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Affiliations Committee News (October-December 2024)
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Quarterly newsletter sharing news and events about the work of Wikimedia's Affiliations Committee.
Affiliate Recognition and Derecognition: User group application pause lifted
Affiliate Activities and Compliance Report: Activities reports around the world
AffCom Conflict Intervention: Updates on conflict intervention cases
AffCom Movement Contribution: AffCom engagement at WikiIndaba
AffCom Administration: Mari Avetisyan appointed new AffCom secretaryMediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:03, 5 February 2025 (UTC)
Current status of WMLGBT+
[edit]@Freddy eduardo, @Fulbert, @Kaizenify, @Paper2040, @OwenBlacker,@Fæ, where can we read about what’s going on with WMLGBT+, the board, the recruitment of staff, and the next board member election?
I asked about this back in December, and OwenBlacker responded “there will be a more formal annual report available within the next few weeks.”
More than two months have now passed with no further updates - and I note that the funding of staff is only secured until the end of May, so I am wondering if any potential staff could/would take on a position with such a limited future. Peltarion (talk) 01:59, 12 March 2025 (UTC)
- @Peltarion: Hello, I am not on the board, but I am active as an advisor, and do secretarial support for the organization.
- The Wikimedia Foundation approved a no-cost extension to the term of the grant at Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/General_Support_Fund/Sustaining_Wikimedia_LGBT+. Wikimedia LGBT+ has more time to manage the staff.
- The page for hiring at Wikimedia_LGBT+/Hiring notes an October - November 2024 application process. Wikimedia LGBT+ coordinated multiple human reviewers to read and rate every complete submitted CV and cover letter, and that was ongoing December - January. Some applicant contact and some interviews happened starting February. The first updates have to go to the applicants for the positions, then there will be public updates on the hiring page.
- As always, I am seeking opportunities to talk with anyone who wants to document administrative processes of Wikimedia LGBT+, because so many of these processes could be reusable and because Wikimedia LGBT+ develops them without much precedent due to being first and global among Wikimedia community organizations. If you have questions, then ask now or prepare them. There will be more to say soon after some upcoming scheduled decisions, and I recommend waiting another two weeks for those updates. Bluerasberry (talk) 21:31, 23 March 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you for the response regarding recruitment and the good news that the funding has been extended.
- I look forward an update on the other matters I raised - the annual report and the board member election - from the board(@Freddy eduardo:, @FULBERT:, @Kaizenify:, @Paper2040:, @OwenBlacker:,@Fæ:). Peltarion (talk) 01:39, 27 March 2025 (UTC)
- @Peltarion: The staff update is below. The annual report which you requested will eventually be at Wikimedia LGBT+/2024. There are no current plans for the next board member election. Bluerasberry (talk) 16:46, 9 April 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you! It is great news that staff have been appointed. Thank you (and the board) for your hard work in bringing this to fruition. Peltarion (talk) 03:31, 11 April 2025 (UTC)
- @Peltarion: The staff update is below. The annual report which you requested will eventually be at Wikimedia LGBT+/2024. There are no current plans for the next board member election. Bluerasberry (talk) 16:46, 9 April 2025 (UTC)
Wikimedia LGBT+ welcomes its first staff members
[edit]Welcome to User:Bisi Alimi (WMLGBT) as Wikimedia LGBT+'s executive director, and to user:Vic Sfriso (WMAR) as Director of programmes and community engagement.
- "Wikimedia LGBT+ welcomes its first staff members". meta.wikimedia.org. Wikimedia LGBT+. 7 April 2025.
Everyone who applied for these open positions has already been sent notice of the appointments. Thanks to those who contributed to the organizational development process which led to the creation of these staff positions. Bluerasberry (talk) 16:44, 9 April 2025 (UTC)
Affiliations Committee News (January-March 2025)
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You can find this newsletter translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. Please help translate to your language
Quarterly newsletter sharing news and events about the work of Wikimedia's Affiliations Committee.
Affiliate Recognition and Derecognition: Recognition of Wikimedia Brasil and four user groups
Affiliate Activities and Compliance Report: Activities reports around the world
AffCom Conflict Intervention: Updates on conflict intervention cases
AffCom Movement Contribution: AffCom engagement at Wikimedia+Libraries and Wikisource conferences
AffCom Administration: Welcoming new AffCom voting and advisory members
Upcoming AffCom Events: AffCom at ESEAP Strategy SummitMediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:28, 26 April 2025 (UTC)
Join the 6th Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign – 2025 Edition
[edit]Dear Wikimedia affiliate,
We invite your community to participate in the 6th edition of the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign, a global campaign taking place from July 1 to August 31, 2025.
Participants will choose among Wikipedia pages without photos, then add a suitable photo from among the many thousands of photos in the Wikimedia Commons, especially those uploaded from thematic contests (Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, Wiki Loves Monuments, etc.) over the years.
More than 60 Wikimedia affiliates have participated since the campaign was launched in 2020 and have added images to more than 400,000 Wikipedia articles in over 245 Wikipedia languages. Thanks to the volunteer contributors!
We now invite your affiliate to organize and lead the campaign within your community. As a local organizer, you may:
- Encourage individual members to take part by adding images to Wikipedia articles.
- Host edit-a-thons focused on improving visual content.
- Organize training workshops to teach contributors how to correctly integrate images into Wikipedia.
These activities will help build local capacity and increase visual content across Wikipedia.
Please note that for participants to be eligible to participate in the campaign, they need to have registered an account for at least a year before the official start date of the contest. That is, for the 2025 edition, they must have registered an account on or before July 1, 2025. The account can be from any Wikimedia project wikis.
The organizing team is looking for a contact person to coordinate WPWP participation at the Wikimedia user group or chapter level (geographically or thematically) or for a language Wikipedia.
We would be glad for you to sign up directly at WPWP Participating Communities.
With kind regards,
User:Reading Beans On behalf of the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos campaign 2025. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:03, 15 May 2025 (UTC)