Europe

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Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2024 submission

Dear Asaf,

On behalf of the Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2024 programme committee, I am pleased to inform you that your submission titled "Defending our wikis against weaponized generative AI" has been accepted as a lecture. In case you have any additional requests or questions, do not hesitate to contact me or any other committee member.

Best regards.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 19:09, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you, @Kiril Simeonovski! Asaf (WMF) (talk) 15:48, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

A2K Monthly Report for June 2024

Dear Wikimedian,

We are excited to share our June newsletter, highlighting the impactful initiatives undertaken by CIS-A2K over the past month. This edition provides a detailed overview of our events and activities, offering insights into our collaborative efforts and community engagements and a brief regarding upcoming initiatives for next month.

In the Limelight- Book Review

Geographies of Digital Exclusion

Monthly Recap

• Wiki Technical Training
• Strategy discussion (Post-Summit Event)

Dispatches from A2K

• Future of Commons

Coming Soon - Upcoming Activities

• Gearing up for Wikimania 2024
• Commons workshop and photo walk in Hyderabad

Comic

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CEE Newsletter - July 2024 Issue Now Available!

Good morning,

We're excited to announce the release of the July 2024 issue of the CEE Newsletter! Once again we have captivating stories, community highlights, and collaborative achievements from across the Central and Eastern Europe region in the Wikimedia movement.

In This Issue:

• International Updates: Stay informed with the "Wikimedia International Update Corner", covering key developments, events and initiatives in the international Wikimedia space for 2024.
• CEE in the News: Discover notable mentions of CEE region activities in "This month in Education" and "This month in GLAM" newsletters.
• Reader's Digest: Catch up on the latest insights and stories from around the globe with the "Reader’s Digest".
• Open calls and consultations: Voice your opinion! These topics are open to discussion. Also, please take a look at the open calls and apply!
• Updates from Communities: Learn about the successful second quarter of Wikimedia MKD and the first half of 2024 of Wikimedia Ukraine, read more about the Third Ionian Wikithon 2024, review activities in the past months of the Wikimedia Serbia, read the report from the event in the Buffer Zone on Cyprus, discover the new area of focus for Wikimedia Poland, and many more community updates.

We hope you enjoy this issue and find inspiration in the diverse stories and impactful work being done by our CEE communities. Thank you for being a part of our journey toward promoting free knowledge and collaboration.

You can read the full newsletter here. We hope you enjoy the inspiring stories and achievements showcased by our vibrant CEE communities.

Happy reading!

Toni Ristovski on behalf of the CEE Newsletter team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:30, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin July Issue 2

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation over the second half of July 2024. Please help translate.

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Upcoming and current events and conversations

Wikimania Katowice

Talking: 2024 continues

• Where to from here? A message from Wikimedia Foundation CEO, Maryana Iskander.
• The program for Wikimania Katowice (7–10 August 2024) is now live! Register now to attend virtually!
• Are you speaking at Wikimania? Here are some resources for speakers.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org

• The Foundation recently opened our first data center in South America. Read about how it is already lowering load times.
• Feature updates from the Tech News: Stewards can now globally block accounts; Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests via GlobalVanishRequest; and interface of FlaggedRevs (also known as “Pending Changes”) is improved.
• Dark mode will transform Wikipedia's accessibility. Interface admins and user script maintainers are encouraged to check gadgets and user scripts in the dark mode, to find any hard-coded colors and fix them.
• Measure the impact of Wikimedia Commons with Commons Impact Metrics analytics dashboard, now available via data dumps and API.
• Key findings from user research about confusion in uploading images to Wikipedia.
• This month’s Wikimedia Research Showcase highlighted the impact machine translation has on both content and readers of Wikipedia and provided interesting insights on how to overcome related challenges. Watch the recording.
• The Charts project officially kicked off. The goal of this new initiative is to restore basic data visualization capabilities to the wikis. Check out the project page and follow our progress on Phabricator.
• The CampaignEvents extension is now available on Meta-wiki, Arabic Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, and Swahili Wikipedia, and can be requested on other wikis. This extension helps manage and make events more visible. Learn about how to request this extension.
• The Campaigns Product & Programs teams have launched a consultation on WikiProjects and other forms of collaboration on the wikis. They want to understand why they work (or don’t work) for some Wikimedia communities, and they want to learn what can be done to improve the experience. Everyone is encouraged to share their feedback.
• Are you a technical contributor? Check out the latest Technical Community Newsletter.

Annual Goals Progress on Equity See also a list of all movement events: on Meta

• The Wikimania Core Organizing Team (COT) for 2025 is delighted to announce that the 20th Wikimania will be hosted in Nairobi, Kenya.
• The Wikipedia Library secured new partnerships with Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Central European University Press, and l’Informé and is adding more content collections in the library.
• Three new A Wiki Minute videos have been released which address reader privacy and content management on Wikipedia, as well as how Wikipedia differs from social media platforms. Learn how A Wiki Minute videos have helped increase awareness about our work.
• The Committee Support Team year-in-review and reflections.
• A new 20-minute audio interview about the WikiLearn platform with Asaf Bartov, in an episode of the WikipediaPodden podcast.
• More of the Wikipedia core policies curriculum developed for the Africa Growth Pilot is available for review. After edits and improvements by the community, recorded videos would become a permanent core policies course on WikiLearn.
• One new wiki has been created: Wikivoyage in Czech.

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

• Voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open now until August 10. Learn more about voting and voter eligibility.
• US Supreme Court ruling on NetChoice cases: What does it mean for Wikipedia?

Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness See also: quarterly Metrics Reports

• Announcing the 2023-2024 Research Fund Grantees and their funded projects.

Board and Board committee updates See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• The outcomes of the June Board meeting are published on Meta. Agenda for the August meeting is here.
• Welcoming new affiliates: Recognition of Wikimedistas Wayuu User Group, Wikimedia Community of Togo User Group, and Wikimedians of Singapore User Group.
• The Board of Trustees selection pre-onboarding and campaign period is open from July 25 to August 26.
• Foundation Trustee Dariusz Jemelniak was appointed to the Governing Board of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, established as part of the EU’s key funding program for research and innovation.
• Movement Charter voter feedback: All comments are now on Meta-wiki (65 comments from the affiliates voters and 447 comments from the individual voters).

Other Movement curated newsletters & news See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Wikimedia World · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · other newsletters:

• Topics: Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library
• Wikimedia Projects: Milestones · Wikidata
• Regions: Central and Eastern Europe

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin August Issue 1

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Special Wikimania issue This is a special Wikimania issue of the Bulletin. We'll be back to our regular format in the next issue

Hannah Clover (User:Clovermoss), Wikimedian of the Year 2024.

• Catch up on missed sessions of Wikimania Katowice or revisit your favourites directly from the program, or review the day-long streams on YouTube: Day 1 streams, Day 2 streams, Day 3 streams, Day 4 streams.
• The Wikimedian of the Year Awards at Wikimania paid tribute to amazing Wikimedians who have made significant contributions to the movement. Learn about all of this year's winners.
• Daily highlights from Wikimania: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4.
• Winners of the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award was announced at Wikimania.
• Highlights of product and tech sessions on Wikimania with links to description and recording.
• The Open Conversation with the Trustees at Wikimania hosted breakout discussions about the Movement Charter, affiliate strategy and hubs, the proposal for a Global Resource Distribution Committee (hybrid table--had streaming and is available to watch back online), the Product/Tech Advisory Council & Product/Tech priorities, building a sustainable revenue strategy for the movement: online fundraising, Wikimedia Enterprise and the Wikimedia Endowment, and responding to emerging threats to free knowledge: litigation, censorship, disinformation, and trust in an election year.
• Catch up on Foundation-led sessions from Wikimania on safety and information integrity: Protecting Children on-Wiki: a Child Rights Solutions Workshop, Information Integrity during Elections: Collective effort to address mis and disinformation, Policy Advocacy Showcase: Stories of policy advocacy work in the movement and future trends.
• Wikimania 2024 in Poland celebrates global volunteers who make Wikipedia and sister projects possible.

Upcoming and current events and conversations Talking: 2024 continues

Wikimania Katowice

• Language Community Meeting: Have topics to share or discuss? Add agenda here. (August 30 at 15:00 UTC.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org

• Two new parser functions and more recent changes on Tech News.
• Help us better understand WikiProjects or similar online collaboration spaces. Fill out a brief survey or share your thoughts on the talkpage.
• Parsoid deployed on first production wikis and more updates on MediaWiki Product Insights.
• Applications to join the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) are extended until September 16.

Annual Goals Progress on Equity See also a list of all movement events: on Meta

• The 4th edition of the Language & Internationalization newsletter (Aug 2024) is available.
• Reviving history and spreading the Spirit of Wikisource Loves Manuscripts (WILMA) in Naga City, the Philippines and Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

• Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum, Global Digital Compact, and Anti-Disinformation Repository: Highlights from the Global Advocacy Team.

Other Movement curated newsletters & news See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Wikimedia World · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · other newsletters:

• Topics: Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library
• Wikimedia Projects: Milestones · Wikidata
• Regions: Central and Eastern Europe

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin August Issue 1

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Special Wikimania issue This is a special Wikimania issue of the Bulletin. We'll be back to our regular format in the next issue

Hannah Clover (User:Clovermoss), Wikimedian of the Year 2024.

• Catch up on missed sessions of Wikimania Katowice or revisit your favourites directly from the program, or review the day-long streams on YouTube: Day 1 streams, Day 2 streams, Day 3 streams, Day 4 streams.
• The Wikimedian of the Year Awards at Wikimania paid tribute to amazing Wikimedians who have made significant contributions to the movement. Learn about all of this year's winners.
• Daily highlights from Wikimania: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4.
• Winners of the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award was announced at Wikimania.
• Highlights of product and tech sessions on Wikimania with links to description and recording.
• The Open Conversation with the Trustees at Wikimania hosted breakout discussions about the Movement Charter, affiliate strategy and hubs, the proposal for a Global Resource Distribution Committee (hybrid table--had streaming and is available to watch back online), the Product/Tech Advisory Council & Product/Tech priorities, building a sustainable revenue strategy for the movement: online fundraising, Wikimedia Enterprise and the Wikimedia Endowment, and responding to emerging threats to free knowledge: litigation, censorship, disinformation, and trust in an election year.
• Catch up on Foundation-led sessions from Wikimania on safety and information integrity: Protecting Children on-Wiki: a Child Rights Solutions Workshop, Information Integrity during Elections: Collective effort to address mis and disinformation, Policy Advocacy Showcase: Stories of policy advocacy work in the movement and future trends.
• Wikimania 2024 in Poland celebrates global volunteers who make Wikipedia and sister projects possible.

Upcoming and current events and conversations Talking: 2024 continues

Wikimania Katowice

• Language Community Meeting: Have topics to share or discuss? Add agenda here. (August 30 at 15:00 UTC.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org

• Two new parser functions and more recent changes on Tech News.
• Help us better understand WikiProjects or similar online collaboration spaces. Fill out a brief survey or share your thoughts on the talkpage.
• Parsoid deployed on first production wikis and more updates on MediaWiki Product Insights.
• Applications to join the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) are extended until September 16.

Annual Goals Progress on Equity See also a list of all movement events: on Meta

• The 4th edition of the Language & Internationalization newsletter (Aug 2024) is available.
• Reviving history and spreading the Spirit of Wikisource Loves Manuscripts (WILMA) in Naga City, the Philippines and Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

• Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum, Global Digital Compact, and Anti-Disinformation Repository: Highlights from the Global Advocacy Team.

Other Movement curated newsletters & news See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Wikimedia World · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · other newsletters:

• Topics: Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library
• Wikimedia Projects: Milestones · Wikidata
• Regions: Central and Eastern Europe

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A2K Monthly Report for July 2024

Dear Wikimedian,

We are excited to share our July newsletter, highlighting the impactful initiatives undertaken by CIS-A2K over the past month. This edition provides a detailed overview of our events and activities, offering insights into our collaborative efforts and community engagements and a brief regarding upcoming initiatives for next month.

In the Limelight- NEP Study Report

Monthly Recap

• Future of Commons
• West Bengal Travel Report

Coming Soon - Upcoming Activities

• Train the Trainer 2024

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin August Issue 2

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation over the second half of August 2024. Please help translate

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Upcoming and current events and conversations Talking: 2024 continues

• Language Community meeting (August 30 at 15:00 UTC).
• Cross-Regional Grantee Partner Learning Conversation Part 1 (August 31 at 07:00 UTC, in English, French, and Chinese Mandarin).
• The Wikimedia+Libraries Convention 2025 will take place in Mexico City from January 15-17, 2025. The scholarship application deadline is August 31.
• ESEAP Community Call (September 8 at 07:00 UTC).

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org

• Highlights of the Product & Technology department's recent work in improving the user experience.
• Editor tools related to references & categories and more tech updates on the latest Tech News.
• Outreachy (a paid, remote three-month internship to support underrepresented groups in tech) is open. Mentors should submit projects before September 11 at 16:00 UTC (more info).
• The Campaign Events extension is now available on Meta-Wiki, Arabic Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, and Swahili Wikipedia, and can be requested in other language wikis.
• The Campaigns teams would like to learn more about how your communities do online collaboration such as WikiProjects, please take this Google Form survey or share examples of successful collaborations on Meta Wiki.
• Editors using the iOS Wikipedia app who have more than 50 edits can now use the Add an Image feature. This feature presents opportunities for small but useful contributions to Wikipedia.
• Applications for the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) are still open until September 16.

Annual Goals Progress on Equity See also a list of all movement events: on Meta

• Central Asian community members share their thoughts on Wikimania 2024.
• Take a look at updates on new feature developments and improvements in various language-related technical projects in the July 2024 edition of the Language and internationalization newsletter.
• The Conference and Events Fund is open for submission until September 2.

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

• Meet the Wikimedia Foundation Global Advocacy Team.

Board and Board committee updates See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• Some next steps on a movement charter: A message from Wikimedia Foundation CEO, Maryana Iskander, Chair of Board of Trustees, Nataliia Tymkiv, and Chair of Governance Committee, Dariusz Jemielniak.
• Elections for four community-and-affiliate elected seats on the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation will be held from September 3 to September 17. To learn more about the candidates, watch this short "Meet the Candidates" presentations.

Other Movement curated newsletters & news See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Wikimedia World · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · other newsletters:

• Topics: Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library
• Wikimedia Projects: Milestones · Wikidata
• Regions: Central and Eastern Europe

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin September Issue 1

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Upcoming and current events and conversations Talking: 2024 continues

• The Voting period for the 2024 Board of Trustees election is open until September 17. Go to the SecurePoll voting page to vote.
• Scholarship application for Wikisource Conference 2025 in Bali, Indonesia is open until September 20.
• WikiConference Nigeria 2024 will be held in Abuja, Nigeria from September 12–14.
• Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2024 will take place in Istanbul, Türkiye on September 20–22.
• Celtic Knot Wikimedia Languages Conference will take place in Waterford City, Ireland on September 25–27.
• Italian WikiConference will be held in Padua, Italy on September 27–29.
• Join Wiki Loves Onam, a photo campaign dedicated to documenting the vibrant and colorful festival of Onam on Wikimedia Commons. The campaign runs until September 30.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org

• Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes.
• The Alternative Text suggested edits feature has now been fully deployed to production on the iOS App for Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and French Wikipedias! This feature, part of WE1.2, is designed to enhance how newcomers add alt text to images, aiming to improve accessibility and engagement. For more details, visit the project page and explore the new feature in the app!
• Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualization can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Wikipedia. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can read more about this project update and help test the charts.
• A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia’s APIs has been published on Meta-Wiki. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on the proposed update’s talk page until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.
• More recent tech updates from Tech News.
• The latest status updates from Wikifunctions.
• Help us find WikiProjects or other online collaboration spaces!

Annual Goals Progress on Equity See also a list of all movement events: on Meta

• Revamping Movement Strategy Grants with Hub Focus.
• Watch the recordings of Let's Connect Grantee Partner Learning Conversation: Conversation #1 with Wiki in Africa, Wiki Advocates Philippines, and Indic MediaWiki Developers UG and Conversation #2 with Wikimedia Community UG Malta, Wikimedia MA UG, and Wikimedia Canada.

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

• Wikimedia Foundation defeats gambling magnate’s lawsuit in Germany.
• Wikimedia Indonesia and UNESCO Jakarta Team Up Against Harmful Content Online.
• Child Rights Impact Assessment at EduWiki Knowledge Showcase and more: Latest updates from the Global Advocacy team.
• Protecting the people: Some recommendations for safety while contributing to Wikimedia projects.

Board and Board committee updates See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• The Movement Charter Drafting Committee published their recommendations and bid farewell.
• Read updates from the July 2024 Wikimedia Endowment Board Meeting.
• Learn more about 12 candidates running for 4 seats on the Board by reading their statements and their answers to community questions.
• See the new members of the U4C following the results of the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) special election, a new decision making group that will enforce the UCoC in specific circumstances.

Other Movement curated newsletters & news See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Wikimedia World · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · other newsletters:

• Topics: Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library
• Wikimedia Projects: Milestones · Wikidata
• Regions: Central and Eastern Europe

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:40, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

A2K Monthly Report for August 2024

Dear Wikimedians,

We are excited to present our August newsletter, showcasing the impactful initiatives led by CIS-A2K throughout the month. In this edition, you'll find a comprehensive overview of our events and activities, highlighting our collaborative efforts, community engagements, and a sneak peek into the exciting initiatives planned for the coming month.

In the Limelight- Doing good as a creative person

Monthly Recap

• Wiki Women Collective - South Asia Call
• Digitizing the Literary Legacy of Sane Guruji
• A2K at Wikimania
• Multilingual Wikisource

Coming Soon - Upcoming Activities

• Tamil Content Enrichment Meet
• Santali Wiki Conference
• TTT 2024

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin September Issue 2

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation over the second half of September 2024. Please help Translate.

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Upcoming and current events and conversations

Wikimedia event at the United Nations

Talking: 2024 continues

• "Wikimania Katowice coverage travels around the world" – a curated list of community and media coverage of Wikimania 2024. Over 100 pieces so far have been published about the event.
• WikiForHumanRights will lead a conversation about the future of the campaign with the Africa region on September 25 at 15:00 UTC.
• Let’s Connect: “Technology for Language Diversity in Wikimedia” will take place on September 26 at 15:00 UTC.
• Wikisource Conference 2025, the deadline for scholarship applications  has been extended to September 29.
• Big Fat Brussels Meeting 9 will be held in Brussels, Belgium from September 29–30.
• WikiConference North America will be held in Indianapolis, USA from October 3–6.
• WikiIndaba Conference 2024 will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa from October 4–6.
• Wikimedia Technology Summit (WTS 2024): will be held in Hyderabad, India from October 4–5.
• ESEAP Community Call will be held on October 6 at 07:00 UTC.
• Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention 2025 is accepting submissions until October 6.
• The Language and Product Localisation team is hosting two office hours to discuss this year's plans and gather feedback from event organizers. The first session is October 5 at 16:00 UTC (Europe-Africa-Americas friendly), and the second is on October 6 at 03:00 UTC (Asia-Pacific friendly).

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org

• MediaWiki Product Insights: The latest edition includes details about: research about hook handlers to help simplify development, research about performance improvements, work to improve the REST API for end-users, and more.
• Tech News: Find out about the new automated Special:NamespaceInfo page, the latest Wishlist focus area, Template recall and discovery, and more recent tech updates.
• Wikidata Query Service: A new change to Wikidata Query Service will impact certain uses. The project will enter a transition period until the end of February 2025. For more details, visit the announcement page.
• Wikimedia Enterprise: Enhanced Free API Accounts: Recurring Credits and More Frequent Updates, early beta release of Structured Contents in Snapshot API, and early beta dataset release to Hugging Face.
• Wikifunctions: Status updates from September 20.
• Wikipedia Mobile Apps: Over 20,000 images have been added via the "Add an Image" feature on both iOS and Android (T372954)!
• Knowledge is Human: Read about ongoing work on the 2024 iteration of the "Knowledge is Human" public awareness campaign
• Server Switch: A server switch was completed successfully on September 25 with a read-only time of only 2 minutes 45 seconds.

Annual Goals Progress on Equity See also a list of all movement events: on Meta

• Wikimedia Research Showcase: Watch the latest showcase with the theme of Curation of Wikimedia AI Datasets.
• Conference and Event Fund: Updates and changes to the Conference and Event Fund program beginning in September 2024.

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

• UN Summit of the Future Action Days: Watch the Wikimedia event titled "The Power of the Commons: Digital Public Goods for a more secure, inclusive, and resilient world" at The Summit of the Future. This is expected to result in a negotiated Global Digital Compact, which represents the final phase of our movement-wide campaign to impact the text of the Global Digital Compact.
• Wikipedia and the Digital Services Act: Lessons on the strength of community and the future of internet regulation.

Foundation statements

• Ahead of UN General Assembly, Wikimedia Foundation calls on governments to ensure the future internet is shaped by communities for the public interest.

Other Movement curated newsletters & news See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Wikimedia World · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · other newsletters:

• Topics: Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library
• Wikimedia Projects: Milestones · Wikidata
• Regions: Central and Eastern Europe

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A2K Monthly Report for September 2024

Dear Wikimedian,

We are thrilled to share our September newsletter, packed with highlights of the key initiatives driven by CIS-A2K over the past month. This edition features a detailed recap of our events, collaborative projects, and community outreach efforts. You'll also get an exclusive look at the exciting plans and initiatives we have in store for the upcoming month. Stay connected with our vibrant community and join us in celebrating the progress we’ve made together!

In the Limelight- Santali Wiki Regional Conference 2024

Dispatches from A2K

Monthly Recap

• Book Lover’s Club in Belagavi
• CIS-A2K’s Multi-Year Grant Proposal
• Supporting the volunteer-led committee on WikiConference India 2025
• Tamil Content Enrichment Meet
• Experience of CIS-A2K's Wikimania Scholarship recipients

Coming Soon - Upcoming Activities

• Train-the-trainer 2024
• Indic Community Engagement Call
• A2K at Wikimedia Technology Summit 2024

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin October Issue 1

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation over the first half of October 2024. Please help Translate.

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Upcoming and current events and conversations

WikiArabia 2024

Talking: 2024 continues

• WikiArabia Conference 2024 will be held in Muscat, Oman, from October 25 to 27.
• WikiConvention francophone 2024 will be held in Québec, Canada, from November 2 to 3.
• AffCom, Case Review Committee (CRC) and the Ombuds commission (OC) are seeking new member applications from October 14.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure

See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org

• Tech News: Updates on Dark Mode, Vector 2022 skin, CampaignEvents extension, and more on tech news.
• Translation suggestion: Sign up to participate in the test project, Translation suggestions: Topic-based & Community-defined lists, which will help organisers identify and add relevant content based on high-impact topics to their Wikipedia.
• Wikifunctions: Status updates from September 26.
• Wikipedia Apps: Check out the latest issue of the Apps Quarterly Newsletter!

Annual Goals Progress on Equity

See also a list of all movement events: on Meta

• WikiWomen Summit: Event summary at Wikimania 2024.
• Let's Connect: Watch recordings of the session Technology for Language Diversity in Wikimedia.
• WikiLearn: The latest online learning opportunities created by Wikimedians for Wikimedians.
• Indonesia: Training for Indonesian Wikipedia Administrators to Safeguard Knowledge Integrity Ahead of the Regional Elections

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity

See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

• Mexico: Wikimedia Foundation files amicus brief in Mexico urging continued use of intermediary liability protections for user-generated content in Richter v. Google.
• Paraguay: Wikimedia Foundation to Paraguayan Supreme Court: Do not allow people to abuse the law to suppress legitimate information
• Global: Celebrating a legal victory in Germany against censorship, reflections on Open Culture strategic workshop, and more global advocacy updates.

Board and Board committee updates

See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• Board Governance: Update from Wikimedia Foundation Board Governance Committee, a proposal to ask for help and co-creation in Movement Charter Mapping Exercise.

Other Movement curated newsletters & news

See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Wikimedia World · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · other newsletters:

• Topics: Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library
• Wikimedia Projects: Milestones · Wikidata
• Regions: Central and Eastern Europe

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin October Issue 2

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation over the second half of October 2024. Please help translate.

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Upcoming and current events and conversations
Talking: 2024 continues

WikiForHumanRights

• How Wikipedia is staying relevant in the AI era: Wikimedia Foundation CEO Maryana Iskander talks about Wikipedia and AI in an interview with the ‘Rapid Response’ podcast.
• Wiki for Human Rights is organizing a call for South Asia, East, Southeast Asia and the Pacific communities to discuss the Future of WikiForHumanRights on October 24 at 10 UTC.
• Campaign Events tool: a call with the Indonesian communities will be hosted on October 25.
• Translation suggestions: Topic-based & Community-defined lists project: an office hour with event/campaign organisers and contributors who use Content Translation tool will be hosted on October 26th. Visit this page for more details.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

• Tech News: In issue 2024/42, read about the removal of the Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow), work on making text searches easier, and more. In issue 2024/43, read about improvements to mobile app navigation, temporary accounts pilot details, the Content Discovery Experiments, and more updates.
• MediaWiki: The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available and include updates on Wikimedia’s authentication system, research to simplify feature development in the MediaWiki platform, and more.
• CampaignEvents extension: The CampaignEvents extension provides tools to create, manage, and promote collaborative activities on the wikis, such as edit-a-thons, meetups, and more. You can visit the Deployment page to learn how to get the extension on your wiki.
• Research: The Research team and collaborators are launching new research on editors with extended rights.
• New Content Translation feature: Translators using Content Translation on wikis with mobile support can now customize their article suggestions with 41 filtering options. This feature helps translators find relevant articles based on their interests for translation.
• Wikifunctions: We are collecting feedback on the "About" widget that shows more info about the functions. Also, status updates from October 11 and October 17.
• Temporary Accounts: Temporary accounts will begin rolling out on October 29 to production wikis with an aim to do a complete deployment by May 2025. You can see the deployment plan and timeline on the project page. As we rollout this change, it is likely that some tools (gadgets, user scripts, templates and bots) will be impacted by it. We have a developer FAQ to help developers with making necessary changes to their maintained tool(s). Please let us know on our talk page if you have any tool in mind that may need updating or if you need help with updating your maintained tools.
• Knowledge is Human campaign: The Communications department has just launched a public awareness campaign (landing page) to showcase how real articles are edited and highlight Wikipedia as a source of information ahead of the 2024 “Big English” fundraising drive.

Annual Goals Progress on Equity
See also a list of all movement events: on Meta-Wiki

• Grants: Announcing the newest round of Knowledge Equity Fund grantees.
• Wikimedia Research Showcase: Watch the latest showcase with the theme of Wikipedia for Political and Election Analysis.

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

• Latest transparency report: The latest Transparency Report, covering the period from January to June 2024, is now live on the Foundation website. View also highlights from the report.

Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• Board Elections: Preliminary results of the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections has been announced.
• Affiliates Strategy: Implementation status of a new affiliate health criteria and changes to User Groups recognition process.

Other Movement curated newsletters & news
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• Topics: Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library
• Wikimedia Projects: Milestones · Wikidata
• Regions: Central and Eastern Europe

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