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Wikimedia International Update Corner July 2024
What will be going on in the international Wikimedia Space for the rest of the year? Let's have a look at the news and events that will happen in 2024!
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- Global news
- Charter Electoral Commission announced the final results of the Wikimedia Movement Charter voting.
- Individual vote:
- Out of 2,451 individuals who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 2,446 have been accepted as valid votes. Among these, 1,710 voted “yes”; 623 voted “no”; and 113 selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t count towards the total number of votes cast, 73.30% voted to approve the Charter (1710/2333), while 26.70% voted to reject the Charter (623/2333).
- Affiliates vote:
- Out of 129 Affiliates designated voters who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 129 votes are confirmed as valid votes. Among these, 93 voted “yes”; 18 voted “no”; and 18 selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t count towards the total number of votes cast, 83.78% voted to approve the Charter (93/111), while 16.22% voted to reject the Charter (18/111).
- Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation:
- The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees voted not to ratify the proposed Charter during their special Board meeting on July 8, 2024. The Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, Nataliia Tymkiv, shared the result of the vote, the resolution, meeting minutes and proposed next steps.
- With this, the Wikimedia Movement Charter in its current revision is not ratified.
- Current contests
- Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2024 (1 July-31 August 2024) - an annual international campaign where Wikipedia editors across the world, Wikipedia language projects and communities add photos to Wikipedia articles lacking photos. You can check the Meta page how to participate, and/or your local Wikipedia language edition.
- Upcoming meetings & conferences in 2024
- Wikimania 2024 (7–11 August 2024) - the annual global conference of Wikimedia in Katowice, Poland. Second Wikimania in the CEE region, after 2010 in Gdańsk, Poland. Program is published and if you want to be virtually present at Wikimania, you can still register yourself.
- CEE Meeting 2024 (20–22 September 2024) – a yearly meeting of the Central and Eastern European Wikimedians. This year organised in Istanbul, Turkey by Wikimedia UG Türkiye. Registrations for self-funded participants are still open until the July 31st (register).