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CEE Catch Up July 2023

Third Catch Up was held on 31st of July 2023, 18:00-19:00 CEST.

Agenda

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Agenda
18:00 - 18:02 - Welcome by the organisers
18:02 - 18:10 - Introduction
18:10 - 18:50 - Main session "Supporting community health", where sharers will present their work
18:50 - 19:00 - Updates
Participants
  1. TRistovski-CEEhub (talk) 10:59, 17 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Vyolltsa (talk) 12:16, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Pinky sl (talk) 13:21, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  4. NikosLikomitros (talk) 23:17, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Zblace (talk) 06:08, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Mndetatsin (talk) 11:09, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Umar-askira(talk)
  8. Lebron jay (talk) 14:31, 19 July 2023 (UTC)Lebron jay[reply]
  9. Onwuka Glory (talk) 05:09, 20 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  10. 102.88.36.192 19:56, 19 July 2023 (UTC)Dchanzstar[reply]
  11. Irdiism (talk) 10:46, 21 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Leeturtle (talk) 10:59, 23 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Paulina Studniczka (WMPL) (talk) 23:52, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  14. – Mehman (WMGE) 11:40, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Strainu (talk) 17:43, 28 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  16. TohaomgTohaomg (talk) 15:13, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Report

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The meeting started on time (18:00 CEST) with over 20 participants from the whole CEE Region.

You can find a recording of this meeting below.

Welcome and introduction

At the beginning of the meeting, organisers of this initiative CEE Hub staff (Barbara Klen and Toni Ristovski) and Wikimedia Foundation’s Movement Communications regional specialist (Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska) shortly introduced themselves. Additionally, Natalia shared the safe space policy with all of the participants. As we wait for all registered participants, we talk about longest editing streak on Wikipedia and recent blog post about editor with the longest streak ever.

Afterwards, we explained our theme for the meeting which was "Community health" and our sharers from three different organisations.

Main session

Our sharers for this meeting were following:

  1. Nicky Deluggi from Human Rights Team
  2. Natalia Ćwik and Paulina Studniczka from Wikimedia Poland
  3. Anton Protsiuk from Wikimedia Ukraine

Nicky shared about plan of the Human Rights Team to set up a separate Meta page which will be Resource Center dedicated to "Mental Health", which often is neglected as a topic in our movement. This page should be published during the August, on which ordinary users can find out advices and information about mental health. As everyone knows, it is not just to create a Meta page, and everyone then to forgot about that page, Human Rights Team will try to promote and to communicate well with all of the users from the movement, this page to be visible, easily findable and to be used whole the time. During the presentation, Nicky shared link where participants from the session can ask questions about this project.

Natalia and Paulina from Wikimedia Poland talk about their new internal policy to develop and implement an anti-mobbing, anti-discrimination and anti-harassment policy and procedure. They went into complete process to organise this, which includes training for the employees. During the creation of the policy they talk with other organisations from the movement as well. Additionally, Wikimedia Poland works a lot to have safer meetings and conferences and they introduce implementation of the Universal code of conduct during their online meetings, as well to in-person activities. They adapt this policy from Wikimedia Germany, as they have proper documentation about this in their own organisation.

Anton from Wikimedia Ukraine talk about impact of the employees and contractors of the Wikimedia Ukraine after Russian invasion of Ukraine. He explains what the war has not changed and what the war has changed of their work and how people feel about Wikipedia even in wartime. He talks a lot about that now it is very hard and unpredictable to organise events and in-person activities, although they are still organising these events, taking a preparations for every possible scenario. He shared also some learnt lessons from dealing such unprecedented event.

Updates

At the end, it was scheduled to have an update for Wikimania 2024 from organisers team (Maciej Nadzikiewicz ), but as we did not have a time, this update will be published on social media channels.

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