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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2023 Newsletter

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This is our twentythird newsletter, covering January 2023. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 5, 10, 11, 13, 14 and 16.

Meetings

Activities

News

Resources

Videos

Featured content

New Wikidata properties

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - February 2023 Newsletter

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This is our twentyfourth newsletter, covering February 2023. This issue has news related to SDGs 2, 3, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 16.

Meetings

Activities

News

Resources

Research

New Wikidata properties

Wikidata query examples

Featured articles

  • Featured images
  • Three horses (SDG 15)
    Three horses (SDG 15)
  • Hunter baby chameleon (SDG 15)
    Hunter baby chameleon (SDG 15)
  • Rice paper butterfly (SDG 15)
    Rice paper butterfly (SDG 15)
  • Lasiocampa quercus 4th instar caterpillar Keila (top view) (SDG 15)
    Lasiocampa quercus 4th instar caterpillar Keila (top view) (SDG 15)
  • Lasiocampa quercus 4th instar caterpillar Keila (side view).jpg (SDG 15)
    Lasiocampa quercus 4th instar caterpillar Keila (side view).jpg (SDG 15)
  • Mockingbird on the North Lake Trail (SDG 15)
    Mockingbird on the North Lake Trail (SDG 15)
  • Striated Pardalote (SDG 15)
    Striated Pardalote (SDG 15)
  • Wiesenvögelchen (SDG 15)
    Wiesenvögelchen (SDG 15)
  • Herring gull (SDG 15)
    Herring gull (SDG 15)
  • Northern shoveler (SDG 15)
    Northern shoveler (SDG 15)

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - March 2023 Newsletter

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This is our twentyfifth newsletter, covering March 2023. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 5, 10, 13, 15 and 16.

Meetings

Activities

News

New Wikidata properties

Featured content

  • Featured images
  • Ourapteryx yerburii ssp. specimens and male genitalia (SDG 15)
    Ourapteryx yerburii ssp. specimens and male genitalia (SDG 15)
  • Pterophorus pentadactyla (SDG 15)
    Pterophorus pentadactyla (SDG 15)
  • Wood duck drake (SDG 15)
    Wood duck drake (SDG 15)
  • Cardinal (SDG 15)
    Cardinal (SDG 15)
  • Bunten Kronwicke (Securigera varia) (SDG 15)
    Bunten Kronwicke (Securigera varia) (SDG 15)
  • Sympetrum sanguineum (SDG 15)
    Sympetrum sanguineum (SDG 15)
  • Crocus tommasinianus (SDG 15)
    Crocus tommasinianus (SDG 15)
  • Papaya - longitudinal section close-up view (SDG 15)
    Papaya - longitudinal section close-up view (SDG 15)
  • Aphantopus hyperantus (SDG 15)
    Aphantopus hyperantus (SDG 15)
  • Australian Zebra Finch (SDG 15)
    Australian Zebra Finch (SDG 15)
  • Melospiza melodia (SDG 15)
    Melospiza melodia (SDG 15)
  • Roadside hawk (Rupornis magnirostris griseocauda) eating speckled racer (Drymobius margaritiferus) (SDG 15)
    Roadside hawk (Rupornis magnirostris griseocauda) eating speckled racer (Drymobius margaritiferus) (SDG 15)
  • Black iguana (Ctenosaura similis) (SDG 15)
    Black iguana (Ctenosaura similis) (SDG 15)
  • Cerastis rubricosa caterpillar (side view) (SDG 15)
    Cerastis rubricosa caterpillar (side view) (SDG 15)
  • Cerastis rubricosa caterpillar (dorsal view) (SDG 15)
    Cerastis rubricosa caterpillar (dorsal view) (SDG 15)
  • Frühlings-Knotenblume (Leucojum vernum) (SDG 15)
    Frühlings-Knotenblume (Leucojum vernum) (SDG 15)
  • Ocellated turkey (Meleagris ocellata) male (SDG 15)
    Ocellated turkey (Meleagris ocellata) male (SDG 15)
  • Geoffroy's spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi yucatanensis) (SDG 15)
    Geoffroy's spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi yucatanensis) (SDG 15)
  • Ophiopogon planiscapus (SDG 15)
    Ophiopogon planiscapus (SDG 15)
  • Protaetic cuprea ignicollis (SDG 15)
    Protaetic cuprea ignicollis (SDG 15)
  • Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus plexippus) (SDG 15)
    Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus plexippus) (SDG 15)
  • Cepaea nemoralis (SDG 15)
    Cepaea nemoralis (SDG 15)
  • Crepis biennis (SDG 15)
    Crepis biennis (SDG 15)
  • Keel-billed toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus sulfuratus) on foxtail palm (Wodyetia bifurcata) (SDG 15)
    Keel-billed toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus sulfuratus) on foxtail palm (Wodyetia bifurcata) (SDG 15)
  • Trifolium spadiceum (SDG 15)
    Trifolium spadiceum (SDG 15)

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - April 2023 Newsletter

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This is our twenty-sixth newsletter, covering April 2023. This issue has news related to SDGs 2, 4, 5, 6, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 16.

Meetings

Activities

News

Research

New Wikidata properties

Featured content

  • Featured images
  • Ara macao cyanopterus (SDG 15)
    Ara macao cyanopterus (SDG 15)
  • Leptura quadrifasciata (SDG 15)
    Leptura quadrifasciata (SDG 15)
  • Bursa lamarckii (SDG 15)
    Bursa lamarckii (SDG 15)
  • Ara macao cyanopterus (SDG 15)
    Ara macao cyanopterus (SDG 15)
  • Chlamydera guttata (SDG 15)
    Chlamydera guttata (SDG 15)
  • Sitta carolinensis (SDG 15)
    Sitta carolinensis (SDG 15)
  • Pumpkin field (SDG 2)
    Pumpkin field (SDG 2)
  • Diglossa baritula & Canna indica (SDG 15)
    Diglossa baritula & Canna indica (SDG 15)
  • Acer platanoides (SDG 15)
    Acer platanoides (SDG 15)
  • Amazilia rutila (SDG 15)
    Amazilia rutila (SDG 15)
  • Passiflora edulis (SDG 15)
    Passiflora edulis (SDG 15)
  • Melanerpes aurifrons (SDG 15)
    Melanerpes aurifrons (SDG 15)
  • Argiope versicolor (SDG 15)
    Argiope versicolor (SDG 15)
  • Allium ursinum (SDG 15)
    Allium ursinum (SDG 15)
  • Platanus x hispanica (SDG 15)
    Platanus x hispanica (SDG 15)
  • Thymelicus lineola (SDG 15)
    Thymelicus lineola (SDG 15)
  • Acer palmatum (SDG 15) [38]
    Acer palmatum (SDG 15) [38]
  • Falco tinnunculus (SDG 15) [39]
    Falco tinnunculus (SDG 15) [39]
  • Zalophus californianus (SDG 15) [40]
    Zalophus californianus (SDG 15) [40]
  • Acer pseudoplatanus (SDG 15)
    Acer pseudoplatanus (SDG 15)
  • Tamarindus indica (SDG 15)
    Tamarindus indica (SDG 15)
  • Sciurus carolinensis (SDG 15) [43]
    Sciurus carolinensis (SDG 15) [43]
  • Tyrannus savana monachus (SDG 15)
    Tyrannus savana monachus (SDG 15)
  • Rapa incurva (SDG 15)
    Rapa incurva (SDG 15)
  • Trigona sp. (SDG 15)
    Trigona sp. (SDG 15)

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Queering Wikipedia 2023 conference

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Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group and the organizing team of Queering Wikipedia is delivering the Queering Wikipedia 2023 Conference for LGBT+ Wikimedians and allies, as a hybrid, bilingual and trans-local event. It is online on 12, 14 and 17 May, the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia #IDAHOBIT, with offline events at around 10 locations on 5 continents in the 5-day span as QW2023 Nodes.

The online program is delivered as a series of keynotes, panels, presentations, workshops, lightning talks and creative interventions, starting on Friday noon (UTC) with the first keynote of Dr Nishant Shah entitled: I spy, with my little AI — Wikiway as a means to disrupt the ‘dirty queer’ impulses of emergent AI platforms. Second keynote is at Sunday’s closure by Esra’a Al Shafei, Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees vice chair, entitled: Digital Public Spaces for Queer Communities.

If you have been an active Wikimedian or enthusiast, supporting LGBT+ activities or if you identify as part of the larger LGBT+ community and allies in Wikimedia, please join us in advancing this thematic work. We encourage you to join online or in person with fellow Wikimedians if it is easy and safe to do so. Our working languages are English and Spanish, with possible local language support at sites of Nodes.

Registration for the online event is free and is open until Wednesday May 10th at 18:00 UTC, for safety protocol. Late event registration approval and event access denial is at the discretion of organizers.

More information, and registration details, may be found on Meta at QW2023

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WHO on the fediverse

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Hello! I forgot, are you on Mastodon or elsewhere in the fediverse? I can't find you on Wikis World or my follows. I wanted to share that James Love of KEI has «Asked the WHO to create an instance and use it to engage the public on its pandemic treaty negotiations today, speaking in Committee B of the World Health Assembly». I suspect you know how to pass the message to some well-meaning persons inside WHO. Cheers, Nemo 07:14, 27 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

What do you want us to do then?🤨 Leosshwbsjshybddbdbd (talk) 16:17, 12 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

Sunday July 16 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting (Global Council focus, now available in ar, es, fr!)

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SWAN: The Next Generation

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

We'll focus on strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Wikimania Singapore, Future of SWAN, Movement Charter/Content new sections (particularly Movement Charter/Content/Global Council), other activities you submit, and we will top it all off with a grand finale AI Happy Hour / Doom Hour!

This month we are meeting on Sunday July 16, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

UTC meeting times are and
Note that we are now meeting on Zoom, with interpretation in the 2nd session in (Arabic) (Spanish) (French)--Pharos (talk) 02:44, 12 July 2023 (UTC)Reply

Student seeking advice and feedback on editing an article

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Hi Lane! I'm a student working on revising the "Food Deserts" parent article and creating a new article on food deserts in the US, and I'd greatly appreciate any input and feedback from you as I work on revising and creating content.

I drafted a section titled "Causes" to add to this parent article because I recognized a lack of information about the proposed causes of food deserts in the current version of the article. However, in my research, I discovered that most of the proposed causes behind the formation of food deserts are in the context of the US because food deserts is a primarily Western concept that is most relevant for the U.S and the U.K. Because I'm also planning on creating a new child article focused on food deserts in the US, I'm thinking of adding my newly-drafted causes section to the new article and focusing more on the idea behind not being able to apply the same food desert framework to other countries in this article. What are your thoughts on this? My draft of the "Causes" section is available for viewing in my sandbox (User:Cd631874/Food desert#References).

I also finished my draft of the new sub-section titled "Alternative Frameworks to Food Deserts" in my sandbox that I intend to add to either the existing parent article or the new child article. I'm conflicted as to whether to include both the global and US perspectives on the shortcomings of the FD concept in this article as they both provide unique perspectives into FD's potential limitations, or whether I should put the US-specific proposed limitations of food deserts just in the new child article focused on the US. Please let me know if you have any thoughts on this matter.

Thank you so much! Cd631874 (talk) 05:35, 13 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

I replied at en:Talk:Food_desert#Causes_of_Food_Deserts_Section. Bluerasberry (talk) 19:01, 17 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

General Assembly LSP 2024

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Dear All, We will be holding our general assembly for 2022 in February 2024 online. If you wish to participate as a member of our user group, you need to be formally a member of our association. There will be another general assembly online for 2023 in June 2024, and we will then have been able to bridge the gap of our late general assemblies.

Please fill out our membership formular here.

We are looking for members on our board who have specific competences in budget planning and finances as well as fundraising, as well as strategic planning. If you have these competences please feel free to send us your appplication and motivation letter by mail at info@sans-pages.org.

Warm regards, Natacha LSP (talk) 16:27, 18 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

PS : if you do not wish to be contacted again please delete your name from this list : Les sans pagEs#Membership

Invitation to have a conversation as West Bengal Wikimedians User Group General Member

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Hello Bluerasberry/Archive 9!

We are sending you this message as you have signed up as a general member of the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group. As we are nearing our next annual general meeting in a few days, we wanted to have a conversation with the general members of the group regarding our past projects and events and future initiatives, ways of engagement with the group and our bylaws, so that we can take your valuable feedback and plan for next year.

We will arrange for the online meeting on 23rd December, 2023 Saturday at 7 pm Indian Standard Time. You can join the meeting from this link. The conversation will happen mostly in Bangla language and notes will be taken on Etherpad. You can also spend some of your time to fill up this this short survey available in both Bangla and English texts and share your feedback there.

Looking forward to see you soon and have a great conversation!

Regards,
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:57, 20 December 2023 (UTC)Reply
(on behalf of the Representative Members of the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - December 2023 Newsletter

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This is our twenty-seventh newsletter, a sort of year-in-review for 2023.

Dear Wikimedians for Sustainable Development,

As we bid farewell to 2023, we reflect on a year that has been an uneven year for our user group. While the journey has been marked by some truly inspiring events, most of our efforts have been largely uncoordinated and the user group hasn't been the support it could have been. Yet, there's a glimmer of hope and a world of potential for 2024.

Highlights of 2023:

Newsletters Galore
We kicked off the year with zeal, sharing updates and inspiration through four newsletters. The number of things happening in the movement is astounding, but we need to rethink the format of the newsletter going into the next year.
Growing Strong
The Wikimedians for Sustainable Development family welcomed 33 new members in 2023. Your passion and dedication continue to inspire us, and we look forward to nurturing this community spirit in the year ahead.
Wikimania Talks
Our voices echoed far and wide at Wikimania, where several members of our community took the virtual stage to share insights and ideas about everything from Wikipedians-in-Residence's to open data. Your contributions showcased our commitment to sustainable development on a global scale.
Content Creation Magic
Throughout the year, our extended community demonstrated incredible dedication to expanding the knowledge base on Wikipedia. Countless hours were spent creating and curating content that aligns with our mission, contributing to a more sustainable digital ecosystem.
Campaigning hard
We saw a large variety of campaigns, from writing challenges to editathons. The willingness to experiment with new formats and partners, as well as learning from past efforts, shows great promise for the future.

Acknowledging Challenges:

While we celebrate these achievements, we acknowledge that 2023 presented its fair share of challenges. A lack of global coordination reminded us that the road to sustainable development is not always linear. However, it is precisely these challenges that fuel our determination to work together more cohesively in the coming year and proof that the user group is needed.

Hopeful Anticipation for 2024:

As we turn the page to 2024, let's carry forward the lessons learned and the successes celebrated. We are optimistic that, with renewed energy and a collective commitment, we will overcome obstacles and create an even more impactful and connected Wikimedians for Sustainable Development community.

Here's to a year of collaboration, growth, and making a lasting impact on the world through our shared passion for sustainability. Together, we can turn challenges into opportunities and pave the way for a brighter future.

Wishing you all a joyous holiday season and a Happy New Year!

Warm regards, User:Ainali, User:Daniel Mietchen

PS. We have started writing our yearly report, please add your activities to it.

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Wikimedia Medicine membership renewal 2024

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Membership renewal

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Dear Wiki Project Med Supporter, you are receiving this message as you were a member in 2023. As 2024 approaches it is time to renew. There are no associated costs for active participants. We are close to elections and only members can nominate themselves for the board and vote!

ReJoin Wiki Project Med Foundation

Thanks again :-) Avicenno and the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 19:51, 1 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

West Bengal Wikimedians User Group held its 2024 Annual General Meeting yesterday

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Hello Bluerasberry/Archive 9!

We are sending you this message as you have signed up as a general member of the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group. We would like to inform you that the user group has organized its 2024 Annual General Meeting of Representative Members yesterday at the Birla Industrial & Technological Museum, Kolkata. In this meeting, we have adopted revised bylaws based on the feedback and suggestions coming from our members (see changes) and selected 10 new Representative Members based on the objective criteria set in the bylaws with regards to their recent or overall online and offline contributions. A new Representative Committee has also been formed while replacing 3 out of 5 members, who have completed their full term tenure for this responsibility. The participants have also shared learning from the projects taken from previous year and shared plans about new projects which they are willing to take during this year on behalf of the user group. We are also introducing a mentorship program from this year, where willing general members can work together with our program leads in user group programs and learn from each other. So, stay tuned for more excitements!

Regards,
Bodhisattwa
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Difficulty in request to join Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group

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Hi @Bluerasberry: I would like to join this mission to increase representation of LGBTQ+ people globally regardless of place of origin, across Wikimedia. I saw the initiative recently, but unfortunately the membership form at Google Forms https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScN7CBFOxzarJ4jseQuMeYRm0NnMZCiHYwDpoL8TnXYs4EuQw/viewform seems to be no longer accepting responses.

Is there any way for interested individuals to join the initiative right now?

Can I register via email even though the 31 October, 2023 deadline for membership registration to be eligible for 2023 Elections voting has passed? —CrafterNova [ TALK ]  [ CONT ] 11:49, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thanks, I replied at Talk:Wikimedia_LGBT+#Joining_Wikimedia_LGBT+_-_state_of_membership. Bluerasberry (talk) 16:05, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Reply


2023-24 Annual Activity Report of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group

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Hello Bluerasberry/Archive 9!

We are sending you this message as you have signed up as a general member of the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group. We are pleased to inform you that the user group has submitted its annual activity report for 2023-24. We will be very happy to receive your feedback about our activities from the last year on the talk page of the report.

Thanks and regards,
Bodhisattwa
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Word limit on Wikimedia Foundation elections/2024/Candidates/Lane Rasberry

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Please be aware that there is a word limit of 1000 words for all your answers in total. You used so far 1003 words according to my counting tool in Libre Office Writer. For only 3 words I wouldn't be that picky, but other candidates are more clearly above that limit. Please find a way to make your candidacy 3 Words shorter.

The word limit exists to limit the effort for our translators who will translate your text into several languages so that people who do not understand English can vote for you. Der-Wir-Ing ("DWI") talk 10:02, 29 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Der-Wir-Ing: Thanks for checking. I used Google Docs and it reported 998 words.
In any case, I cut text, and now it is at 988.
Thanks for coordinating the election and best wishes for managing translation. Bluerasberry (talk) 12:30, 29 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Optional question for Board Election candidacy

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A mistake in the candidate application was brought to the attention of the Election Committee, accidentally duplicating an optional question and omitting an additional optional question. The Election Committee decided that candidates may still answer the additional question, and will waive the word count limit in the case of answering this additional question. You may fill out your answer on your candidacy page. The deadline to answer the optional question is 23:59 UTC on 2 June. Please let me know if you have any questions. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 15:36, 30 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Discussion on the Charter on ptwiki

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Hello! There is ongoing discussion on the charter on ptwiki. Not too active though. I am sending this information per your request, as I understand you are looking for discussions on this topic. Best! Joalpe (talk) 14:29, 15 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Joalpe: Thanks I can feature this in the article. Bluerasberry (talk) 10:49, 15 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

What the hell...

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Please, edits like this are highly disruptive and create a lot of work for affiliates and hubs that you might not be aware of. I can understand the frustration, but creating work for other volunteers and staff members is not going to help fix this system... Braveheart (talk) 12:35, 17 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Braveheart: I am really sorry. I read the page and interpreted it in a way that seemed correct, and I was confident enough that I did not think twice about it. It was not my intent to disrupt anything. I apologize for my error.
No worries from me, but sincerely and openly, if people are expressing frustration, consider what needs to happen to provide more clear language. I was trying to help. Knowing the open/closed status of applications is useful information. Bluerasberry (talk) 15:12, 17 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for the clarification, sorry for being angry. It meant that people at the CEE Hub were seriously considering messaging every affiliate to notify them of this, and considering there should be a round 1 in autumn it would've required some serious shift in planning from quite a few affiliates :-/ But it's good to know that we're not the only ones looking at that page ;-) Best, Braveheart (talk) 16:46, 17 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Braveheart: Your urgency is fine because it led to you contacting me. I posted on the talk page about how I came to misunderstand, see Grants_talk:Start#Sorry_for_marking_grant_as_closed. From one perspective it is a wiki page like any other so I thought to edit it, but from another perspective there is a lot of money on the line here and I was much too casual. Bluerasberry (talk) 17:18, 17 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Sunday June 23 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting (WMF BoT statement on Movement Charter ratification)

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A group of SWANs heading to the meeting

Hello everyone!

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas about current developments in the Wikimedia Movement. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for further Wikimedia 2030 strategy process work.

At this meeting we will focus on the recent statement by the WMF Board of Trustees liaisons statement on the Movement Charter in which the liaisons stated that they will be recommending the Board of Trustees not to ratify the final draft of the Movement Charter. The community and affiliate votes on the ratification are supposed to start on Tuesday, 25 June. This meeting offers a venue to discuss the situation and formulate the "next steps".

This month, we are meeting on Sunday, June 23, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

UTC meeting times are and

Nadzik (talk) 16:35, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply


Reminder to vote now to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter

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You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. Please help translate to your language

Dear Wikimedian,

You are receiving this message because you previously voted in the 2021 Movement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC) election.

This is a reminder that if you have not voted yet on the ratification of the final Wikimedia Movement Charter draft, please do so by July 9, 2024 at 23:59 UTC.

You can read the final text of the Wikimedia Movement Charter in your language. Following that, check on whether you are eligible to vote. If you are eligible, cast your vote on SecurePoll.

On behalf of the Charter Electoral Commission,

RamzyM (WMF) 15:24, 5 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Sunday July 28 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting (Results of Movement Charter ratification)

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SWANs gathering for a conversation

Hello everyone!

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas about current developments in the Wikimedia Movement. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for further Wikimedia 2030 strategy process work.

At this meeting we will focus on the results of the Movement Charter ratification. We will also discuss the aftermath of the Board of Trustees' decision to veto the Movement Charter, including their recent proposals. We will also cover updates about upcoming Wikimania 2024.

This month, we are meeting on Sunday, July 28, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

UTC meeting times are and

Nadzik (talk) 19:55, 18 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

l'élection du conseil d'administration de la Wikimedia Foundation 2024.

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"Bonjour,

Vous êtes candidat pour le conseil d'administration de la Wikimedia Foundation. Pouvez-vous nous expliquer quelle est votre vision pour le mouvement, ainsi que votre contribution à la stratégie de son avancement, en particulier concernant les groupes d'utilisateurs qui promeuvent les langues minoritaires ?" Shayi ngolu (talk) 08:30, 7 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Shayi ngolu:
Your question is the second one I answered in this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKfpT5Tg8Kg
Here is a different version of the answer in text:
You want my position about support for minority languages. The role of the trustee is to do strategic planning. Because the Wikimedia Foundation oversees spending of about US$200 million a year, then a trustee will rarely address an issue of less than US$1 million. Minority language groups typically need resource support of $2,000-$50,000 per year, per community, so a trustees will be considering them as a group who collectively need support.
There are a few challenges to address. One is that the Wikimedia community is not organized to practice democratic or community governance, and is unprepared to make a resource request on the order of $1 million for this demographic. Another issue is that the Wikimedia Foundation is spending money on minority language groups, but it does not have accounting records to be aware of where the money is going, or how what effect it has on this demographic generally over the years.
There are two things I want as a trustee, and which I think I can encourage. One is I want better financial records made public and easy to understand, so that anyone in the world can see how money is spent, especially for minority interest groups. The other is that I think the Wikimedia Foundation should sponsor the Wikimedia community to have enough governance to be able to speak for itself, and make decisions on how to spend limited resources. Without financial transparency, and without basic user governance, I think the challenges which have persisted for minority languages over the last 10 years will continue into the future. Bluerasberry (talk) 13:44, 10 September 2024 (UTC)Reply
Merci Shayi ngolu (talk) 08:53, 11 September 2024 (UTC)Reply
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