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Wikimedia International Update Corner November 2023
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 close out a very active 2023!
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- News and updates
- The CEE Hub has published its grant proposal for 2024. The grant proposal is set up in a way that proposes a minimum to keep the current activities and staff going, but also includes optional programs and budget items that would enable the CEE Hub to become more involved in micro grants, project incubation and other aspects of Wikimedia CEE. We will know by some time in December if the proposal is successful!
- The Wikimedia Foundation has published its "Affiliates Strategy Report". While the realisation that AffCom is underresourced for the tasks it is supposed to do comes through quite clearly in the report, how this will change is fairly unclear, especially because the report goes further in its recommendations than the current Movement Charter draft does.
- Speaking of the Movement Charter process, there is currently a public discussion happening on how binding the Movement Strategy Recommendations are, which were triggered by the revelation that some members of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC) don't see them as relevant as most have assumed them to be. This lead to a public statement by the MCDC and the rather obvious question as to how this process can be finished in the next six months when there are still these big differences in perception.
- Upcoming meetings & conferences from September to November
- WikiIndaba 2023 - November 3 - 5 in Agadir, Morocco, the regional conference for Africa. Topics will include discussions on regional African networks and improvements to the Wikimedia infrastructure on the continent. The live stream capacity is not yet known, but there will be recordings.
- WikiConference North America 2023 from November 10 - 12 in Toronto, Canada. The regional conference for North America. Live stream capacity is yet unknown. The conference includes a keynote speech by Sue Gardner, who was the Executive Director of the WMF a very long time ago.
- GLAM Wiki 2023 - November 16-18 in Montevideo, Uruguay. A conference revolving around Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums, with no program published yet at the time of publication of this newsletter. Considering that it is happening in Uruguay there should be some kind of hybrid model for this conference.
- Information and recordings of past meetings & conferences in September and October
- The Open Source Conference Albania (OSCAL) - September 2-3 in Tirana, Albania. OSCAL is an annual event dedicated to tech enthusiasts, developers, and open-source advocates in Albania and beyond since its inception in 2014. You can view gallery of images from the conference on Commons as well. Additionally, you can read report from Marios Magioladitis from Greek community, who was there as a speaker.
- Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2023 - the recordings for these conference can be found on the Wikimedia CEE Youtube channel
- Turkic Wikimedia Conference 2023 - held on October 20-22 in Istanbul, Turkey, it is a conference for the Turkic languages and other invited communities. You should be able to view the recordings from this conference on this Youtube channel in the near future.
- Wiki Women Camp took place on October 19-22 in New Delhi in India. WikiWomenCamp 2023 brought together individuals who identify themselves as women from different countries of the Wikimedia movement, leaders of their respective communities and with strong experience and proven engagement with the gender gap topic. This year's theme for the conference was "Map Up, Rise Up". You can view gallery of images from the conference on Commons and you can find CEE Hub's coordinators presentation from the conference here.