Kominikasyon/Wikicelebrate
Mouvman Wikimedia egziste gras ak kontribisyon anpil volontè ak lòt Wikimedyen atravè mond lan, moun ki soti nan divès orijin ak eksperyans lavi ki kontribye nan sòm tout konesans moun yo. Gwo enpòtans kolaborasyon mondyal sa a deranje pifò deyò mouvman nou an. Anpil editè gen lontan y ap kontribye pou kont yo san gwo rekonesans, epi renmen li konsa. Pou lòt moun, lanmou ak rekonesans nan men kanmarad yo ka ankouraje yo anpil ak leve yo anlè. Nou la pou selebre moun san parèy nan Wikimedya yo, poto mitan mouvman nou yo, moso nan linivè konesans nou an ki toujou elaji.
Selebre Wikimedyen yo
Barnstars yo se yon fason ki apresye anpil pou eksprime rekonesans youn pou lòt nan mouvman an, men souvan san twò atansyon piblik la. Nou pa manke kontribitè etonan pou selebre epi n ap dedye espas sa a ba yo. WikiCelebrate se yon fason fasil, kolaborasyon pou mete aksan sou Wikimedyen yo ak travay etonan yo pandan tout ane a. Chak mwa nou pral selebre yon Wikimedyen diferan epi nou envite w ede nou nan selebre yo plis! Si w konnen yo, pataje yon gwo istwa sou travay ou avèk yo. Si gen lòt nou ta dwe selebre, tanpri nonmen yo. Anplis lanmou w ak rekonesans ou, sètènman, Wikimedyen ki selebre yo pral resevwa yon barnstar edisyon limite, yon ti kado, ak piblikasyon sou Diff ak rezo sosyal yo.
Nou planifye pou prezante Wikimedyen ane yo nan espas sa a tou epi yo pral pi devan kreye yon paj "in memoriam" pou rann omaj ak zanmi epi kòlèg Wikimedyen ki pati kite nou yo.
Mea Hanohano
Mo 'wiki'a li nan fon rasin nou an. Nan Hawaiian li siyifi "rapid". Pou onore tèm ekselans sa a, nou ap rele seksyon sa a hanohano ki siyifi onè, distenksyon, ak prestij, epi ajoute mea pou kreye mea hanohano, sa vle di yon moun onorab. Se konsa, nou la pou n selebre onorab Wikimedyen ki gen pi gwo distenksyon ak prestij, Wikimedyen ki gen angajman ak kontribisyon eksepsyonèl.
Nan mwa sa a n ap selebre...
Loretta
For Loretta, Wikimedia is a way to connect to the values she holds as a librarian: a belief in open access to knowledge, and the importance of developing a critical and conscious capacity for judgement – one that helps people recognise when information or knowledge is being misused or distorted.
She would like everyone to know that Wikimedia is “a great community, you can discover and learn about everything, you just need to be a little curious and proactive”.
To date, she has authored 164 Wikipedia articles on a kaleidoscope of topics – from the anti-Nazi cabarets in Munich in the 1930s to Burmese women writers and from the ancient Japanese nomadic puppeteers to the Querelle des femmes.
“I don’t like collecting edits, I like to take my time,” she says. “Most of my articles take a week to a couple of months to write. They’re rarely translations. I focus on little-known subjects and cultures.”
She has also lead many education projects on her home university. Over the course of three years, 317 students participated in those activities and over 400 articles were added to Wikipedia. “I am pleased to have given many students the opportunity to get to know Wikipedia and how it works. To shift from passive readers to active, shared approach to the production and use of knowledge, placing research, selection, and the use of reliable sources at the center of this work”, she reflects.
A commitment that continued even after reaching retirement, extending her collaboration to other schools and institutions in northern and central Italy, and this year, the University of Roma Tre, where the internship started with several students is about to conclude with the publication of a wikibook on the History of Italian Feminism.