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Invitation to share your ideas on Wikimedia’s Innovation Idea Wall

Dear @Zblace:

Thank you for being part of our, the Innovation team at Wikimedia Deutschland's, journey in developing a new innovation format for the Movement this far (you can read more about it here:Re-imagining_UNLOCK). As we are moving along with our process, we would love to hear your ideas on how to address the challenges that you have helped us identify – challenges that are keeping us from fostering innovation in our communities.

To facilitate collaborative ideation, we have created an Innovation Idea Wall—a virtual space where you can freely scribble down your ideas whenever you find a moment of inspiration. We believe that by putting together the collective wisdom and creativity of Wikimedians like yourself, we can unlock new possibilities for innovation in our Movement.

To access the Innovation Idea Wall, simply follow this link [1]. You will be directed to our concept board, an online whiteboard, where you will find the instructions on how to get started. We assure you that the process is easy to follow along. In brief, we have formulated some questions that we invite you to brainstorm on – any idea is welcome! Your opinions matter greatly to us, as we firmly believe that Wikimedians possess the firsthand knowledge and expertise needed to identify the necessary improvements in our approach to innovation.

We look forward to watching this Idea Wall grow over the coming weeks. The idea wall will be accessible until July 3rd.

Best regards, Sissela Björk (WMDE) (talk) 16:03, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Newsletters: Wikimedians for Sustainable Development

June

This is our seventh newsletter, covering June 2020. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 16 and 17.

Meetings

• Upcoming: 5 July, Wikimedians for Sustainable Development online meeting (SDG 17) [12]
• Upcoming: 18 July, Wikimedians for Sustainable Development online meeting (SDG 17) [12]
• Past: 7 June, Wikimedians for Sustainable Development online meeting (SDG 17) [13]

News

• Webinar: COVID-19 and human rights: How to share the facts on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [1]
• Vad menas egentligen med öppenhet? (Swedish) (SDG 4) [2]
• How Wikipedia Has Responded to the George Floyd Protests (SDG 10) [3]
• 50 000 kvinnor på svenskspråkiga Wikipedia! (Swedish) (SDG 5) [4]

Videos

• COVID & health topics on Wikidata (SDG 3) [9]

New Wikidata properties

• curriculum topics (SDG 4) [5]
• ISCO-08 occupation code (SDG 8) [6]
• FEMA number (SDG 2) [7]
• Democracy Index (SDG 16) [10]

New Wikidata query examples

• Species of birds (SDG 15) [8]
• Wikidata Queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and pandemic (SDG 3) [11]

Links

• [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kktZtDFhRho
• [2] https://wikimedia.se/2020/06/08/vad-menas-egentligen-med-oppenhet/
• [3] https://thewikipedian.net/2020/06/25/how-wikipedia-has-respondedto-the-george-floyd-protests/
• [4] https://wikimedia.se/2020/06/26/50-000-kvinnor-pa-svensksprakiga-wikipedia/
• [5] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8263
• [6] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8283
• [7] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8266
• [8] https://w.wiki/TAt
• [9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwQ93BlDGAM
• [10] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8328
• [11] https://egonw.github.io/SARS-CoV-2-Queries/
• [12] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
• [13] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meeting_minutes_20200607

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July

This is our seventh newsletter, covering June 2020. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 5, 7, 10, 11, 15 and 16.

Meetings

• Upcoming: Wikimedians for Sustainable Development online meeting August 2 (SDG all) [19]
• Upcoming: Wikimedians for Sustainable Development online meeting August 16 (SDG all) [20]
• Past: Wikimedians for Sustainable Development online meeting July 5 (SDG all) [18]

News

• Another Wikipedian is cultivated (SDG 3) [1]
• Wikijournal of Medicine to be indexed in SCOPUS (SDG 3) [2]
• How Wikipedia Became a Battleground for Racial Justice (SDG 10) [3]
• Sask. doctor keeps COVID-19 Wikipedia info accurate with encyclopedic dedication (SDG 3) [4]
• We stand for racial justice (SDG 10) [10]
• Edit Loud, Edit Proud: LGBTIQ+ Wikimedians and Global Information Activism (SDG 10) [15]
• WikiProject Black Lives Matter (SDG 10) [16]
• The Power of Knowledge: A Look at the AfroCROWD Juneteenth Conference on Civil Rights (SDG 10) [24]
• #WikiHerStory: a month-long initiative to amplify gender equity work on Wikimedia projects (SDG 5) [25]
• How the internet will change our coronavirus memories (SDG 3) [26]
• How volunteers created Wikipedia’s world-beating Covid-19 coverage (SDG 3) [30]
• COVIWD - A Covid-19 Wikidata dashboard (SDG 3) [31]

Research

• COVID-19 research in Wikipedia (SDG 3) [11]
• A Quantitative Portrait of Wikipedia's High-Tempo Collaborations during the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic (SDG 3) [12]
• COVID-19 mobility restrictions increased interest in health and entertainment topics on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [13]
• A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata, a case report (SDG 3) [14]

Videos

• Wikimedia Research: Medical knowledge on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [23]
• More black stories need to be told -- and more black contributors need to tell them! (SDG 10) [29]

New WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Black Lives Matter (SDG 10) [17]

Featured content

• Alpine newt (SDG 15) [5]
• Dementia with Lewy bodies (SDG 3) [6]
• Secretarybird (SDG 15) [7]
• List of procyonids (SDG 15) [8]
• List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Berkshire (SDG 15) [8]

New Wikidata properties

• thefreedictionary medical term ID (SDG 3) [21]
• Naturvårdsverket Anordningar OBJECTID (SDG 15) [22]
• public transport stop (SDG 11) [27]
• energy consumption per transaction (SDG 7) [28]
• BTI Governance Index (SDG 16) [32]
• BTI Status Index (SDG 16) [32]
• distribution map of taxon (SDG 15) [34]
• Queensland Biota ID (SDG 15) [35]
• Australian Weed ID (SDG 15) [36]

Links

• [1] https://wikiedu.org/blog/2020/07/01/another-wikipedian-is-cultivated/
• [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-06-28/News_and_notes
• [3] https://slate.com/technology/2020/06/wikipedia-george-floyd-neutrality.html
• [4] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sask-doctor-keeps-covid-19-wikipedia-info-accurate-with-encyclopedic-dedication-1.5619970
• [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_newt
• [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementia_with_Lewy_bodies
• [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretarybird
• [8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_procyonids
• [9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sites_of_Special_Scientific_Interest_in_Berkshire
• [10] https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2020/06/03/we-stand-for-racial-justice/
• [11] https://doi.org/10.1101%2F2020.05.10.087643
• [12] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.08899.pdf
• [13] https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.08505
• [14] https://doi.org/10.1101%2F2020.04.05.026336
• [15] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-06-28/In_focus
• [16] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-06-28/WikiProject_report
• [17] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Black_Lives_Matter
• [18] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meeting_minutes_20200705
• [19] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
• [20] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
• [21] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8401
• [22] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8409
• [23] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIV26lWrD9c
• [24] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/07/14/the-power-of-knowledge-a-look-at-the-afrocrowd-juneteenth-conference-on-civil-rights/
• [25] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/07/14/wikiherstory-a-month-long-initiative-to-amplify-gender-equity-work-on-wikimedia-projects/
• [26] https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/covid19-memory-history
• [27] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8453
• [28] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8461
• [29] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVCViux--xw
• [30] https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/16-07-2020/how-volunteers-created-wikipedias-world-beating-covid-19-coverage/
• [31] https://www.coviwd.org/
• [32] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8476
• [33] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8477
• [34] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8485
• [35] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8468
• [36] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8469

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August

This is our ninth newsletter, covering August 2020. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 4, 6, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 17.

Meetings

• Upcoming: Online meeting - 2020-09-06 (SDG all) [1]
• Upcoming: Online meeting - 2020-09-20 (SDG all) [1]
• Past: Online meeting - 2020-08-02 (SDG all) [2]

Activities

• Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' celebrated its first published translation: 'Réchauffement climatique en Afrique', a French translation of the English Wikipedia article 'Climate change in Africa' by User:J. N. Squire in French (SDGs 4, 13) [20]
• Past: World Water Week ISA campaign (SDG 6) [21]
• Past: Editathon about Covid-19 in Swedish (SDG 3) [22]
• Past: Editathon about water in Swedish (SDG 6) [23]

News

• Covid-19 is one of Wikipedia’s biggest challenges ever. Here’s how the site is handling it. (SDG 3) [12]
• Adding biographies of female oceanographers (SDG 14) [13]
• Wiki Education participants improve COVID-19 local response articles (SDG 3) [14]
• Wikimedia Policy Brief - COVID-19 - How Wikipedia helps us through uncertain times (SDG 3) [15]
• Personal perspective on the forming of the user group (SDG all) [19]

Research

• Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [3]
• Wikidata-focused presentations at the Workshop "Data Science in Climate and Climate Impact Research" taking place on 20-21 August 2020 in Zurich and online. (SDGs 4, 13, 17) [16] [17]

Videos

• Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Data Perspective (SDGs 4, 13, 17) [18]
• Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing about water #17 (SDG 6) [24], [25]

Featured content

• Vermilion flycatcher (SDG 15) [4]
• Canada lynx (SDG 15) [5]
• Meteorological history of Hurricane Dorian (SDG 11) [6]
• Leeches (SDG 15) [7]
• Gigantorhynchus (SDG 15) [8]
• List of World Heritage Sites in Iceland (SDG 11) [9]
• Ursidae (SDG 15) [10]
• Mephitidae (SDG 15) [11]
• Orangutan (SDG 15) [32]
• Horseshoe bat (SDG 15) [33]
• Hurricane Willa (SDG 11) [34]
• List of World Heritage Sites in Lithuania (SDG 11) [35]

New Wikidata properties

• extinction date (SDG 15) [26]
• Monumentbrowser ID (SDG 11) [27]
• Nasjonalt skoleregister ID (SDG 4) [28]
• American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus ID (SDG 11) [29]
• Sculptures and cities database ID for sculptures (SDG 11) [31]

New Wikidata query examples

• Bar chart showing the number of research output (articles, etc) annotated with a SARSCoV2 proteins as 'main subject' (SDG 3) [30]

Links

• [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
• [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meeting_minutes_20200802
• [3] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12109-020-09750-0
• [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermilion_flycatcher
• [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_lynx
• [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorological_history_of_Hurricane_Dorian
• [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leech
• [8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantorhynchus
• [9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Iceland
• [10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursidae
• [11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mephitidae
• [12] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/08/07/wikipedia-covid-coronavirus
• [13] https://wikiedu.org/blog/2020/08/06/adding-biographies-of-female-oceanographers/
• [14] https://wikiedu.org/blog/2020/08/04/wiki-education-participants-improve-covid-19-local-response-articles/
• [15] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Policy_Brief_-_COVID-19_-_How_Wikipedia_helps_us_through_uncertain_times.pdf
• [16] Sarasua, Cristina, & Mietchen, Daniel. (2020, August). Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Community Perspective. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3994272
• [17] Mietchen, Daniel, & Sarasua, Cristina. (2020, August). Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Data Perspective. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3994266
• [18] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntI6hmT-rRc
• [19] https://wikimedia.se/2020/08/19/wikimedians-for-sustainable-development/
• [20] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Climate_translation_project
• [21] https://isa.toolforge.org/campaigns/77
• [22] https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wik-e-meet/6_augusti_2020
• [23] https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wik-e-meet_27_augusti
• [24] https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2744955582456268/
• [25] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDxz652CgwY
• [26] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8556
• [27] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8543
• [28] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8545
• [29] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8540
• [30] https://w.wiki/a5X
• [31] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8521
• [32] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangutan
• [33] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_bat
• [34] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Willa
• [35] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Lithuania

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September

This is our tenth newsletter, covering September 2020. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 5, 6, 10, 11, 13 and 15.

Meetings

• Online meeting October 4 (SDG all) [1]
• Online meeting October 18 (SDG all) [1]

Activities

• Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [17]
• Ongoing: Survey on gender equality on Wikipedia (SDG 5) [12] [13]
• Ongoing: The 'Gender equality 2020' editing week (SDG 5) [15]
• Ongoing: Wiki Loves Fashion 2020 (SDG 5) [16]
• Past: Climate Justice Editathon (SDG 10 & 13) [3]
• Past: Wikimedia Foundation hosts Sustainability Community Roundtable Discussion about carbon credits (SDG 13) [8]
• Past: Wiki loves SDGs - Global Goals Week online edit-a-thon on SDG topics (SDG all) [9] [10] [11]
• Past: WikiGap Skopje 2020 online edit-a-thon (SDG 5) [14]
• Past and ongoing: Wiki Loves Monuments (SDG 11) [22]

News

• Humaniki: Wikimedia Diversity Data Tools (SDG 5) [2]
• How can I get data on all the dams in the world? Use Wikidata (SDG 6) [4]

Research

• Using logical constraints to validate information in collaborative knowledge graphs: a study of COVID-19 on Wikidata (SDG 3) [6]
• Representing COVID-19 information in collaborative knowledge graphs: a study of Wikidata (SDG 3) [21]

Videos

• Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #21 - WikiDojo on the Global Climate Strike (SDG 13) [18]

Featured content

• Zebra (SDG 15) [23]
• Tropical Storm Vicente (SDG 11) [24]

New Wikidata properties

• National Park Service place ID (SDG 15) [19]
• Symptom Ontology ID (SDG 3) [20]

New Wikidata query examples

• Map of organisations/companies developing/manufacturing a vaccine in trials (SDG 3) [5]
• Top World Heritage sites by number of paintings depicting them (SDG 11) [7]

Links

• [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
• [2] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/09/15/humaniki-wikimedia-diversity-data-tools/
• [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Climate_change/Justice#September_18th_%E2%80%93_Climate_justice_Edit-a-thon
• [4] https://addshore.com/2020/09/wikidata-dams/
• [5] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_COVID-19/Queries#Map_of_organisations/companies_developing/manufacturing_a_vaccine_in_trials
• [6] https://zenodo.org/record/4008359
• [7] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_sum_of_all_paintings/Top_World_Heritage_sites_by_number_of_paintings_depicting_them
• [8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81pIvZZTpKU
• [9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Online_edit-a-thon_SDGs_September_2020#Promotion_of_female_editors
• [10] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Encuentros/Editat%C3%B3n_en_l%C3%ADnea_SDG_septiembre_2020
• [11] https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедија:Цели_за_одржлив_развој
• [12] https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедија:Анкета_за_испитување_на_родовата_еднаквост_на_Википедија
• [13] http://wikimedia.rs/anketa-za-ispitivanje-rodne-ravnopravnosti-na-vikipediji/?fbclid=IwAR1Wppdq6tPNus40I9kq_QLZR489T9GBGoBDbDEXe324uZSz_t-qUB-NIdQ
• [14] https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедија:WikiGap_Skopje_2020
• [15] https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедија:Родов_јаз_2020
• [16] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Fashion/2020
• [17] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Climate_translation_project
• [18] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2sujkCwHE0
• [19] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8649
• [20] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8656
• [21] https://zenodo.org/record/4033382
• [22] https://wikilovesmonuments.org
• [23] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra
• [24] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Vicente_(2018)

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November

This is our twelfth newsletter, covering November 2020. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16.

Meetings

• Online meeting December 6 (SDG all) [1]
• Online meeting December 20 (SDG all) [1]

Activities

• Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]
• Ongoing: December Women in Climate Change editathon (SDG 13) [24]
• Past: South South North hosted #Wiki4Climate (SDG 13) [25]
• Past: Enriching parliamentary documents metadata editathon (in Swedish) (SDG 16) [3]

News

• The guardians of Wikipedia's climate page (SDG 13) [6]
• Gender equality survey on Macedonian Wikipedia (SDG 5) [12]
• The future of the Riksdag's data in Wikidata (in Swedish, SDG 16) [21]
• #Wiki4climate newsletter on Spanish Wikipedia: 3 edits in 5 minutes, number one [26] & number two [27] (SDG 13)
• Women’s representation and voice in media coverage of the coronavirus crisis (SDG 3 and 5) [28]

Resources

• The election tracker (SDG 16) [13]
• ALEC (A List of Everything Cool) is a tool to explore biodiversity content in Wikidata (SDG 15) [17]

Research

• A general method for estimating the prevalence of Influenza-Like-Symptoms with Wikipedia data (SDG 3) [4]

Videos

• Thriving Online – How to Be a Climate Wikipedian (SDG 13) [5]
• Strategies for Assembling the Biodiversity Knowledge Graph (SDG 15) [29]

Featured content

• Одржлива енергија (English: Sustainable energy) (SDG 7) [7]
• Договор за неширење на нуклеарно оружје (English: Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons) (SDG 16) [8]
• Инвазивен вид (English: Invasive species) (SDG 15) [9]
• Отпад од храна (English: Food waste) (SDG 12) [10]
• Последици од глобалното затоплување (English: Effects of climate change) (SDG 13) [11]
• List of World Heritage Sites in Sweden (SDG 11) [36]
• List of medieval churches on Gotland (SDG 11) [37]
• List of World Heritage Sites in the Netherlands (SDG 11) [38]
• List of herpestids (SDG 15) [39]
• Australian Journal of Herpetology (SDG 15) [40]

New Wikidata properties

• annual average daily traffic (SDG 11 & 13) [14]
• birth rate (SDG 3) [16]
• dedicated heritage entity (SDG 11) [18]
• poverty incidence (SDG 1) [22]
• water area (SDG 14) [30]
• power consumption index (SDG 7) [31]
• heating energy consumption index (SDG 7) [32]
• edition humboldt digital Flora ID (SDG 15) [33]

New Wikidata query examples

• Occupations of people on Wikidata dying of coronavirus (politician ranks higher than the next 3 occupations combined) (SDG 3) [15]
• Media articles, public documents and academic references on backward/cluster-focused contact tracing (including models) (SDG 3) [19]
• Protected heritage related to the Camino in the Basque Country (SDG 11) [20]
• Aberdeen recycling centers and recycling points (SDG 11) [23]
• Percentage of deaths caused by tuberculosis by decade (SDG 3) [34]
• Map of medicines used (green) to fight infectious diseases (orange) (SDG 3) [35]

Links

• [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
• [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Climate_translation_project
• [3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Sweden/Swedish_Riksdag_documents/Kopplingssprint
• [4] https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14903T
• [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lziiFlU220
• [6] https://mashable.com/feature/climate-change-wikipedia/
• [7] https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Одржлива_енергија
• [8] https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Договор_за_неширење_на_нуклеарно_оружје
• [9] https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Инвазивен_вид
• [10] https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Отпад_од_храна
• [11] https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Последици_од_глобалното_затоплување
• [12] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/11/21/gender-equality-survey-on-macedonian-wikipedia/
• [13] https://datastory.org/sv/data-stories/election-tracker
• [14] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8753
• [15] https://w.wiki/jPA
• [16] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8763
• [17] https://alec-demo.herokuapp.com/
• [18] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8786
• [19] https://w.wiki/bo6
• [20] https://w.wiki/6c3
• [21] https://wikimedia.se/2020/11/17/framtiden-for-riksdagens-data-i-wikidata/
• [22] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8843
• [23] https://w.wiki/nMw
• [24] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Climate_Change
• [25] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Online_edit-a-thon_on_climate_change_-_November_2020
• [26] https://scann.medium.com/wiki4climate-en-cinco-ediciones-n%C3%BAmero-uno-eed40f3aae2c
• [27] https://scann.medium.com/wiki4climate-en-3-ediciones-n%C3%BAmero-2-a7da29954e3
• [28] https://www.kcl.ac.uk/giwl/assets/covid-media-analysis.pdf
• [29] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NXbPOAjZBY
• [30] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8887
• [31] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8890
• [32] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8891
• [33] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8892
• [34] https://w.wiki/nir
• [35] https://w.wiki/oNW
• [36] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Sweden
• [37] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medieval_churches_on_Gotland
• [38] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_the_Netherlands
• [39] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_herpestids
• [40] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Journal_of_Herpetology

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December Newsletter

This is our thirteenth newsletter, covering December 2020. This issue has news related to SDGs 2, 4, 11, 13 and 15.

Meetings

• Online meeting January 3 (SDG all) [1]
• Online meeting January 17 (SDG all) [1]

Activities

• Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]
• Past: December Women in Climate Change editathon (SDG 13) [3]

News

• Corona vaccine progress (SDG 3) [8]
• A challenging but successful year for Wikimedia in education (SDG 4) [9]

Videos

• Wikidata for Bat Collectors (SDG 15) [5]
• Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #25 - climate change (SDG 13) [10]
• Wikipedia and Women in the Climate Change Movement (SDG 13) [11]
• Facing the climate crisis: Towards an environmentally sustainable Wikimedia Movement (Wikimedia Movement Strategy global conversations lightning talk) (SDG 13) [16]
• An update from the Sustainability Initiative (WikiCon North America 2020 lightning talk) (SDG 13) [17]

New WikiProjects

• Wikidata:WikiProject Agriculture (SDG 2) [4]
• Wikidata:WikiProject Media Representation (SDG 5) [6]

Featured content

• Scorpion (SDG 15) [12]
• List of plant genus names (A–C) (SDG 15) [13]
• List of plant genus names (D–K) (SDG 15) [14]
• List of plant genus names (L–P) (SDG 15) [15]

New Wikidata properties

• Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager project ID (SDG 11) [7]

Links

• [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
• [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Climate_translation_project
• [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Climate_Change
• [4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Agriculture
• [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYvoXKBSGA8
• [6] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Media_Representation
• [7] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8973
• [8] https://github.com/salgo60/CoronaVaccinationCheck/blob/main/README.md
• [9] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/12/18/a-challenging-but-successful-year-for-wikimedia-in-education/
• [10] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmzEk8uYSf4
• [11] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwY02vBCgnI
• [12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpion
• [13] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_plant_genus_names_(A%E2%80%93C)
• [14] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_plant_genus_names_(D%E2%80%93K)
• [15] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_plant_genus_names_(L%E2%80%93P)
• [16] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:5_December_Global_Conversations_lightning_talks_-_Facing_the_climate_crisis.webm
• [16] https://mit.zoom.us/rec/play/zG7xM6nYDn5JRFh2wxWFiNLwonxCQlyAiJpmRN-PBZoWQr52hh-Kxfgk7kNLoPUrf_BlGEKEqDOnXUM.r18YQCGp6r-VIe6y (at 31:00)

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October

This is our eleventh newsletter, covering October 2020. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 4, 8, 11, 13, 15 and 16.

Meetings

• Online meeting November 1 (SDG all) [1]
• Online meeting November 15 (SDG all) [1]
• Past: Prioritization event survey (SDG all) [26]

Activities

• Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]
• Upcoming: Enriching parliamentary documents metadata editathon (in Swedish) (SDG 16) [27]
• Past: Wiki for UN writing campaign (SDG 17) [28]

News

• Wikipedia and Sustainable Development Goals: Engaging smaller Wikipedias (SDG all) [3]
• The World Health Organization and Wikimedia Foundation expand access to trusted information about COVID-19 on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [10]
• Improving reproductive health articles on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [11]
• Wiki Loves SDGs: A community of Global Goals factivists (SDG all) [12]
• Analyze Swedish politics with Wikidata (SDG 16) [17]

Resources

• GUIDE: How to contribute climate change information to Wikipedia (SDG 13) [25]

Videos

• 2020-09-29 Houcemeddine Turki, U of Sfax: Wikidata & COVID-19, a collaborative KG from CORD-19 (SDG 3) [4]
• WikiCite 2020: OpenVirus and Scholia interfaces (SDG 3) [13]
• WikiCite 2020: Citations in Swedish Parliamentary documents (SDG 16) [18]
• WikiCite 2020: Gene Wiki (SDG 3) [19]

New Wikidata properties

• Symptom Ontology ID (SDG 3) [6]
• SSYK 2012 The Swedish Standard Classification of Occupations (SDG 8) [7]
• Native Plants Database ID (SDG 15) [8]
• NBIC taxon ID (SDG 15) [14]
• Danish educational institution number (SDG 4) [15]
• economy of topic (SDG 8) [20]
• American Heritage place ID (SDG 11) [21]
• DC Historic Sites place ID (SDG 11) [22]

New Wikidata query examples

• Map of trees whose species is categorized as threatened on the IUCN Red List (SDG 15) [5]
• Map of outdoor warning sirens, color-coded by manufacturer (SDG 11) [9]
• Scientific papers explaining backward contact tracing (SDG 3) [16]
• Invasive species in EU and whether they have articles in different languages (SDG 15) [23]
• COVID-19 deaths by month (SDG 3) [24]

Links

• [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
• [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Climate_translation_project
• [3] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/10/08/wikipedia-and-sustainable-development-goals-engaging-smaller-wikipedias/
• [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwudGFtT4A4
• [5] https://tinyurl.com/y3wna59m
• [6] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8656
• [7] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8654
• [8] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8660
• [9] https://tinyurl.com/y6k3ocbs
• [10] https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2020/10/22/world-health-organization-and-wikimedia-foundation-expand-access/
• [11] https://wikiedu.org/blog/2020/10/22/improving-reproductive-health-articles-on-wikipedia/
• [12] https://www.globalgoals.org/news/wiki-loves-sdgs
• [13] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kQnT5Yra1U
• [14] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8707
• [15] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8708
• [16] https://w.wiki/fAy
• [17] https://wikimedia.se/2020/10/26/analyze-swedish-politics-with-wikidata/
• [18] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMtP64yFKn0
• [19] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsJScOYVLVc
• [20] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8744
• [21] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8723
• [22] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8747
• [23] https://w.wiki/hbs
• [24] https://w.wiki/iqE
• [25] https://cdkn.org/resource/guide-how-to-contribute-climate-change-information-to-wikipedia/
• [26] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Prioritization_event_survey
• [27] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Sweden/Swedish_Riksdag_documents/Kopplingssprint
• [28] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_for_UN

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January

This is our fourteenth newsletter, covering January 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13 and 15 .

Meetings

• Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [1]
• Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [1]
• Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Alignment with environmental sustainability February 7 (SDG 13) [10]
• Wikimedia Strategy Follow-up calls: Identify Topics for Impact February 5 (SDG all) [23]

Activities

• Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]

News

• The Vaccine Safety Project on Wikipedia (SDG 3) [3]
• Wiki for COVID-19: 2020, the year of Information (SDG 3) [6]
• One Page At A Time, Jess Wade Is Changing Wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]
• The Women of Wikipedia Are Writing Themselves Into History (SDG 5) [19]

Research

• Building a biological knowledge graph via Wikidata with a focus on the Human Cell Atlas (SDG 3) [7]
• Open Wikipedia Dataset on COVID-19 from IBS Data Science Group (SDG 3) [8]
• A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on human coronaviruses (SDG 3) [9]
• Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize: Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [20]
• Multilingual Contextual Affective Analysis of LGBT People Portrayals in Wikipedia (SDG 10) [21]
• Wikipedia as OER: the "Learning with Wikipedia" (SDG 4) [22]

New Wikidata properties

• derived from organism type (SDG 15) [14]
• number of aid beneficiaries (SDG all) [15]
• Australian Fungi ID (SDG 15) [16]
• Red Cross FDRS ID (SDG 3) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

• Number of people who have died, or been diagnosed, of COVID-19, grouped by occupation (SDG 3) [4]
• Map of gram panchayats in Kerala by literacy rate in 2001 (SDG 4) [5]
• Map of Kolkata wards by number of schools (SDG 4) [11]
• Red Cross and Red Crescent societies (SDG 3) [12]
• Mangifera species and mango cultivars (SDG 1) [13]

Links

• [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
• [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Climate_translation_project
• [3] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/01/04/the-vaccine-safety-project-on-wikipedia/
• [4] https://w.wiki/sRE
• [5] https://w.wiki/sWv
• [6] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/01/08/wiki-for-covid-19-2020-the-year-of-information/
• [7] https://bv.fapesp.br/en/bolsas/193825/building-a-biological-knowledge-graph-via-wikidata-with-a-focus-on-the-human-cell-atlas/
• [8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8sMVkEOQVE
• [9] https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-020-00940-y
• [10] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transition/Discuss/Cluster_G
• [11] https://w.wiki/swj
• [12] https://w.wiki/u4G
• [13] https://w.wiki/rp7
• [14] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9072
• [15] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9077
• [16] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9076
• [17] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9079
• [18] https://www.npr.org/2021/01/04/953334366/one-page-at-a-time-jess-wade-is-changing-wikipedia
• [19] https://www.glamour.com/story/the-women-of-wikipedia-are-writing-themselves-into-history
• [20] https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs12109-020-09750-0
• [21] https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10820
• [22] https://doi.org/10.20368%2F1971-8829%2F1135322
• [23] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transition/Discuss/Cluster_H

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February

This is our fifteenth newsletter, covering February 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 5, 12, 13, 15 and 16.

Meetings

• Online user group meeting March 7 (SDG all) [1]
• Online user group meeting March 21 (SDG all) [1]
• Past: Online user group meeting February 7 (SDG all) [5]
• Past: Online user group meeting February 21 (SDG all) [6]

Activities

• Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]
• Upcoming: Wikigap - many events over the entire month of March (SDG 5) [12]
• Upcoming: Mozilla festival: What has the Wikimedia movement to do with sustainability? March 10 (SDG all) [22]
• Wikimeet India lightning talk: An update from the Sustainability Initiative (video recording) (SDG 13) [9]

News

• Building a sustainable Wikipedia (podcast) (SDG all) [3]
• Wikipedia-samarbete mellan klimatforskare och gymnasieelever (in Swedish. English title: Wikipedia collaboration between climate scientists and college students) (SDG 13) [4]
• Wikipedia’s Sprawling, Awe-Inspiring Coverage of the Pandemic (SDG 3) [10]
• Podcast: Sustainababble #205 Wikipedia (SDG all) [21]

Grant proposals
Help by discussing and reviewing these proposals

• Expanding the Wikimedia movement in Peru with a focus on ecology, culture and gender (SDG 5 and 15) [8]
• Wiki’s global goals (SDG all) [18]
• Wiki meets Sustainable Fashion (SDG 12) [19]

Videos

• Wikipedia Weekly Network - Live editing Wikipedia: Biodiversity edition #1 (SDG 15) [11]
• COVID-19 coverage on Wikidata (SDG 3) [20]

New WikiProjects

• Wikiproyecto:Cambio climático (SDG 13) [7]
• WikiProject Brazilian Laws (SDG 16) [15]

Featured content

• Featured article: Smooth newt (SDG 15) [23]

New Wikidata properties

• number of vaccinations (SDG 3) [13]
• Open Tree of Life ID (SDG 15) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

• Endemic birds in a place located in France (SDG 15) [14]
• Most specific taxon that includes two given species (SDG 15) [16]

Links

• [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
• [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Climate_translation_project
• [3] https://headstuffpodcasts.com/episode/building-a-sustainable-wikipedia
• [4] https://www.geo.uu.se/nyheter/?tarContentId=913412
• [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meeting_minutes_20210207
• [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meeting_minutes_20210221
• [7] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiproyecto:Cambio_clim%C3%A1tico
• [8] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Expanding_the_Wikimedia_movement_in_Peru_with_a_focus_on_ecology,_culture_and_gender
• [9] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Wikimeet_India_2021/Submissions/An_update_from_the_Sustainability_Initiative
• [10] https://newrepublic.com/article/161486/wikipedia-coverage-pandemic-covid
• [11] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhObYsuy37Q
• [12] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap/2021/Events
• [13] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9107
• [14] https://w.wiki/xs3
• [15] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Brazilian_Laws
• [16] https://w.wiki/zPN
• [17] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9157
• [18] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wiki%E2%80%99s_global_goals
• [19] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wiki_meets_Sustainable_Fashion
• [20] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYJvBgVWTqM
• [21] http://www.sustainababble.fish/?p=1242
• [22] https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/KJMLPY-1
• [23] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth_newt

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Wikimedia CEE Online Meeting 2020 submissions

Dear Z,

On behalf of the Wikimedia CEE Online Meeting 2020 programme committee, I am pleased to inform you that your submissions "#notNewNORMAL - questioning routines and innovating wiki work" and "#femWikiRAINBOW #checkInEditON" have been accepted as a workshop and a panel, and they were scheduled for 16:00 (UTC) on Saturday, 3 October and 09:00 (UTC) on Sunday, 4 October, respectively (see the draft schedule). If you have not yet registered for the conference, please follow the instructions on this page. In case you have any additional requests or questions, do not hesitate to contact me or any other committee member.

Best regards. --Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 17:45, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Wiki World Heritage User Group

Dear World Heritage enthusiast,
We are thrilled to announce that Wiki World Heritage User Group has been finally recognized ! This wouldn't have been possible without your support !
Please join us on:

• WWH mailing list,
• WWH Telegram group .

Wishing you an excellent week ahead !

Nassima Chahboun (talk) 15:56, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
On behalf of the founding members.

Hello there!

Just a note to acknowledge that now I have a Wikimedian user name to go with the name at the conference. (And so do you.) -- Llywrch (talk) 16:41, 25 November 2020 (UTC) (a.k.a. Yvette's husband)

OSM and commercial participation

I am not looking for your feedback on this particularly but I do want your awareness for the future.

• Talk:OpenStreetMap#Community_organization_-_commercial_contributors_-_OSM_and_Wiki

I know you advocate strongly for volunteers. I would like to soon, probably in the context of labor rights for volunteers, to make some community demands in response to the WMF inviting in commercial players. Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:44, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

Wiki World Heritage UG preparatory meeting

Hello Zblace,
The first preparatory meeting of Wiki World Heritage User Group will be held on 26 December 2020 at 16:00 UTC, and are looking forward to having you with us!

• Meeting link : Here
• Meeting ID : 763 8364 4697
• Password: WWH

You are also invited to join us on WWH mailing list and WWH Telegram group.
Thank you !

Yamen (talk) 19:10, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
On behalf of the founding members.

Wiki World Heritage UG board election

Hello Zblace,

Following the meeting of 26.12.2020, Wiki World Heritage User Group is choosing its first board !
You can find the elections page here.

Nassima Chahboun (talk) 21:11, 27 December 2020 (UTC)
On behalf of the founding members.

Movement Strategy: Follow-Up Event on Funding for underrepresented communities

Hello! You have expressed interest in joining our follow-up event funding for underrepresented communities. It will take place on Friday, January 29, between 15:00 to 17:00 UTC. The event will take place on Zoom, here's the Zoom link. The call does not have a password. If you would like to have proper calendar invite for your digital calendar, please email us strategy2030wikimedia.org. See you on Friday, --Cornelius Kibelka (WMF) (talk to me) 18:52, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 January 2021

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: 1,000,000,000 edits, board elections, virtual Wikimania 2021

• Special report: Wiki reporting on the insurrection

• In focus: From Anarchy to Wikiality, Glaring Bias to Good Cop: Press Coverage of Wikipedia's First Two Decades

• Opinion: Wikipedia's war against scientific disinformation

• In the media: The world's press says "Happy Birthday!" with a few twists

• Technology report: The people who built Wikipedia, technically

• Videos and podcasts: Celebrating 20 years

• News from the WMF: Wikipedia celebrates 20 years of free, trusted information for the world

• Recent research: Students still have a better opinion of Wikipedia than teachers

• Humour: Dr. Seuss's Guide to Wikipedia

• Featured content: New Year, same Featured Content report!

• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2020

• Obituary: Flyer22 Frozen

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This Month in Education: February 2021

This Month in Education Volume 10 • Issue 2 • February 2021 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issuse Wikimedia Education news bytes Featured education community member of February 2021 Karvachar Wikiclub continues its activities online Over 4,000 more references added! 1Lib1Ref campaign in Poland Philippines Climate Change Translate-a-thon

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Wiki World Heritage UG Minutes of the Meeting 02-13-2021

Hello Zblace!

The first meeting of the Board of Wiki World Heritage User Group (WWH UG) was held last February 13, 2021. Board members discussed several topics including the dispatching of roles inside the board. You can find the minutes of the meeting via the following link [1].

Also, the board discussed the importance of capacity building for the group members and we would like to invite all the members to fill the following form [2] in order to help define the learning priorities.

Furthermore, the board discussed some ideas for the 2021 annual program but we would like to hear also from the members in case they would like to propose some activities. We would like to invite you to update this page and add any potential activities[3].

A meeting will be held in the first week of March in order to finalize the program and you can find below [4] a doodle link to choose the date and time that suits you.

You are also invited to join us on WWH mailing list and WWH Telegram group.
Thank you !

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_World_Heritage_User_Group/Meeting_minutes_20210213
[2] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSde6BsB8v9WwbLtE0_n5kT0TmZoYXsaFQN2ijP-XZFsJcWmcw/viewform
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_World_Heritage_User_Group/Calendar2021
[4] https://doodle.com/poll/4qmstzpwaxu45pwr

Imelda Brazal (Talk)
Members Liaison, Wiki World Heritage User Group
On behalf of the Board Members

The Signpost: 28 February 2021

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Maher stepping down

• Disinformation report: A "billionaire battle" on Wikipedia: Sex, lies, and video

• Opinion: The call for feedback on community seats is a distraction

• In the media: Corporate influence at OSM, Fox watching the hen house

• News from the WMF: Who tells your story on Wikipedia

• Recent research: Take an AI-generated flashcard quiz about Wikipedia; Wikipedia's anti-feudalism

• Featured content: A Love of Knowledge, for Valentine's Day

• Traffic report: Does it almost feel like you've been here before?

• Gallery: What is Black history and culture?

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Sunday March 21 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Community as a hand-carved gem.

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.

Following up on the August, September, October, November, January, and February SWAN meetings and June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Grants relaunch, Universal Code of Conduct/Discussions, Wikimedia Enterprise / OKAPI, Community Board seats, Interim Global Council + Movement Charter, and WMF Executive Transition

This month we are meeting on Sunday March 21, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(Note that the UTC times of 03:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC are the same as before, although some places have had daylight savings time changes since our last meeting).--Pharos (talk) 19:46, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

This Month in Education: March 2021

This Month in Education Volume 10 • Issue 3 • March 2021 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issuse A Wikipedia Webinar for Indonesian Women Teachers Educational program of GLAM Macedonia Filling the Gaps & Open Education Week Meet this month's featured Wikimedia & Education community member: Bara'a Zama'reh Using Wikipedia and Bridging the Gender Gap: In-Service training for Teachers in Philippines

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The Signpost: 28 March 2021

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: A future with a for-profit subsidiary?

• Gallery: Wiki Loves Monuments

• In the media: Wikimedia LLC and disinformation in Japan

• News from the WMF: Project Rewrite: Tell the missing stories of women on Wikipedia and beyond

• Recent research: 10%-30% of Wikipedia’s contributors have subject-matter expertise

• From the archives: Google isn't responsible for Wikipedia's mistakes

• Essay: Wikipedia:The Free Encyclopedia

• Obituary: Yoninah

• From the editor: What else can we say?

• Arbitration report: Open letter to the Board of Trustees

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - March 2021 Newsletter

This is our sixteenth newsletter, covering March 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 4, 11, 13 and 15. This month we handed in our first annual activity report. [7]

Meetings

• Online user group meeting April 4 (SDG all) [1]
• Online user group meeting April 18 (SDG all) [1]
• Past: Online user group meeting March 7 (SDG all) [5]

Activities

• Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]
• Upcoming: Climate Lexeme Week 5-11 April (SDG 13) [4]
• Upcoming: #WikiForHumanRights 2021: Right to a healthy environment (SDG all) [20]

News

• Podcast on the Wikimedia Sustainability Initiative (SDG 13) [8]

Research

• Global biodiversity awareness tracked with Wikipedia page views (SDG 15) [3]
• COVIWD: COVID-19 Wikidata Dashboard (SDG 3) [10]
• Painel de informação sobre a COVID-19: consultas SPARQL na Wikidata (Portuguese) (SDG 3) [15]

Videos

• What has the Wikimedia movement to do with sustainability? (SDG 13) [6]
• COVID-19 coverage on Wikidata (SDG 3) [9]

New Wikidata properties

• NParks Flora & Fauna Web ID (SDG 15) [11]
• Cephalopod Ontology ID (SDG 15) [12]
• Encyclopedia of French Cultural Heritage in North America ID (SDG 11) [16]
• Ministry of Education New Zealand school ID (SDG 4) [17]
• Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology ID (SDG 15) [18]

New Wikidata query examples

• COVID-19 external Identifier URLs in Wikidata (SDG 3) [13]
• Map of places in iNaturalist (SDG 15) [14]
• Listed buildings in Wales that would be lost if the sea level rose by 70 metres (SDG 11) [19]

Links

• [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
• [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Climate_translation_project
• [3] https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/ucl-gba031921.php
• [4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Climate_Change/Climate_lexeme_week
• [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meeting_minutes_20210307
• [6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvLnIsgZ2AI
• [7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Reports/2020
• [8] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WP_127_-_sustainability_initiative.mp3
• [9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYJvBgVWTqM
• [10] https://dx.doi.org/10.21609/jiki.v14i1.941
• [11] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9243
• [12] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9334
• [13] https://w.wiki/36ss
• [14] https://w.wiki/37T2
• [15] https://revistas.ufpr.br/atoz/article/view/76684/42120
• [16] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9357
• [17] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9360
• [18] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9356
• [19] https://w.wiki/38Lr
• [20] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - March 2021 Newsletter

This is our sixteenth newsletter, covering March 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 4, 11, 13 and 15. This month we handed in our first annual activity report. [7]

Meetings

• Online user group meeting April 4 (SDG all) [1]
• Online user group meeting April 18 (SDG all) [1]
• Past: Online user group meeting March 7 (SDG all) [5]

Activities

• Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]
• Upcoming: Climate Lexeme Week 5-11 April (SDG 13) [4]
• Upcoming: #WikiForHumanRights 2021: Right to a healthy environment (SDG all) [20]

News

• Podcast on the Wikimedia Sustainability Initiative (SDG 13) [8]

Research

• Global biodiversity awareness tracked with Wikipedia page views (SDG 15) [3]
• COVIWD: COVID-19 Wikidata Dashboard (SDG 3) [10]
• Painel de informação sobre a COVID-19: consultas SPARQL na Wikidata (Portuguese) (SDG 3) [15]

Videos

• What has the Wikimedia movement to do with sustainability? (SDG 13) [6]
• COVID-19 coverage on Wikidata (SDG 3) [9]

New Wikidata properties

• NParks Flora & Fauna Web ID (SDG 15) [11]
• Cephalopod Ontology ID (SDG 15) [12]
• Encyclopedia of French Cultural Heritage in North America ID (SDG 11) [16]
• Ministry of Education New Zealand school ID (SDG 4) [17]
• Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology ID (SDG 15) [18]

New Wikidata query examples

• COVID-19 external Identifier URLs in Wikidata (SDG 3) [13]
• Map of places in iNaturalist (SDG 15) [14]
• Listed buildings in Wales that would be lost if the sea level rose by 70 metres (SDG 11) [19]

Links

• [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
• [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Climate_translation_project
• [3] https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/ucl-gba031921.php
• [4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Climate_Change/Climate_lexeme_week
• [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meeting_minutes_20210307
• [6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvLnIsgZ2AI
• [7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Reports/2020
• [8] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WP_127_-_sustainability_initiative.mp3
• [9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYJvBgVWTqM
• [10] https://dx.doi.org/10.21609/jiki.v14i1.941
• [11] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9243
• [12] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9334
• [13] https://w.wiki/36ss
• [14] https://w.wiki/37T2
• [15] https://revistas.ufpr.br/atoz/article/view/76684/42120
• [16] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9357
• [17] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9360
• [18] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9356
• [19] https://w.wiki/38Lr
• [20] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights

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Sunday April 25 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Swanlings grow up together.

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.

Following up on the August, September, October, November, January, February, and March SWAN meetings and June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Interim Global Council + Movement Charter, WMF Resolution about the upcoming Board elections, Community Resilience and Sustainability role in Movement Strategy coordination, Grants Strategy Relaunch, and WMF Executive Transition

This month we are meeting on Sunday April 25, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(Note that the UTC times of 03:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC are the same as before, although some places may have had daylight savings time changes since our last meeting).--Pharos (talk) 04:22, 23 April 2021 (UTC)

Queering Wikipedia 2021 User Group Working Days: May 14-16

The Wikimedia LGBTQ+ User Group is holding online working days in May. If you’re an active Wikimedian, editing on LGBTQ+ issues or if you identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community, come help us set goals, develop our organisation and structures, consider how to respond to issues faced by Queer editors, and plan for the next 12 months.

We will be meeting online for 3 half-days, 14–16 May at 1400–1730 UTC. While our working language is English, we are looking to accommodate users who would prefer to participate in other languages, including translation facilities.

More information, and registration details, at QW2021.--Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group 15:48, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 April 2021

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editor: A change is gonna come

• Disinformation report: The Trump Organization's paid editors

• In the media: Fernando, governance, and rugby

• Opinion: The (Universal) Code of Conduct

• Op-Ed: A Little Fun Goes A Long Way

• Changing the world: The reach of protest images on Wikipedia

• Recent research: Quality of aquatic and anatomical articles

• Traffic report: The verdict is guilty, guilty, guilty

• News from Wiki Education: Encouraging professional physicists to engage in outreach on Wikipedia

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This Month in Education: April 2021

This Month in Education Volume 10 • Issue 4 • April 2021 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issuse Collaboration with Brusov State University Editing contest "Meet Russia" Educational project: Wikipedia at the University with the University Center for Economic-Administrative Sciences (Centro Universitario de Ciencias Económico Administrativas (CUCEA)) of the University of Guadalajara Regional Meeting of Latin American Education by the EWOC Students of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade have started an internship program

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - April 2021 Newsletter

This is our seventeenth newsletter, covering April 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 5, 8, 10, 11, 13, 15 and 16.

Meetings

• Online user group meeting May 2 (SDG all) [1]
• Online user group meeting May 16 (SDG all) [1]
• Past: Online user group meeting April 4 (SDG all) [9]
• Past: Online user group meeting April 18 (SDG all) [10]

Activities

• Ongoing: #WikiForHumanRights 2021: Right to a healthy environment, April 15 - May 15 (SDG all) [2]
• Ongoing: Wiki Loves Earth (SDG 15) Starts in May, check your local end date[8]
• Upcoming: Festa da Wiki-Lusofonia, May 8 (SDG all) [21]
• Past: LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call: “GaNCH: Using Wikidata for Georgia's Natural, Cultural, and Historic Organizations' Disaster Response.” (SDG 11) [3]

News

• Interview with Anastasia Petrova, project manager for Wiki Loves Earth international (SDG 15) [11]
• Humaniki March Update: Public Launch of Alpha Release (SDG 5) [13]

Videos

• Wikidata Lab XXVII: WikiProject Brazilian Laws (SDG 16) [4]

New Wikidata properties

• law digest (SDG 16) [5]
• trade union membership rate (SDG 8) [6]
• NHS Organisation Data Service ID (SDG 3) [7]
• OregonFlora taxon ID (SDG 15) [12]
• Indigenous Lands in Brazil ID (SDG 10) [14]
• National Database of Laws and Regulations ID (SDG 16) [15]
• National Inventory of Dams ID (SDG 7) [16]
• Washington Rare Plant Field Guide ID (SDG 15) [17]

New Wikidata query examples

• Coal-fired power plants in Germany (SDG 13) [18]
• The number of natural disasters in various countries since 1970 (SDG 11) [19]
• Map of about one third of the ancient trees in Bulgaria (SDG 15) [20]

Links

• [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
• [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights
• [3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zcVtZiMgz4kNEs-yL8vqC4eCholllpQ8whX2pb7qUcI/edit
• [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWeJ0wlezyw
• [5] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9376
• [6] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9396
• [7] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9372
• [8] http://wikilovesearth.org/
• [9] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meeting_minutes_20210404
• [10] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meeting_minutes_20210418
• [11] http://wikipediapodden.se/episode-133-wiki-loves-earth/
• [12] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9423
• [13] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/03/15/humaniki-march-update-public-launch-of-alpha-release/
• [14] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9442
• [15] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9457
• [16] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9439
• [17] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9460
• [18] https://w.wiki/3DoA
• [19] https://w.wiki/3Cs8
• [20] https://w.wiki/3EtL
• [21] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Festa_da_Wiki-Lusofonia/Eventos/Sess%C3%A3o_principal

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demo of communication

just something in the body --Zblace (talk) 16:26, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

This Month in Education: May 2021

This Month in Education Volume 10 • Issue 5 • May 2021 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issue A Multimedia-Rich Wikiversity MOOC from Brazil Meet this month's featured Wikimedia & Education community member: Maria Weronika Kmoch Offline workshop with Nikola Koperniku High School in Albania Wiki Education Program Organized with the University Students for the First time in Bangladesh Wikimedia Commons workshop with high school students in Kosovo Wikipedia training for the Bearers of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Poland “Writing a Wikipedia article isn’t as difficult and unimaginable as it seems”: A case for Wikipedia Education Program in Ukraine

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - May 2021 Newsletter

This is our eighteenth newsletter, covering May 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 9, 13 and 15. This month we especially saw a lot of new identifiers for different species in Wikidata, making it easier to use Wikidata as a hub and look up and compare species in different databases.

Meetings

• Online user group meeting June 6 (SDG all) [1]
• Online user group meeting June 20 (SDG all) [1]
• Past: Online user group meeting May 16 (SDG all) []

Activities

• Ongoing: Wiki Loves Earth (SDG 15) [2]
• Past: Sharing lessons & results from the Spanish Wikiproject Climate change first edit-a-thon for Earth Day (SDG 13) [3]
• Past: Sustainable Development Goals: Edit-a-thon for the Festa da Wiki-Lusofonia (20 years of Portuguese Wikipedia cellebrations) (SDG all) [4]

News

• Over 3,000,000 usages of taxon name (P225) (SDG 15) [6]

New Wikidata properties

• degrees day (SDG 13) [5]
• Oregon Flora Image Project ID (SDG 15) [7]
• MyBIS species ID (SDG 15) [8]
• IUCN Green List ID (SDG 15 [9]
• OpenCorporates register ID (SDG 9) [10]
• MyBIS protected area ID (SDG 15) [11]
• Danish 2010 redlist identifier (SDG 15) [12]
• Microlepidoptera.nl ID (SDG 15) [13]
• North Carolina session law (SDG 16) [15]
• SOR bird ID (SDG 15) [16]
• ToateAnimalele ID (SDG 15) [17]
• Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa ID (SDG 15) [21]

New Wikidata query examples

• Number of species belonging to the different IUCN conservation categories (SDG 15) [14]
• Map of coronavirus research organizations active from before 2020 (SDG 3) [18]
• Scholarly articles about COVID-19 with "Wikipedia" in the title (SDG 3) [19]
• Nocturnal animals based on diel cycle (SDG 15) [20]

Links

• [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
• [2] http://wikilovesearth.org/
• [3] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/05/05/sharing-results-lessons-from-the-spanish-wikproject-climate-change-first-edit-a-thon-for-earth-day/
• [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Festa_da_Wiki-Lusofonia/Eventos/Sess%C3%A3o_principal/Maratona_de_edi%C3%A7%C3%A3o
• [5] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9496
• [6] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2021/05#Over_3,000,000_usages_of_taxon_name_(P225)
• [7] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9501
• [8] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9503
• [9] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9516
• [10] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9532
• [11] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9552
• [12] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9576
• [13] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9580
• [14] https://w.wiki/3Kuh
• [15] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9590
• [16] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9595
• [17] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9596
• [18] https://w.wiki/3MZJ
• [19] https://w.wiki/3NMQ
• [20] https://w.wiki/3NQN
• [21] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9608

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Sunday June 6 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Swan of healing.

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.

Following up on the August, September, October, November, January, February, March, and April SWAN meetings, as well as last June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Movement Charter + Movement Strategy/Events, WMF Board elections, Wikimania 2021, and Grants Regional Committees.

This month we are meeting on Sunday June 6, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC – *Note that we have shifted the second call an hour earlier in UTC time due to popular demand and to accomodate daylight savings*.)--Pharos (talk) 20:49, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - May 2021 Newsletter

This is our eighteenth newsletter, covering May 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 9, 13 and 15. This month we especially saw a lot of new identifiers for different species in Wikidata, making it easier to use Wikidata as a hub and look up and compare species in different databases.

Meetings

• Online user group meeting June 6 (SDG all) [1]
• Online user group meeting June 20 (SDG all) [1]
• Past: Online user group meeting May 16 (SDG all) []

Activities

• Ongoing: Wiki Loves Earth (SDG 15) [2]
• Past: Sharing lessons & results from the Spanish Wikiproject Climate change first edit-a-thon for Earth Day (SDG 13) [3]
• Past: Sustainable Development Goals: Edit-a-thon for the Festa da Wiki-Lusofonia (20 years of Portuguese Wikipedia cellebrations) (SDG all) [4]

News

• Over 3,000,000 usages of taxon name (P225) (SDG 15) [6]

New Wikidata properties

• degrees day (SDG 13) [5]
• Oregon Flora Image Project ID (SDG 15) [7]
• MyBIS species ID (SDG 15) [8]
• IUCN Green List ID (SDG 15 [9]
• OpenCorporates register ID (SDG 9) [10]
• MyBIS protected area ID (SDG 15) [11]
• Danish 2010 redlist identifier (SDG 15) [12]
• Microlepidoptera.nl ID (SDG 15) [13]
• North Carolina session law (SDG 16) [15]
• SOR bird ID (SDG 15) [16]
• ToateAnimalele ID (SDG 15) [17]
• Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa ID (SDG 15) [21]

New Wikidata query examples

• Number of species belonging to the different IUCN conservation categories (SDG 15) [14]
• Map of coronavirus research organizations active from before 2020 (SDG 3) [18]
• Scholarly articles about COVID-19 with "Wikipedia" in the title (SDG 3) [19]
• Nocturnal animals based on diel cycle (SDG 15) [20]

Links

• [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
• [2] http://wikilovesearth.org/
• [3] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/05/05/sharing-results-lessons-from-the-spanish-wikproject-climate-change-first-edit-a-thon-for-earth-day/
• [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Festa_da_Wiki-Lusofonia/Eventos/Sess%C3%A3o_principal/Maratona_de_edi%C3%A7%C3%A3o
• [5] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9496
• [6] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2021/05#Over_3,000,000_usages_of_taxon_name_(P225)
• [7] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9501
• [8] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9503
• [9] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9516
• [10] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9532
• [11] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9552
• [12] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9576
• [13] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9580
• [14] https://w.wiki/3Kuh
• [15] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9590
• [16] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9595
• [17] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9596
• [18] https://w.wiki/3MZJ
• [19] https://w.wiki/3NMQ
• [20] https://w.wiki/3NQN
• [21] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9608

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Help with translation

Hello Zblace, I am User:T Cells from the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos campaign. I'd like to thank you for your translation support in the 2020 edition. The campaign was a huge success and that would not have been possible without your support. The Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2021 starts on the 1st of July and we need your help with the translation of the campaign page and the central banner text.

Direct translation link of CentralNotice banner:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=Centralnotice-tgroup-WPWP2021&language=en&action=page&filter=

Direct translation link of WPWP main page

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Wikipedia+Pages+Wanting+Photos+2021&language=en&action=page&filter=

As always, thanks for your help. T Cells^Talk 11:47, 11 June 2021 (UTC)

This Month in Education: June 2021

This Month in Education Volume 10 • Issue 6 • June 2021 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issue Can children write articles for a wiki encyclopedia? Editing contest "Biosphere reserves in the world" Training & workshop on Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons with students from Municipal Learning Center, Gurrakoc Wiki for Human Rights Campaign in the Philippines Wikipedia makes children and teachers happy! Workshop with the students of Language Faculty of Philology, University of Prishtina "Hasan Prishtina"

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Scope and continuing discussion

Hey Zblace. Thank you for your concerns as they relate to the usage of Talk:Croatian Wikipedia Disinformation Assessment-2021 for discussion. After my note on scope, it seems the vast majority of discussion is centered on the Disinformation Assessment itself, which is optimal. If it wasn't, I might have considered leaving another note, but please remember that the point of talk pages are to discuss. If discussion strays a bit from the main page's topic, it may be a good idea to move it elsewhere (especially if it seeks to gain consensus for something, like a proposal, which would necessitate a proper RfC location and notices). And yes, you are correct in that Meta is not strictly organized; most pages are scattered across mainspace or Meta-space, and though there are large category/subpage networks that make navigation easier, there are no central guidelines for linking all pages to one index. However, when it comes to discussions that intend to result in Meta or global consensus, like RfCs or consultations, those are strictly organized and even listed on the main page. Reorganizing Meta-Wiki would be a very significant task that may be looked into someday, but I do not think criticizing Meta-Wiki as a whole is reasonable for not having active administrators strictly critiquing the scope of content on a Foundation assessment talk page. Vermont (talk) 16:19, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

I hope you do not mind me answering in-line as you do write lenghty and not necessairly anything polemical and worth discussing IMHO. Thank you for aknowledging that I am correct about some things. We obviously and easily disagree on judging what is adequate for Meta or elsewhere, but unlike you I think more than one position is valid and reasonable to be voiced even when critical. That is just my non-anglosaxon culture in which things are more explicit and critique can be absorbed. Lets keep it at unresolvable differences. --Zblace (talk) 19:10, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

As I noted I do work a full-time job, and I have been only sporadically active lately because of it, and have not been able to read over and promote constructive discussion to the extent that I would like to. You are completely right; people who come back after three or four days to a discussion to find another multiple thousand words to read are greatly disadvantaged compared to those who followed it along throughout. And people who do not speak English fluently, the primary language of discussion on Meta-Wiki, are greatly disadvantaged compared to those who can easily understand the content, nuance, and peculiar phrases of English-language discussion. Vermont (talk) 16:19, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Thank you. --Zblace (talk) 19:10, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Regarding that which you refer to as "personal accusations", those are not accusations, those are statements of fact. Up until this point I had not fully described the situation to anyone other than other admins and checkusers. Now I believe I am obligated to do so. Vermont (talk) 16:19, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

I am sorry this added to your workload, but I was not interested in discussing this on a talk page bewteen two of us as relation has jaded and your perspective is limited to your immediate interests of 'good-governance' in rigid interpretation of what/when/how/where Admininstrator-Sysop-Checkuser should act. --Zblace (talk) 19:10, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

As I understand it, back in early February of this year you wanted to see how the Simple English Wikipedia handled LGBT content, supposedly both for a then-upcoming meeting with T&S and for a possible translation drive. Your idea to test this was to create User:QueerSport (since renamed to QueerSEE) to create simple:QueerSportSplit. The username is a violation of username guidelines, and your new account was blocked on the English Wikipedia for it. It took a few days for your account to be blocked for the same reason on the Simple English Wikipedia. Vermont (talk) 16:19, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

True I was not aware of that rule and was also not objecting to it much once I realized how rigid it is. --Zblace (talk) 19:10, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

In that few day period, the article you created was nominated for deletion due to its questionable notability. Your responses were immediately hostile and nearly all of your replies to editors in that RfD included personal attacks or blatant insults. Vermont (talk) 16:19, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

That is neither the Truth, nor the whole truth and nothing but the truth...you fail to see havoc raised by the user who went across multiple Wikipedia, Commons and Wikidata projects acusing me of cross-wiki spam. Statements (and actions) that was later retracted, but was never apologized for and Simple and EN admins never aknowledged. Unlike on other projects. That was tolareted and no panelty or warning was given to that user + troll that was following *(that was blocked already on 6 Wikis, and that later took pride in taking me down with him into status of banned on Simple). --Zblace (talk) 19:10, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

At this point, for some reason, you thought it to be a good idea to email me trying to explain the situation. In this email, you made it clear that your intention was basically to run a experiment. These are your words:

"My intention was to test a bit how Simple Wikipedia could be used instead of EN Wikipedia for translation across different CEE Wikipedia instances (mostly curious how hard is notability for queer and regional content from South East Europe I plan for the upcoming CEE Spring 2021 translations)."

You also said, in the same email:

"I know it is not conventional way to prove something is problematic but I acted hastily after midnight as I wanted to have a proof for meeting with the Trust and Safety team..."

Later, you wrote this on the talk page of the account you made for this experiment:

"This account was briefly used on Simple Wikipedia for the research purpose."

Considering the above, I believe "social experiment" is an accurate description of your initial intentions. Vermont (talk) 16:19, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

No. If you check Wikipedia for what is 'social experiment' it is not a random combination of test and research. Aside from that using the wording 'socila experiment' sounds very manipulative, while I did nothing of sort, but started building a page entries for queer content from CEE region across projects. I had no control group or was in any way being in control of conditions. If anyone it was you who could stop, pause or escalation of provocations and conflict, but you kept silent and only mentioned it once you decided to block me. Which I do not mind that much as Simple Wikipedia was disapointing and that is OK. I would have stopped using it anyway. I just did not listen to advices of people not to invest efforts there. --Zblace (talk) 19:10, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Soon after, your new account was blocked as a username violation by another administrator. You then joined the RfD discussion on your main account (User:Zblace), continuing the personal attacks and insults against editors who disagree with you. Multiple editors asked you to stop engaging in these personal attacks and insults, including myself, and you blatantly ignored those warnings. (On a side note, the RfD was closed as keep and another editor in the RfD, one you were at odds with, was blocked for incivility on their part as well) Vermont (talk) 16:19, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

It is funny that you call this person an editor (did you even see his pervious work and toxic behaviour all the way)...if you were to act on this after reading when and how he was responding I would maybe be less upset by how Simple functions, but no you only did it post-festum, when it was irrelevant for all and I already wasted few nights of good sleep over the supression of content and provocations made. --Zblace (talk) 19:10, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

I imposed a block on your account for incivility and personal attacks, leaving a note in the block summary for other admins to consult the CU team before considering appeal, as it does involve a sockpuppet of yours. Your responses to my block notice on your talk page are too convoluted for me to attempt to properly summarize here, so here's a link. Among other things, you accused me of "Anglo-centrism", attempted to pass off your conduct as deciding the Simple English Wikipedia has a bad "atmosphere", and claimed the project was not welcoming enough. To clarify, as at the time I did not respond: You are completely correct, we are not welcoming to people who engage in personal attacks and incivility.

Vermont (talk) 16:19, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Whatever. You are amazing bunch...I am wrong from acusing you of being predominantly monolingual anglophones. We agree to disagree. --Zblace (talk) 19:10, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

After the short discussion on your talk page had settled, you placed the following sentence at the top of the page:

"EXPECTING MARGINALIZED PEOPLES TO DISREGARD THEIR OWN EMOTIONS TO CALMLY EDUCATE YOU IS THE EPITOME OF ENTITLEMENT."

Again, to clarify: You were not blocked because you are part of a marginalized group. (the same marginalized group I am also a part of) You were blocked because your conduct was completely unacceptable and would have resulted in a block on any project with any semblance of a civility policy. Using your identity groups to attempt to whitewash your conduct is incredibly offensive to people who are actually subject to such discrimination. Vermont (talk) 16:19, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

I think there i sno point in arguing this with you as we basically disagree in complexity of what happened and what is adequate. I am happy never to touch Simple (until it maybe becomes what it claimed to be), so we should be both well off keeping distance. --Zblace (talk) 19:10, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

I believe this is an accurate summary of events leading up to and shortly after your block. When you described my comment on the Disinformation Assessment talk page relating to your past issues as "in-correct" and "not-documented", it seemed necessary to write a proper summary that people can read to understand the issues involved. Apologies for the length, I did not want to give a partial summary.

Regards, Vermont (talk) 16:19, 24 June 2021 (UTC) Vermont (talk) 16:19, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Even with this lenght you omitted order and time of your (in)action as well as what was happening on other projects over related content + mentioning any other user names. Painting me conflictual and problematic in (your) understanding of black-and-white norms is for sure something I will always opose as a simplification that comes from the central place of power and priviledge *(regardless of ones sexual practices/identities) as this is a matter of cultural, social and communication norms for which you think should be calibrated to your pitch. I really hope you do not move into more projects and insist on your understanding of 'civility' as the cetral, if not only and ultimate norm.

BTW, just to let you know in LGBT+ UG you do not have impecable reputation from way before interacting with me, it is just that others are 'civil' to not raise that.

Regards, --Zblace (talk) 19:10, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

Hey Zblace. I have a relatively short response to your comments above.

This is indeed relative. --Zblace (talk) 11:44, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

I had a very positive opinion of you, and even considered you a colleague/friend, before the incident on that RfD.

This is also part of the problem. You have narrow attention focus (on incident) and limited interest in wider context (basically, RfD only)...you fail to realize that my effort and work is a cross-wiki, cross-cultural and my frustration with you as authority is that you ignored incidents that other users were making for me before and during this RfD. But that is your priviledge of following the 'by the book' rules and remaining ignorant of effects of their actions of at least 5 other wikis (among which are super complex and sensitive ones like HR and SH Wikipedia). --Zblace (talk) 11:44, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

I'm hoping you remember our positive and productive email conversations prior to that incident; you even contacted me directly about the RfD issue, and before I saw what you had written there about other contributors I had every intention of helping you.

I have no idea how was I to get that you were to help me? You never said anything. Including objections to my 'hasty' experiments...or maybe you think help is something you give after things are obvious? Pardon me for sounding cynical, but it is hard not to be now, as I feel this leans to patronizing, rather than collegial/friendly input you reference above. --Zblace (talk) 11:44, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

However, after revieiwng your conduct, which involved numerous personal attacks and outright hostile statements, including but not limited to accusing editors (multiple of whom happen to be LGBT+) of being homophobic, calling people "inadequate", referring to another editor as "hysterical", describing those who disagreed with you as "voices of suppression", directly stating that Simple English Wikipedia editors are fascists and colluding with fascists, and other issues, there was no other option but to place a block on your account.

I will not comment on generic interpretation and description of my own words, nor about WHEN and HOW you finally took action, as I thing both leave a lot to desire for to be considered well done work. You did next to nothing to remove or even warn people who did problematic actions and inputs across projects and also somewhat on that RfD. In that respect you acted not as well intended custodian, but a meer policing authority. --Zblace (talk) 11:44, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

We have a civility policy on the Simple English Wikipedia and we (yes, the block was not only my idea) enforce it. My attempt with the above decriptions of your conduct was not to argue about what happened, but to state the chronological order of events leading up to your block. Your responses to me here do include some rather unkind and untrue statements (namely, accusing me of, as a result of me supposedly being anglo-saxon, being unable to view other sides of an argument. Again, I'm an Ashkenazi Jew, and regardless you cannot base an argument purely off another person's race.) involving assumptions and subsequent insinuations about my race, which is uncivil and offensive to an extreme degree, but I do not want this to be a further issue.

Again I will not comment on what is not linked to exact cite, since it is your interpretation. If you feel I was discussing sexual orientation or race, you are totally wrong. I was discussing only queer as non-normative and anglo-saxon communication culture *(neither is dependent on your actual geneology or behavioral characteristics). Again this was your narrow interpretation of identity politics to which I do not subscribe. --Zblace (talk) 11:44, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

I want us to return to communicating productively and positively, as that would be most beneficial for continued constructive contributing on issues of joint interest.

You are welcome to communicate as you wish and (ab)use your authority as you wish. I have little motivation to spend even more time discussing this directly with you without moderator and other people that have broader interests and deeper incentives to research and understand than just make vague remarks of 'civility'.

You Admin collective on Simple thinks I am problematic and that was the way to handle the situation. I think that Simple is problematic project and would no longer contribute until it is questioned and restored with its initial focus on non-native speakers and would de-center monolingual English natives. --Zblace (talk) 11:44, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

And I do not like having my only contact with people being in an administrative, conduct-related capacity. A common saying is prevalent across some projects: focus on content, not contributors.

I am sure that worked well to old-school pragmatics to create many of Wikis till know, but I am really into people-centeredness and this is where our perspectives are radically different. --Zblace (talk) 11:44, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

That's a sure way to avoid personal attacks.

I know almost nothing of you. All of my comments were to your (non)actions when performing power. You offered zero advice or assistance in your non-admin role. --Zblace (talk) 11:44, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

I want to work with you on this, and return to the point in our personal discourse where we could freely discuss issues of joint interest without the overbearing presence of insinuations of ulterior motives or personal attacks. I hope you agree with these intentions. Best, Vermont (talk) 02:33, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

As stated before...I can not deal with this 1:1 as I feel like I am supposed to educate you at the cost of my emotional and intelectual labor, while you are both casual and in power and I am marked with a reference of a ban in a the Wiki you are responsible for. If there is capasity in WMF's Community Ressilaince team to deal with this I will do it, but not on my talk page and under your terms.

By the way I am also to move this to your page as I failed to answer in the classical way. --Zblace (talk) 11:44, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - June 2021 Newsletter

This is our nineteenth newsletter, covering June 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 5, 8, 10, 13, 15, 16 and 17.

Meetings

• Online user group meeting July 4 (SDG all) [1]
• Online user group meeting July 18 (SDG all) [1]

Activities

• Ongoing: Wiki Loves Earth (SDG 15) [2]
• Ongoing: Join the "Wiki editatón por el conocimiento climático" organized by Alianza Clima y Desarrollo y la Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano [13]
• Past: A Wealth of Wiki Women (SDG 5) [5]
• Past: Czech WikiGap 2021 report (SDG 5) [6]
• Past: 50Y Swiss Women's Suffrage: Edit-a-thon at Historical Museum Lucerne & WikiGap (SDG 5) [7]
• Past: The Met, Smithsonian, and a busy Edit-a-thon season (SDG 3, 5, 13) [8]
• Past: Wiki for Human Rights Campaign in the Philippines (SDG 10, 13) [9]

News

• 100 Years of Environment and Climate Change Canada Weather Data in Commons (SDG 13) [3]
• #WikiForHumanRights 2021: Insights from the Macedonian Wikipedia (SDG 3, 10, 15) [4]
• Malpractice Podcast Ep #2.9: Coffee Talks with Wikimedian Lane Rasberry (SDG 3) [10]
• Brazil’s Laws: Modeling the Brazilian legislation in Wikidata (SDG 16) [14]

Resources

• Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) has now translated and published its guide "How to contribute climate change information to Wikipedia" in Spanish. Check out the resource: "¿Cómo contribuir información sobre cambio climático a la Wikipedia?" [12]

Research

• Ms. Categorized: Gender, notability, and inequality on Wikipedia (SDG 5) [11]
• Wikidata Projects in Times of COVID-19: IUPUI Libraries’ Engagement in Open Knowledge (SDG 3) [15]

Videos

• Global Open Initiative Foundation editing session - Adding statements about Ghanaian Members of Parliament using OpenRefine (SDG 16) [22]

New Wikidata properties

• OpenCorporates register jurisdiction (SDG 8) [16]
• electronic Essential Medicines List medicine ID (SDG 3) [17]
• Romanian diplomatic mission ID (SDG 17) [18]
• Foreign diplomatic mission in Romania ID (SDG 17) [19]
• Dutch Caribbean Species Register ID (SDG 15) [20]
• Burke Herbarium Image Collection ID (SDG 15) [21]
• consequence of text (SDG 16) [23]
• Companies Registration Office (Ireland) Registration Number (SDG 8) [24]

Links

• [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
• [2] http://wikilovesearth.org/
• [3] https://www.wikimedia.ca/2021/05/31/100-years-of-environment-and-climate-change-canada-weather-data-in-commons/
• [4] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/06/05/wikiforhumanrights-2021-insights-from-the-macedonian-wikipedia/
• [5] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2021/Contents/Australia_report
• [6] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2021/Contents/Czech_Republic_report
• [7] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2021/Contents/Switzerland_report
• [8] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2021/Contents/USA_report
• [9] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/June_2021/Wiki_for_Human_Rights_Campaign_in_the_Philippines
• [10] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar6KyZqghKk
• [11] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448211023772
• [12] https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?e=test_email&u=17ab3d1a27c55e8201f8fb44c&id=3374a0f6b9
• [13] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Encuentros/Wiki_editat%C3%B3n_por_el_conocimiento_clim%C3%A1tico
• [14] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/06/04/brazilian-laws-modeling-the-brazilian-legislation-in-wikidata/
• [15] https://www.infodocket.com/2021/06/06/article-wikidata-projects-in-times-of-covid-19-iupui-libraries-engagement-in-open-knowledge/
• [16] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9630
• [17] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9635
• [18] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9638
• [19] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9639
• [20] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9649
• [21] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9654
• [22] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50GBWVUCsO8
• [23] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9680
• [24] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9679

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Predicted Wikimedia Foundation organizational chart

Where should this upgraded .svg be posted to request translation? TryFor4 (talk) 23:45, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi TryFor4! I am not sure if there is a specific context todo so, but here is a the link on how it was done well for one WD file https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Wikidata_nodes_in_white.svg#Translations --Zblace (talk) 03:31, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

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Sunday July 25 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

The swan or the egg?

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.

Following up on the August, September, October, November, January, February, March, April, and June SWAN meetings, as well as last June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Movement Charter + Drafting Committee, WMF Board elections, Wikimania 2021, and Grants Regional Committees.

This month we are meeting on Sunday July 25, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

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Wednesday July 28: Wikispore Day Unconference

Wikispore Day 0, the picnic that partially inspired Wikispore.

Wikispore Day 1, last year

The second anniversary of Wikispore Day, observed on July 28, 2020, marks twenty-four months from the conceptual sprouting of the Wikispore idea from the Strategy Wiknic in NYC, which was held on July 14, 2019.

You are invited to participate in a virtual unconference for this year!

Wednesday July 28:

• Main Unconference (more details at wikispore:Wikispore Day)

• 12:00–2:00 pm (New York City time)
• (16:00–18:00 UTC/GMT, 18:00–20:00 Berlin)

• Social Hour

• 6:00-7:00 (New York City time)

Since Wikispore is probably the only Wikimedia project to be born at a picnic, you are encouraged to participate from a socially-distanced green space outdooors if possible.

• Register on Eventbrite
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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - July 2021 Newsletter

This is our twentieth newsletter, covering July 2021. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 4, 5, 11, 14, 15 and 16.

Meetings

• Online user group meeting August 1 (SDG all) [1]
• Online user group meeting August 15 (SDG all) [1]
• Past: Online user group meeting July 4 (SDG all) [7]

Wikimania

• During Wikimania there are a number of sessions related to our user group. We have started a page in the community village to list all the talks, please help add them if you are giving talks or spot sessions in the program. (SDG all) [6]

Activities

• Organize Wiki Loves Monuments in 2021 (SDG 11) [26]
• Past: Vaccine Safety Edit-a-thon (SDG 3) [5]

News

• Who Gets To Be Notable And Who Doesn't: Gender Bias On Wiki (SDG 5) [27]

Resources

• Gender diversity in articles about academic disciplines in the French wikipedia (SDG 5) [18]

Research

• Meta-Research: Citation needed? Wikipedia and the COVID-19 pandemic (SDG 3) [28]
• Covid-on-the-Web: Knowledge Graph and Services to Advance COVID-19 Research book (SDG 3) [29]
• Unveiling the veiled: Wikipedia collaborating with academic libraries in Africa in creating visibility for African women through Art+Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon (SDG 5) [30]

Videos

• Wikipedia Weekly Network - Live editing Wikipedia: Biodiversity edition #4 (SDG 15) [2],[3]
• Editing Wikidata items about Ghanaian parliamentarians (SDG 16) [8]

New WikiProjects

• Wikidata:Gov Directory (SDG 16) [4]

New Wikidata properties

• voted on by (SDG 16) [9]
• delta of (SDG 14) [10]
• Idaho Species ID (SDG 15) [11]
• Montana Field Guide species ID (SDG 15) [12]
• E-Fauna BC species ID (SDG 15) [13]
• E-Flora BC species ID (SDG 15) [14]
• Buzer.de law identification (SDG 16) [15]
• taxon range (SDG 15) [17]
• URL for citizen's initiatives (SDG 16) [19]
• number of request signatories (SDG 16) [20]
• CEICE school code (SDG 4) [21]

New Wikidata query examples

• Scientific and Commons names of animals which are threatened as per IUCN Red List (SDG 15) [16]
• Comparing gender statistics about people cited in an article across several articles (SDG 5) [22]
• Swedish Supreme Court judges who citing reports by commissions they themselves took part in (SDG 16) [23]
• Map public organizations that allow one to fill citizen's initiatives online (SDG 16) [24]
• Number of causes of death (P509) 2019-2021 separated by year so that a comparison of the causes of death before and during the pandemic can also be seen (SDG 3) [25]

Links

• [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
• [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPqjs4PwrJk
• [3] https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediaweekly/permalink/4037199796327821/
• [4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Gov_Directory
• [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Vaccine_Safety_Wikipedia_Edit-a-thon_June_12,_2021
• [6] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Community_Village/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development
• [7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meeting_minutes_20210704
• [8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eRbrmDlTr0
• [9] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9681
• [10] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9700
• [11] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9684
• [12] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9685
• [13] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9690
• [14] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9691
• [15] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9696
• [16] https://w.wiki/3b4k
• [17] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9714
• [18] https://public-paws.wmcloud.org/User:PAC2/Gender%20diversity%20in%20academic%20disciplines%20in%20the%20French%20wikipedia.ipynb
• [19] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9732
• [20] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9740
• [21] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9746
• [22] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:PAC2/Measuring_gender_diversity
• [23] https://w.wiki/3eFe
• [24] https://w.wiki/3dvP
• [25] https://w.wiki/3dT6
• [26] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/07/04/organize-wiki-loves-monuments-in-2021/
• [27] https://www.npr.org/2021/07/13/1015754856/who-gets-to-be-notable-and-who-doesnt-gender-bias-on-wiki
• [28] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.01.433379v1
• [29] https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02939363
• [30] https://doi.org/10.1108/DLP-08-2020-0079

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This Month in Education: July 2021

This Month in Education Volume 10 • Issue 7 • July 2021 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issue University celebrates 10th anniversary with an Editathon A paper on Students' Attitudes Towards the Use of Wikipedia Announcing the Training of Trainers program for "Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom" MOOC Conocimiento Abierto y Software Libre Updates on the Leamos Wikipedia en Bolivia 2021 Virtual lessons on Wikipedia from Wikimedia Polska for schools

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Wikisporadic Newsletter: August 2021

Wikisporadic, an Occasional Newsletter for our Germinating Community.

• The Wikipore Day Unconference was held in July, with about 20 participants - see etherpad. A suggested path forward is the "movement tactic" of regular collaborations, like a Spore of the Month or a Feature of the Fortnight.
• Some newer proposed projects at Wikispore: STARDIT (using mw:Extension:Cargo), Works Spore, WikiCite. (Comment on their talk pages!)
• On Saturday August 14, there will be a Wikimania lightning talk on Wikispore and Innovating Free Knowledge at 18:10 - 18:20 UTC, followed a few minutes later by an unconference group session for Wikimedians Innovating New Genres.

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Feedback on any of these items is welcomed at your friendly Wikispore Greenhouse!

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Nationalist conflicts between Wikipedia editions

Thanks for the discussion at Wikimania just now. Let's continue the discussion. I think the Universal Code of Conduct consultation sessions will be quite relevant wikimania:2021:Submissions/Universal_Code_of_Conduct_Roundtable. There are also some notes on my session discussion page. Feel free to pick up the discussion there: wikimania:2021 talk:Submissions/Cross-wiki ideological conflict and Wikimedia's vision of knowledge equity --Deryck C. 21:32, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

This Month in Education: August 2021

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• News from Wiki Education: Changing the face of Wikipedia

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• WikiProject report: WikiProject Days of the Year Interview

• Traffic report: Olympics, movies, and Afghanistan

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Unblock request

Unblock request granted This blocked user asked to be unblocked, and one or more administrators has reviewed and granted this request. Request reason: Hi! It seems that my account here was blocked on August 26th with Block ID is #457088, and from the conversation with stewards Martin Urbanec and Tks4Fish it seems to have been a result of me doing IP editing while being under a global lock - for which I was informed later by Martin Urbanec is not allowed. As I never got instructions on what is allowed or not and I did not do any destructive or controversial editing I would ask for a revision of this and unlocking of my account here. Thank you Unblock reason: I fail to see how you could interpret a lock on your account to mean that you should then edit logged out, especially after you were explicitly told about block evasion being against policy through off-wiki channels multiple times prior to the multiple instances of you evading your lock. Regardless, as you have agreed to a one-account restriction, so long as you do not violate that I see no reason to continue keeping your main account blocked as a CU-block. As, considering past confusion, it may not be clear: this means no IP editing, no creating other accounts, no editing with someone else's account, no editing with or creating role accounts, no requesting grants with other accounts, and no editing at all with any IP address, or account other than this one. In line with that, your other accounts will not be unblocked. Best regards, Vermont (talk) 13:33, 15 September 2021 (UTC) This template should be archived normally. English | español | français | italiano | 日本語 | 한국어 | Plattdüütsch | Nederlands | 中文 | edit

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Sunday September 26 SWANniversary Party and All-Affiliates Strategic Meeting

Celebrate our first anniversary with SWAN-shaped desserts!

Join the SWANniversary on September 26 as we mark the first year of the Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network!

We will have the regular All-Affiliates Strategic Meeting, to be followed by a SWANniversary Party in the after hours session, likely through spatialized chat on WorkAdventure.

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.

Following up on the August, September, October, November, January, February, March, April, June, and July SWAN meetings, as well as last June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, we'll look together at strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Movement Charter + Drafting Committee, WMF Board elections, Wikimania 2021, and Grants Regional Committees.

This month we are meeting on Sunday September 26, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC.)--Pharos (talk) 18:16, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

This Month in Education: September 2021

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• Opinion: Wikimedians of Mainland China were warned

• Op-Ed: I've been desysopped

• Disinformation report: Paid promotional paragraphs in German parliamentary pages

• Discussion report: Editors discuss Wikipedia's vetting process for administrators

• Recent research: Wikipedia images for machine learning; Experiment justifies Wikipedia's high search rankings

• Community view: Is writing Wikipedia like making a quilt?

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• WikiProject report: The Random and the Beautiful

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This Month in Education Volume 10 • Issue 10 • October 2021 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issue 1st joint contest Wikimedia UG Georgia and the Ministry of Education of Georgia Promoting more inclusive and equitable support for the Wikimedia Education community The Second Online EduWiki Camp in Serbia Higher and further education courses in the UK Wikipedia on Silesia Cieszyn in Poland and in Czech Republic

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Sunday October 31 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

A swan reflects.

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.

Following up on the August, September, October, November, January, February, March, April, and June, July, and September SWAN meetings, as well as last June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Movement Charter Drafting Committee Set Up Process, Next Steps for Brand Work, 2021, Wikipedia Asian Month 2021, and other ongoing activities.

This month we are meeting on Sunday October 31, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:30 UTC – *Note that we have shifted the second call a half-hour later in UTC time due to WikidataCon*.)--Pharos (talk) 01:48, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 October 2021

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• From the editor: Different stories, same place

• News and notes: The sockpuppet who ran for adminship and almost succeeded

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• Opinion: A photo on Wikipedia can ruin your life

• Discussion report: Editors brainstorm and propose changes to the Requests for adminship process

• Recent research: Welcome messages fail to improve newbie retention

• Community view: Reflections on the Chinese Wikipedia

• Traffic report: James Bond and the Giant Squid Game

• Technology report: Wikimedia Toolhub, winners of the Coolest Tool Award, and more

• Serendipity: How Wikipedia helped create a Serbian stamp

• Book review: Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality

• WikiProject report: Redirection

• Humour: A very Wiki crossword

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Translations - thanks / request

Thank you for your translation of MCDC voter message.

The results announcement is available: Movement Charter/Drafting Committee/Elections/Results/Announcement.

I would like to also deliver in local languages, if you have time to provide a translation.

Thank you, Xeno (WMF) (talk) 15:05, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

Sure. I did a quick translation in consistency with previous. Hopefully it is clear and understandable to people interested. -- Zblace (talk) 19:39, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

Much appreciated, the message is sent =) Xeno (WMF) (talk) 00:38, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

This Month in Education: November 2021

This Month in Education Volume 10 • Issue 11 • November 2021 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issue We talked about EduWiki Outreach Collaborators and how Wikimedia Serbia played a role being a part of it Welcome to Meta! Wikipedia Education Program in Ukraine in 2021 Wikipedia and Education Mentorship Program-Serbia and Philippines Partnership Launch of the Wikimedia Research Fund! Education projects in the Land of Valencia A Hatch-Tyap-Wikipedia In-person Training Event Celebrating Sq Wikipedia Birthday with the Vasil Kamami High School students Celebrating Wikidata with the Nikola Koperniku High School students

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This Month in Education Volume 10 • Issue 11 • November 2021 Contents • Headlines • Subscribe In This Issue We talked about EduWiki Outreach Collaborators and how Wikimedia Serbia played a role being a part of it Welcome to Meta! Wikipedia Education Program in Ukraine in 2021 Wikipedia and Education Mentorship Program-Serbia and Philippines Partnership Launch of the Wikimedia Research Fund! Education projects in the Land of Valencia A Hatch-Tyap-Wikipedia In-person Training Event Celebrating Sq Wikipedia Birthday with the Vasil Kamami High School students Celebrating Wikidata with the Nikola Koperniku High School students

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Sunday November 28 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Chart a new course on the swan ferry.

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 Hubs+Hubs Workshop, Movement Charter+Drafting Committee, WMDE's 'Future of Wikimedia Governance' proposal, Wikipedia Asian Month 2021, and other ongoing activities.

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

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC, note that some areas recently experienced daylight savings time changes).--Pharos (talk) 16:06, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 November 2021

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• In the media: Denial: climate change, mass killings and pornography
• WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2021
• Deletion report: What we lost, what we gained
• From a Wikipedia reader: What's Matt Amodio?
• Arbitration report: ArbCom in 2021
• Discussion report: On the brink of change – RFA reforms appear imminent
• Technology report: What does it take to upload a file?
• WikiProject report: Interview with contributors to WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers
• Serendipity: "Did You Know ..." featured a photo of the wrong female WWII pilot
• News from Diff: Content translation tool helps create one million Wikipedia articles
• Traffic report: Reporting ticket sales on the edge of the Wiki, if Eternals should fail
• Recent research: Vandalizing Wikipedia as rational behavior
• Humour: A very new very Wiki crossword

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Grants talk:Project/Rapid/Wiki Rainbow Health in Croatia

Hello Z. I have removed some of your comments from the Grants talk page on the basis of violating our behavioral guidelines for discussions regarding funding. I understand there are concerns around admin conduct on hr.wikipedia. The claims you are making about admins on hr.wikipedia are both sensitive and significant, but cannot be meaningfully evaluated by the Community Resources team. These concerns need to be resolved within your community or reported directly to Trust & Safety if you have not done so already. I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 20:24, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

No problem. Thrust and Safety team is informed of most if not all and so are HR admins. Also I am happy to share more details when and where this is useful, but unfortunatly there seems to be no quick and simple solution as it is either outside of scope of T&S or capacities of HR. Until UCoC has inplementation guidlines it is a bit of unresolvable situation. --Zblace (talk) 20:32, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

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• Serendipity: Born three months before her brother?

• In the media: The past is not even past

• Recent research: STEM articles judged unsuitable for undergraduates below the first paragraph

• Arbitration report: A new crew for '22

• By the numbers: Four billion words and a few numbers

• Deletion report: We laughed, we cried, we closed as "no consensus"

• Gallery: Wikicommons presents: 2021

• Traffic report: Spider-Man, football and the departed

• Crossword: Another Wiki crossword for one and all

• Humour: Buying Wikipedia

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This Month in Education: January 2022

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• 30-h Wikipedia Article Writing Challenge
• Announcing Wiki Workshop 2022
• Final exhibition about Cieszyn Silesia region
• Join us this February for the EduWiki Week
• Offline Education project WikiChallenge closed its third edition
• Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom ToT Experience of a Filipina Wikimedian
• Welcoming new trainers of the Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom program
• Wikimedia Israel’s education program: Students enrich Hebrew Wiktionary with Biblical expressions still in use in modern Hebrew

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• Special report: WikiEd course leads to Twitter harassment
• News and notes: Feedback for Board of Trustees election
• Interview: CEO Maryana Iskander "four weeks in"
• Black History Month: What are you doing for Black History Month?
• Deletion report: Ringing in the new year: Subject notability guideline under discussion
• WikiProject report: The Forgotten Featured
• Arbitration report: New arbitrators look at new case and antediluvian sanctions
• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2021
• Gallery: No Spanish municipality without a photograph
• Obituary: Twofingered Typist
• Op-Ed: Identifying and rooting out climate change denial
• Essay: The prime directive
• Opinion: Should the Wikimedia Foundation continue to accept cryptocurrency donations?
• In the media: Fuzzy-headed government editing
• Recent research: Articles with higher quality ratings have fewer "knowledge gaps"
• Serendipity: Pooh entered the Public Domain – but Tigger has to wait two more years
• Crossword: Cross swords with a crossword

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Leadership Development Task Force: Your feedback is appreciated!

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I hope you are well!

The Community Development team at the Wikimedia Foundation is supporting the creation of a global, community-driven Leadership Development Task Force. The purpose of the task force is to advise leadership development work.

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Sunday February 27 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

To dance is to fly.

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 Hubs+Dialogue, Movement Charter, Universal Code of Conduct+Enforcement Voting, Brand, International Women's Day+Gender Gap and WikiForHumanRights campaigns, and other ongoing activities.

This month we are meeting on Sunday February 27, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC).----Pharos (talk) 03:17, 24 February 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 February 2022

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the team: Selection of a new Signpost Editor-in-Chief

• News and notes: Impacts of Russian invasion of Ukraine

• Opinion: Why student editors are good for Wikipedia

• Special report: A presidential candidate's team takes on Wikipedia

• In the media: Wiki-drama in the UK House of Commons

• Serendipity: War photographers: from Crimea (1850s) to the Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022)

• Technology report: Community Wishlist Survey results

• WikiProject report: 10 years of tea

• Featured content: Featured Content returns

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• Recent research: How editors and readers may be emotionally affected by disasters and terrorist attacks

• Arbitration report: Parties remonstrate, arbs contemplate, skeptics coordinate

• By the numbers: Does birthplace affect the frequency of Wikipedia biography articles?

• Gallery: The vintage exhibit

• Traffic report: Euphoria, Pamela Anderson, lies and Netflix

• News from Diff: The Wikimania 2022 Core Organizing Team

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• Integrating Wikipedia in the academic curriculum in a university in Mexico
• Results of "Reading Wikipedia" workshop in the summer school of Plan Ceibal in Uruguay
• WikiFundi, offline editing plateform : last release notes and how-tos
• Writing Wikipedia as an academic assignment in STEM fields
• The Learning and Connection – 1Lib1Ref with African Librarians

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• Arte+Feminismo Pilipinas:Advocacy on Women Empowerment
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• Call for Participation: Higher Education Survey
• Collection of Good Practices in Wikipedia Education
• Conversation: Open education in the Wikimedia Movement views from Latin America
• EduWiki Week 2022, celebrations and learnings
• EduWiki Week in Armenia
• Open Education Week at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
• Wikipedia + Education Talk With Leonard Hagan
• Wikimedia Israel cooperates with Yad Vashem in developing a training course for teachers

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• From the team: We stand in solidarity with Ukraine

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• Eyewitness Wikimedian – Kharkiv, Ukraine: Countering Russian aggression with a camera

• Eyewitness Wikimedian – Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary

• Eyewitness Wikimedian – Western Ukraine: Working with Wikipedia helps

• Disinformation report: The oligarchs' socks

• In the media: Ukraine, Russia, and even some other stuff

• Recent research: Top scholarly citers, lack of open access references, predicting editor departures

• Wikimedian perspective: My heroes from Russia, Ukraine & beyond

• Discussion report: Athletes are less notable now

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Sunday April 3 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Bots in precious metals are part of our community too.

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 UCoC Voting, Hubs Global Conversation held + CEE Hub update, Movement Charter + Leadership Development Working Group, Desktop Improvements, Celebrate Women in March + International Women's Day, Wikimania 2022 survey concluded + Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 May 20-22 + local events, and other ongoing activities.

This month we are meeting on Sunday April 3, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC, note that some areas recently experienced daylight savings time changes).--Pharos (talk) 12:45, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

Campaigns Product Team Office Hour - March 31, 2022

Thank you for signing up for the Campaigns Product Team Office Hour.

In this meeting, we will introduce a new version of the desktop wireframes, the first version of the mobile wireframes and the possibility of creating new namespaces for the first feature of the Event Center, the Event Registration Tool. The Campaigns Product Team will also be providing community updates on the usability test findings, current project timeline and answer any questions you may have.

Date: March 31, 2022

Time: 15:00 UTC

Zoom Link: https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/82046580320

We are excited to hear your thoughts on these developments! You may also watch Campaigns Office Hour: Introducing the Campaigns Product Team to learn more about the Team and the previous wireframes.

Feel free to send an email to ibrazal-ctr@wikimedia.org if you want to receive a reminder for this meeting.

Thank you.

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Moramo popuniti Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia u roku od 60 dana da ga ne obrišu

Siguran sam da puno toga možemo reći o ovoj Wikipediji, pogotovo kod usporedbe s lokalnim varijantama. Netko ju je nedavno označio kao "useless". Samo javljam, lijep pozdrav. :-) -Vipz (talk) 08:44, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

@Vipz dopisao sam nešto. Nisam baš entuzijast za ovakav rad pod (nepotrebnim) pritiskom. --Zblace (talk) 08:42, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

Nema frke. Evo ja sam upravo dodao sadržaja. Jedina stvar s kojom se ne slažem je zvati ga "makrojezik", što jest u ISO kodu, ali nije u sociolingvistici gdje je "pluricentrični jezik". Također, zasad preferiram SH naspram BHS, jer potonji stoji za taj "makrojezik" i još uvijek ne inkluzivira crnogorski. Najčešći naziv za jezik nam je srpskohrvatski, a taj dvodjelni naziv se tako zove jer se prostire od rubova Hrvatske do rubova Srbije. No kako kaže Snježana Kordić, prvo se trebamo složiti da imamo zajednički jezik, a onda ćemo raspravljati o njegovom nazivu. Ja osobno ne govorim makrojezik, već jezik, i više (100%) razumijem štokavski ekavski ("srpski") nego čakavski i kajkavski. Otkad sam naučio kako se okorištavaju s namjernom podijelom (w:Two schools under one roof) i vidio kakve se sve stvari događaju na HRWP, zgrožen sam što sam podržavao tu ideju o zasebnim jezicima... uglavnom, oprostite ako rantam, nadam se da me razumijete. Pozdrav. -Vipz (talk) 11:11, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

@Vipz super. Rantanje nije problem. Nisam jezikoslovac, niti dovoljno nacionalist, pa mi je Makro ili Pluricentrički tj. obje vrste po perspektivama (možda i najbolje uvrstiti oboje) skoro isto. Zanimljivija mi je praksa i življeno iskustvo nego bilo koji standardni jezik koji je institucionalna opresija. IMHO standardi ne bi trebali biti osnova a niti fokus za identitete i dinamike wiki projekata. Porijeklom sam i iz istočne Hercegovine, pa mi smješno slušati prepirke oko jezika koji je strateški tamo ugradio vrlo specifični interes Dubrovačke buržoazije da se podrže i ojačaju Slaveni, dok anti-racionalni interesi sad rade na slabljenju istih. Važnije je da nam je jaka regionalna mafija, nego nedaj bože narod. Sve najbolje. --Zblace (talk) 11:52, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

Your request at my Wikimedia Commons talk page

Dear @Zblace. On 2022-04-15 you asked me at Wikimedia Commons to unlock your talk page on the Croatian Wikipedia, where you're currently blocked from editing. I suggest we continue here. Since the block was issued *because* of the words said on that very page, I am reluctant to go against the will of the complaining administrator(s): first, I would feel responsible for everything you say if the communication problems continue, and second, I may not be impartial because of our previous (on- and off-wiki) collaboration on attracting and keeping new editors on that Wikipedia. Here's my best offer: you post here (in Croatian) whatever apology or request you want posted, I relay it to your hrwiki talk page, and we go on from there. I suggest we all move on (forgive and forget), in the hope that some lessons have been learnt on all sides of the recent conflicts in our shattered community. By communicating politely and respectfully, be the change you want to see there. Please. pon_or (talk) 01:44, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

Dear @Ponor if you think that is adequate, sure I am happy to do that both in English and Croatian. --Zblace (talk) 04:29, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

This Month in Education: April 2022

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• Digital Education & The Open Space With Herbert Acheampong
• HerStory walks as a part of edit-a-thons
• Join us for Wiki Workshop 2022
• The youngest member of Tartu Wikiclub is 15-year-old student

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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Double trouble

• In the media: The battlegrounds outside and inside Wikipedia

• Special report: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war

• Eyewitness Wikimedian – Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (Part 2)

• Technology report: 8-year-old attribution issues in Media Viewer

• Featured content: Wikipedia's best content from March

• In focus: Editing difficulties on Russian Wikipedia

• Gallery: A voyage around the world with WLM winners

• Interview: On a war and a map

• Serendipity: Wikipedia loves photographs, but hates photographers

• Traffic report: Justice Jackson, the Smiths, and an invasion

• Recent research: Student edits as "civic engagement"; how Wikipedia readers interact with images

• News from the WMF: How Smart is the SMART Copyright Act?

• Essay: The problem with elegant variation

• Humour: Really huge message boxes

• From the archives: Wales resigned WMF board chair in 2006 reorganization

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Sunday May 8 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Swans are musical creatures.

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 2022 Board of Trustees Call for Candidates, Movement Charter/Content preliminary narrative, Human Rights Policy Community Conversations, Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan Feedback, IP blocking and Open Proxies discussion, Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 May 20-22 + local events, and other ongoing activities.

This month we are meeting on Sunday May 8, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC, note that some areas recently experienced daylight savings time changes).--Pharos (talk) 18:57, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 29 May 2022

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the team: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/From the team

• News and notes: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/News and notes

• Community view: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Community view

• Opinion: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Opinion

• In the media: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/In the media

• Special report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Special report

• In focus: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/In focus

• Discussion report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Discussion report

• WikiProject report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/WikiProject report

• Technology report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Technology report

• Featured content: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Featured content

• Interview: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Interview

• Serendipity: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Serendipity

• Recent research: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Recent research

• Tips and tricks: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Tips and tricks

• Traffic report: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Traffic report

• News from Diff: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/News from Diff

• News from the WMF: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/News from the WMF

• Video: How the entire country of Qatar was blocked from editing

• Gallery: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Gallery

• From the archives: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/From the archives

• Essay: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Essay

• Humour: en:Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2022-05-29/Humour

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This Month in Education: May 2022

This Month in Education

Volume 11 • Issue 5 • May 2022

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• Wiki Hackathon in Kwara State
• Introduction of the Wikimedia Fan Club to Kwara State University Malete
• Education in Kosovo
• Bringing the Wikiprojects to the Island of Catanduanes
• Tyap Wikipedia Goes Live
• Spring 1Lib1Ref edition in Poland
• Tyap Editors Host Maiden Wiktionary In-person Training Workshop
• Wikibooks project in teaching
• Africa Eduwiki Network Hosted Conversation about Wikimedian in Education with Nebojša Ratković
• My Journey In The Wiki-Space By Thomas Baah

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This Month in Education: May 2022

This Month in Education

Volume 11 • Issue 5 • May 2022

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• Wiki Hackathon in Kwara State
• Introduction of the Wikimedia Fan Club to Kwara State University Malete
• Education in Kosovo
• Bringing the Wikiprojects to the Island of Catanduanes
• Tyap Wikipedia Goes Live
• Spring 1Lib1Ref edition in Poland
• Tyap Editors Host Maiden Wiktionary In-person Training Workshop
• Wikibooks project in teaching
• Africa Eduwiki Network Hosted Conversation about Wikimedian in Education with Nebojša Ratković
• My Journey In The Wiki-Space By Thomas Baah

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Sunday June 5 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Swan impressions.

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 Movement Charter, Hubs Global Conversation this June, WMF Proposal for Movement Strategy Forum, New rounds of WMF Conference Funds including in-person events, WMF Proposal for Sound Logo Contest, WMF Elections Analysis Committee selection, wikimania:Program submissions due June 10 (scholarship and local event grants due June 3) and other ongoing activities.

This month we are meeting on Sunday June 5, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC).--Pharos via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:20, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 26 June 2022

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: WMF inks new rules on government-ordered takedowns, blasts Russian feds' censor demands, spends big bucks

• In the media: Editor given three-year sentence, big RfA makes news, Guy Standing takes it sitting down

• Special report: "Wikipedia's independence" or "Wikimedia's pile of dosh"?

• Discussion report: MoS rules on CCP name mulled, XRV axe plea nulled, BLPPROD drafting bid pulled

• Opinion: Picture of the Day – how Adam plans to ru(i)n it

• Featured content: Articles on Scots' clash, Yank's tux, Austrian's action flick deemed brilliant prose

• Essay: RfA trend line haruspicy: fact or fancy?

• Recent research: Wikipedia versus academia (again), tables' "immortality" probed

• Serendipity: Was she really a Swiss lesbian automobile racer?

• News from the WMF: Wikimedia Enterprise signs first deals

• Traffic report: Top view counts for shows, movies, and celeb lawsuit that keeps on giving

• Gallery: Celebration of summer, winter

• Humour: Shortcuts, screwballers, Simon & Garfunkel

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Sunday July 3 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Swan celestial.

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 Movement Charter, Hubs Global Conversation last week, Affiliate voting period to shortlist WMF Board candidates (July 1-15), Wikimania updates, Desktop improvements, Wikimedia Enterprise first customers, Call for program submissions and updates for a global diversity of regional/linguistic Wiki-Conferences, Wikidata:Wiki Mentor Africa and other ongoing activities.

This month we are meeting on Sunday July 3, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC).--Pharos via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:58, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

Whose Knowledge? Drop-in July 2022 invitation

Over the next 2 weeks, we want to invite Whose Knowledge? User Group members to a community conversation about the upcoming Board of Trustees election. We’re also testing these drop-ins as a great way to be in touch, and establish periodic check-ins with our community.

There will be 2 informal drop-in sessions on different days and times. Please come to the session that works best for you:

• Drop-in 1: Thursday, July 7, 2022 - 12pm UTC

• Drop-in 2: Monday, July 11, 2022 - 6pm UTC

To learn more, visit the event page. If you can't join us, but you are interested in the conversation, we’d be more than happy to hear from you on our Talk page!

Just a gentle disclaimer: You are getting this message because you have signed up as a member of Whose Knowledge? User Group. We will send invitations like this from time to time, but we promise not to burden your Talk page. Feel free to unsubscribe from the distribution list.

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This Month in Education: June 2022

This Month in Education

Volume 11 • Issue 6 • June 2022

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In This Issue

• Black Lunch Table: Black History Month with Igbo Wikimedians User Group
• Bolivian Teachers Welcomed Wikipedia in their Classroom
• Educational program & Wikivoyage in Ukrainian University
• The Great Learning and Connection: Experience from AFLIA
• New Mexico Students Join Wikimedia Movement Through WikiForHumanRights Campaign
• The school wiki-project run by a 15 year old student came to an end
• The students of Kadir Has University, Istanbul contribute Wikimedia projects in "Civic Responsibility Project" course
• Wiki Trip with Vasil Kamami Wikiclub to Berat, the town of one thousand windows
• Wikiclubs in Albania
• Wikidata in the classroom FGGC Bwari Experience
• Wikipedia and Secondary Schools in Aotearoa New Zealand
• А large-scale online course for teaching beginners to work in Wikipedia has been developed in Russia

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The Signpost: 1 August 2022

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• From the editors: Rise of the machines, or something

• News and notes: Information considered harmful

• In the media: Censorship, medieval hoaxes, "pathetic supervillains", FB-WMF AI TL bid, dirty duchess deeds done dirt cheap

• Op-Ed: The "recession" affair

• Eyewitness Wikimedian – Vinnytsia, Ukraine: War diary (part 3)

• Election guide: The chosen six: 2022 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections

• Community view: Youth culture and notability

• Opinion: Criminals among us

• Arbitration report: Winds of change blow for cyclone editors, deletion dustup draws toward denouement

• Deletion report: This is Gonzo Country

• Discussion report: Notability for train stations, notices for mobile editors, noticeboards for the rest of us

• Traffic report: US TV, JP ex-PM, outer space, and politics of IN, US, UK top charts for July

• Featured content: A little list with surprisingly few lists

• Tips and tricks: Cleaning up awful citations with Citation bot

• In focus: Wikidata insights from a handy little tool

• On the bright side: Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war — three (more) stories

• Essay: How to research an image

• Recent research: A century of rulemaking on Wikipedia analyzed

• Serendipity: Don't cite Wikipedia

• Gallery: A backstage pass

• From the archives: 2012 Russian Wikipedia shutdown as it happened

• Humour: Why did the chicken cross the road?

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This Month in Education: July 2022

This Month in Education

Volume 11 • Issue 7 • July 2022

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In This Issue

• Wikimedia Chile launched a teacher guidebook with Wiki tools for Heritage Education
• Wikimedia Serbia received a new accreditation for the professional development program
• Wikimedia for Illiterate Persons
• Polish Wikipedia is enriched with new EtnoWiki content
• Career Education through Wikipedia

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Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2022 submissions

Dear Željko,

On behalf of the Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2022 programme committee, I am pleased to inform you that your submission "noGLAMorɚ - Wikimedia and (non-institutional) cultural organizations" has been accepted as a workshop, whereas your submission "notNewNORMAL" has been accepted as an off-programme session. Considering that the conference will have language interpretation from English into Russian and vice versa, you have the choice between English and Russian as a language that you will use in your session. If you have not yet registered for the conference, please fill in the registration form. In case you have any additional requests or questions, do not hesitate to contact me or any other committee member.

Best regards.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 11:27, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 August 2022

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: Admins wanted on English Wikipedia, IP editors not wanted on Farsi Wiki, donations wanted everywhere

• Special report: Wikimania 2022: no show, no show up?

• In the media: Truth or consequences? A tough month for truth

• Discussion report: Boarding the Trustees

• News from Wiki Education: 18 years a Wikipedian: what it means to me

• In focus: Thinking inside the box

• Tips and tricks: The unexpected rabbit hole of typo fixing in citations

• Technology report: Vector (2022) deployment discussions happening now

• Serendipity: Two photos of every library on earth

• Featured content: Our man drills are safe for work, but our Labia is Fausta.

• Recent research: The dollar value of "official" external links

• Traffic report: What dreams (and heavily trafficked articles) may come

• Essay: Delete the junk!

• Gallery: A Fringe Affair (but not the show by Edward W. Feery that was on this year)

• Humour: CommonsComix No. 1

• From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago

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This Month in Education: August 2022

This Month in Education

Volume 11 • Issue 8 • August 2022

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In This Issue

• The Making of a Certified Trainer of Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom
• Wikimania SDGs 2022: The Kwara Experience
• An adapted Module teacher’s guide in Yoruba and English about Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom in Nigeria is now available on Commons
• Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Kwara, Nigeria: The Trainers Experience
• Edu Wiki Camp 2022 in Serbia: Together again
• Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Program Nigeria: The Teacher experience
• Wiki For Senior Citizens
• WikiLoves SDGs Nigeria Tours Kwara State University Malete
• Wikiteka project in Poland - summertime

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Wikisporadic Newsletter: September 2022

Wikispore lunch in Berlin

Wikisporadic, an Occasional Newsletter for our Germinating Community.

• Oral knowledge We held a session on oral knowledge and Wikispore as part of Options Space at Wikimedia Summit 2022 in Berlin, looking at options with several African affiliates to link out to cultural topics from Wikipedia(s). Some African communities are already doing oral knowledge documentation like the Nigerian community working on oral history as well as the growing Mozambican community working on oral history documentation in Makhuwa language. This is a way to provide more sources as well as digitize some oral parts of their history.
• Wikidata integration There is a plan to install the new UnlinkedWikibase extension, advancing the vision of Wikisprout and full Wikidata integration such as use in infoboxes.
• Movement strategy Using the Cargo and related extensions on Wikispore, work is underway to create a demo of Movement Strategy activities, adapting Baserow data from Wikimedia Summit.
• Halloween event As a Wikidata 10th Birthday event, there is hope to collaborate at the end of October with Wiki Cemeteries User Group on Grave Spore (see discussion), for maps and in-depth coverage of individual graves.

Participate: Comment on stories and ideas in this Newsletter, Join Wikispore on Telegram, Join Wikispore mailing list

The Signpost: 30 September 2022

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Board vote results, bot's big GET, crat chat gives new mop, WMF seeks "sound logo" and "organizer lab"

• In focus: NPP: Still heaven or hell for new users – and for the reviewers

• In the media: A few complaints and mild disagreements

• Special report: Decentralized Fundraising, Centralized Distribution

• Discussion report: Much ado about Fox News

• Interview: ScottishFinnishRadish's Request for Adminship

• Opinion: Are we ever going to reach consensus?

• Serendipity: Removing watermarks, copyright signs and cigarettes from photos

• Recent research: How readers assess Wikipedia's trustworthiness, and how they could in the future

• Traffic report: Kings and queens and VIPs

• Featured content: Farm-fresh content

• Gallery: A Festival Descends on the City: The Edinburgh Fringe, Pt. 2

• CommonsComix: CommonsComix 2: Paulus Moreelse

• From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 Years ago: September 2022

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This Month in Education: September 2022

This Month in Education

Volume 11 • Issue 9 • September 2022

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In This Issue

• OpenEdu.ch: centralising training documents, a platform for the teachers' community in Switzerland
• Senior Citizens WikiTown 2022: Exploring Olomouc and its heritage
• Wikimedia Research Fund
• Wikimedia Youths Commemorate the International Youth Day 2022 in an exciting way across the globe
• Wikipedia, Education, and the Crisis of Information

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Queering Wikipedia 2022 Announcement

Wikimedia LGBT+ and the organizing team of Queering Wikipedia is holding a Queering Wikipedia 2022 Meeting for LGBT+ Wikimedians and allies. The program will start with an informative, social and cultural activity on Friday 21st October at 18h UTC and working sessions on Saturday 22nd from 14h until 18h with an informal follow-up.

If you have been an active Wikimedian, contributing on LGBT+ topics, supporting LGBT+ activities or if you identify as part of the larger LGBT+ community and allies in Wikimedia, please come help us build our network of LGBT+ Wikimedians, set goals and develop our organization.

We will be meeting online, but encourage you to join in person with fellow Wikimedians if easy and safe. Our working languages are English and Spanish.

Registration for this online event is free and is open until Friday 21st October at 21h UTC.

More information, and registration details, may be found on Meta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/QW2022

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The Signpost: 31 October 2022

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• From the team: A new goose on the roost

• News and notes: Wikipedians question Wikimedia fundraising ethics after "somewhat-viral" tweet

• News from the WMF: Governance updates from, and for, the Wikimedia Endowment

• In the media: Scribing, searching, soliciting, spying, and systemic bias

• Disinformation report: From Russia with WikiLove

• Recent research: Disinformatsiya: Much research, but what will actually help Wikipedia editors?

• Interview: Isabelle Belato on their Request for Adminship

• Featured content: Topics, lists, submarines and Gurl.com

• Serendipity: We all make mistakes – don’t we?

• Traffic report: Mama, they're in love with a criminal

• From the archives: Paid advocacy, a lawsuit over spelling mistakes, deleting Jimbo's article, and the death of Toolserver

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Sunday November 13 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

bestiary (Q830560)⊆compendium (Q1459574)⊆reference work (Q13136).

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 Wikimedia Research Fund, 2023 Ombuds commission and Case Review Committee appointments process, feedback on consultation and community session of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee, various Wikimania topics: (ideas/suggestions for Wikimania 2023, expressions of interest for Wikimania 2024 and beyond, expressions of interest to join Wikimania Steering Committee), and other ongoing activities.

This month we are meeting on Sunday November 13, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 02:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC
UTC times are different from before, and also note that some areas may have recently experienced daylight savings time changes.).--Pharos via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:59, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 November 2022

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: English Wikipedia editors: "We don't need no stinking banners"

• In the media: "The most beautiful story on the Internet"

• Interview: Lisa Seitz-Gruwell on WMF fundraising in the wake of big banner ad RfC

• Opinion: Privacy on Wikipedia in the cyberpunk future

• Disinformation report: Missed and Dissed

• Op-Ed: Diminishing returns for article quality

• Book review: Writing the Revolution

• Technology report: Galactic dreams, encyclopedic reality

• Essay: The Six Million FP Man

• Tips and tricks: (Wiki)break stuff

• Recent research: Study deems COVID-19 editors smart and cool, questions of clarity and utility for WMF's proposed "Knowledge Integrity Risk Observatory"

• Featured content: A great month for featured articles

• Obituary: A tribute to Michael Gäbler

• Concept: The relevance of legal certainty to the English Wikipedia

• Traffic report: Musical deaths, murders, Princess Di's nominative determinism, and sports

• From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago

• CommonsComix: Joker's trick

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - November 2022 Newsletter

This is our twentyfirst newsletter, covering November 2022. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 5, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17.

Activities

• Current: Women in Climate Change editathon in various languages (1 December 2022 - 31 January 2023) (SDG 5 & 13) [17]
• Past: Wikipedia and sustainability, how to increase knowledge on climate change? (SDG all) [1]
• Past: Wikidata editathon in Swedish during COP 27 (SDG 13) [2]

News

• Wikimedia Nederland signed the Wikimedia Affiliates Environmental Sustainability Covenant (SDG all) [3]
• WikiProject Govdirectory was featured as Digital Public Goods (SDG 16) [11]
• The theme for Wiki Loves Africa 2023 has been revealed: Climate and weather (SDG 13) [16]

Resources

• Let's Connect learning report - pilot phase 2022 (SDG 17) [15]

Research

• Recommendations for use of annotations and persistent identifiers in taxonomy and biodiversity publishing [SDG 15) [7]
• A longitudinal analysis of gender diversity in Wikipedia articles (SDG 5) [13]

Videos

• 10 Anos de Wikidata: Wikidata for Open Access to Cultural Heritage, por Susanna Ånäs (AvoinGLAM) (SDG 11) [14]

New WikiProjects

• Myosotis Pilot (SDG 15) [12]

New Wikidata properties

• Bank of information on the historical and cultural heritage of the Republic of Belarus (SDG 11) [4]
• Louisiana Plant ID (SDG 15) [5]
• DrugCentral ID (SDG 3) [8]
• Probes And Drugs ID (SDG 3) [9]

New Wikidata query examples

• Map of water bodies in France (SDG 14) [6]
• Gender balances of winners of literary awards (SDG 5) [10]

Links

• [1] https://www.wikimedia.nl/session_wikiconnl22/
• [2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Sweden/Swedish_Riksdag_documents/Kopplingssprint_COP_27
• [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Affiliates_Environmental_Sustainability_Covenant
• [4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11184
• [5] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11189
• [6] https://w.wiki/5wCp
• [7] https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e97374
• [8] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11198
• [9] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11199
• [10] https://w.wiki/5$BR
• [11] https://mailchi.mp/c3e4c371c62a/announcing-new-dpga-members-and-strengthening-dpi-12387620
• [12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Museum_of_New_Zealand_Te_Papa_Tongarewa/What_We%27ve_Done/Myosotis_Pilot
• [13] https://observablehq.com/@pac02/wednesday-index
• [14] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgh5_oD1yec
• [15] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Let%27s_Connect_learning_report_-_pilot_phase_2022.pdf
• [16] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2023
• [17] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Climate_Change_2022

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Wikitechstorm 2024

ENGLISH

Hi we are planning to organize a Wikitechstorm in Switzerland (French part). We are looking for organizers and volunteers ! The page is an initial draft page that will be moved to mediawiki once I have enough edits to be allowed to do it (or someone else moves it). Please reply on our talk page here : Talk:Les sans pagEs#Wikitechstorm 2024

Natacha LSP (talk) 11:09, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

FRANÇAIS

Bonjour, nous prévoyons d'organiser un Wikitechstorm en Suisse (partie française). C'est un Hackaton technique tout spécialment désigné pour les novices, les femmes et les personnes non bianires. Nous recherchons des organisateurices et des volontaires ! Voici une première ébauche de page qui sera déplacée sur mediawiki dès que j'aurai suffisamment d'éditions pour être autorisé à le faire (ou que quelqu'un d'autre la déplacera). Merci de répondre sur notre page de discussion ici : Talk:Les sans pagEs#Wikitechstorm 2024

Natacha LSP (talk) 11:09, 5 décembre 2022 (UTC) Natacha LSP (talk) 11:23, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

Membership renewal

Dear Wiki Project Med Supporter, you are receiving this message as you were a member in 2022. As 2023 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 19:56, 11 December 2022 (UTC)

This Month in Education: End of the 2022

This Month in Education

Volume 11 • Issue 10 • October–November 2022

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In This Issue

• 2nd Latin American Regional Meeting on Education
• Adopting Wikipedia for Secondary School Students in Nigeria Classroom
• Celebrating 2022 Vibrance in Kwara State University Malete
• Celebrating the Wikipedia and Wikidata Birthday in school
• Report on school libraries in Poland for the Wikiteka project
• Wiki For Senior Citizens Network
• WikiEducation, Educational practices and experiences in Mexico with Wikipedia and other open resources
• Wikimedia & Education Workshops: a Wiki Movimento Brasil initiative
• An event at the National History Museum in Tirana
• Students 24-hour competition on Wikipedia article writing
• Wiki-Data a Giant at 10
• WikiGraphers: Visualizing Open Knowledge
• Wikimedia Israel’s Educational Innovation: “Students Write Wikipedia” as a Matriculation-Exam Alternative
• Wikimedia Morocco User Group Empowers Moroccan Teachers to Use Wikipedia in the Classroom
• Wikimedia Russia has released the "Introduction to Wikipedia" textbook
• “Wikipedia for School” contest was held in Ukraine for the third time
• Announcing the Wikipedia & Education User Group Election Results

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The Signpost: 1 January 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation ousts, bans quarter of Arabic Wikipedia admins

• In the media: Odd bedfellows, Elon and Jimbo, reliable sources for divorces, and more

• Interview: ComplexRational's RfA debrief

• Technology report: Wikimedia Foundation's Abstract Wikipedia project "at substantial risk of failure"

• Essay: Mobile editing

• Arbitration report: Arbitration Committee Election 2022

• Recent research: Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement in talk page disputes

• Serendipity: Wikipedia about FIFA World Cup 2022: quick, factual and critical

• Featured content: Would you like to swing on a star?

• Traffic report: Football, football, football! Wikipedia Football Club!

• CommonsComix: #4: The Course of WikiEmpire

• From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - December 2022 Newsletter

This is our twentysecond newsletter, covering December 2022. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 5, 13, 15 and 16.

Meetings

• January 15: Online user group meeting (SDG all)

Activities

• Wiki Loves Plants (SDG 15)
• 365 climate edits (SDG 13)
• Women in Climate Change 2022 (SDG 5 & 13)

News

• Museology, Myosotis, and metadata oh my! Sharing sustainably in Wikipedia (SDG 15)

Resources

• New Book: Open Mapping Towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDG all)

Videos

• Margaret Donald - Wikidata, OpenRefine & Biota (SDG 15)

Featured content

• English Wikipedia: List of alismatid families (SDG 15)

New Wikidata properties

• has biological vector (SDG 15)
• Bureau of Meteorology location ID (SDG 13)
• CIViC gene ID (SDG 3)
• Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate ID (SDG 16)
• Tanzania Parliament member ID (SDG 16)
• Lygaeoidea Species File ID (SDG 15)

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The Signpost: 16 January 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• From the team: We heard zoomers liked fortnights: the biweekly Signpost rides again

• Special report: Coverage of 2022 bans reveals editors serving long sentences in Saudi Arabia since 2020

• News and notes: Revised Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines up for vote, WMF counsel departs, generative models under discussion

• In the media: Court orders user data in libel case, Saudi Wikipedia in the crosshairs, Larry Sanger at it again

• Technology report: View it! A new tool for image discovery

• In focus: Busting into Grand Central

• Serendipity: How I bought part of Wikipedia – for less than $100

• Gallery: What is our responsibility when it comes to images?

• Humour: New geologically speedy deletion criteria introduced

• Opinion: Good old days, in which fifth-symbol-lacking lipograms roam'd our librarious litany

• Featured content: Flip your lid

• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2022

• From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2023 Newsletter

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

Meetings

• Upcoming: 19 February - User group meeting (SDG all)
• Past: 15 January - User group meeting (SDG all)

Activities

• Ongoing: Wiki Loves Plants (SDG 14)
• Ongoing: 365 climate edits (SDG 13)
• Upcoming: The 2023 Bug of the Year Edit-a-thon (SDG 14)
• Past: Lexeme challenge Urology (SDG 3)
• Past: Swedish Wikipedia weekly challenge - Frogs versus lizards (SDG 14)
• Past: Three hundred episodes of Critter of the Week (SDG 14)
• Past: Wikidata Queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and pandemic (SDG 3)
• Past: Women in Climate Change 2022 (SDG 5 & 13)

News

• The stories behind the Wiki Loves Earth 2022 photos from Türkiye (SDG 14)
• Announcing our funding support from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) (SDG 3)
• Jumping for science: how Wikipedia assignments inspire STEM students (SDG 14)
• Birds of NYC Photo Contest Winners announced! (SDG 14)
• Using Wikidata to Connect Constituents With Their Government (SDG 16)
• Wiki Loves Earth 2022 presents the winners of the special nomination “Human rights and environment”! (SDG 10 & 14)
• Equity, diversity & inclusion in affiliate governance (SDG 5 & 10)

Resources

• a Life Sciences Knowledge Graph with a Data Lake (SDG 3)

Videos

• Editor uses Wikidata to find new uses for existing drugs and speed up approval process for new treatments (SDG 3)
• WikiForHumanRights Information Session (SDG 10)

Featured content

• English Wikipedia: List of birds of Tuvalu (SDG 14)
• English Wikipedia: List of World Heritage Sites in Laos (SDG 11)
• English Wikipedia: List of World Heritage Sites in Bangladesh (SDG 11)

New Wikidata properties

• NIP (SDG 16)
• NSR doctor ID (SDG 3)
• UniProt disease ID (SDG 3)
• Strazha ID (SDG 16)
• United States House of Representatives ID (SDG 16)

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The Signpost: 4 February 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• From the editor: New for the Signpost: Author pages, tag pages, and a decent article search function

• News and notes: Foundation update on fundraising, new page patrol, Tides, and Wikipedia blocked in Pakistan

• Section 230: Twenty-six words that created the internet, and the future of an encyclopedia

• Disinformation report: Wikipedia on Santos

• Special report: Legal status of Wikimedia projects "unclear" under potential European legislation

• In the media: Furor over new Wikipedia skin, followup on Saudi bans, and legislative debate

• Op-Ed: Estonian businessman and political donor brings lawsuit against head of national Wikimedia chapter

• Opinion: Study examines cultural leanings of Wikimedia projects' visual art coverage

• Recent research: Wikipedia's "moderate yet systematic" liberal citation bias

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Organized Labour

• Tips and tricks: XTools: Data analytics for your list of created articles

• Featured content: 20,000 Featureds under the Sea

• Traffic report: Films, deaths and ChatGPT

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This Month in Education: January 2023

This Month in Education

Volume 12 • Issue 1 • January 2023

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In This Issue

• Educational Projects 2023-1 in Mexico
• Integration of Wikipedia in Ukrainian universities – teacher-led and student-led
• Transitional Justice in Kosovo edit-a-thon and Partnership with Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Prishtina
• Wikidata Citation Hunt Program for secondary school students, Dubai
• Wikipedia edit-a-thon with students from Art Faculty - University of Prishtina
• Тeacher from Belgrade got a reward for using Wikibooks in teaching

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We need your feedback on a tool from the Wikimedia Summit

Reminder: the guide to using Baserow, presented during the Wikimedia Summit.

Hi! I'm contacting you as one of the participants in the Wikimedia Summit 2022, to kindly ask for your feedback through a 5-10 minute survey to evaluate 'Baserow' (note: the survey is on a Google form).

Baserow was a tool through which participants in the Summit co-created a database of Movement Strategy activities. We hope to learn from you how useful it may be to keep using it in the future to help document and connect on Movement Strategy work.

You are welcome and encouraged to fill out the survey in any language. Your feedback would be very appreciated --Abbad (WMF) (talk) 15:14, 16 February 2023 (UTC).

The Signpost: 20 February 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Terms of Use update, Steward elections, and Wikipedia back in Pakistan

• In the media: Arbitrators open case after article alleges Wikipedia "intentionally distorts" Holocaust coverage

• Disinformation report: The "largest con in corporate history"?

• Essay: Machine-written articles: a new challenge for Wikipedia

• Tips and tricks: All about writing at DYK

• Featured content: Eden, lost.

• Gallery: Love is in the air

• Traffic report: Superbowl? Pfft. Give me some Bollywood! Yours sincerely, the world

• From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago: Let's (not) delete the Main Page!

• Cobwebs: Editorial: The loss of the moral high ground

• Humour: The RfA Candidate's Song

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - February 2023 Newsletter

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

• 2023-03-05 User group meeting (SDG all)
• Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting (SDG all)

Activities

• Ongoing: 365 climate edits (SDG 13)
• Ongoing: Suggest "Environmental sustainability and climate crisis" topics for Wikimania (SDG all)
• Ongoing: Africa Environment WikiFocus (SDG 13)
• Past: Edit for Climate Change: Wikipedia Editathon (SDG 13)
• Past: WikiForHumanRights 2023 Campaign: Capacity Building Sessions on "Tools for Finding the Right Articles" and "Building Article List with Petscan" (SDG 10 & 13)
• Past: WikiForHumanRights 2023 Campaign: Regional Office Hours for Africa and Maghreb Regions (SDG 10 & 13)

News

• NCBI breakdown of common garden foods with photographs by Phytotheca (SDG 2)

Resources

• 3000 Arctic images (SDG 13)
• SMART-Servier Medical Art upload (SDG 3)

Research

• Open Source in Environmental Sustainability (SDG 13)

New Wikidata properties

• Norwegian war prisoner detention camp ID (SDG 16)
• Iowa legislator ID (SDG 16)
• National Grid Balancing Mechanism unit ID (SDG 7)

Wikidata query examples

• Map of disasters by type (SDG 11)

Featured articles

• English Wikipedia: South Asian river dolphin (SDG 14)
• English Wikipedia: List of World Heritage Sites in Sri Lanka (SDG 11)
• English Wikipedia: List of lamiid families (SDG 15)

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

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Personal Invitation to the Open Innovation Café of Wikimedia Deutschland

Hello @Zblace:

This year we are setting out on a journey to build a new format for the Wikimedia Movement, a safe space that will foster innovation and allow members of our community to experiment with and build new ideas for Free Knowledge. This is why we would like to extend a personal invitation to you to join our Open Innovation Café where we want to tell you all about what we are planning and how we would love you to be involved!

We are reaching out to people, affiliate representatives and Wikimedia community members who specifically indicated in some capacity that they are either working on or interested in innovation in the Wikimedia Movement and/or recommendation no. 9 “Innovate in Free Knowledge” of the Movement Strategy 2030. We will be a diverse, international group. The Café will be done in English and will be hosted by us. There is no preparation required, simply drop in as you are.

When and where will the Open Innovation Café take place? We will be running two identical open cafés, so choose the slot and time zone that suits you best:

• Open Innovation Café 1 on Tuesday, March 7th, 10:00-10:30 am CET: Access the Zoom call through this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86860546924?pwd=UWhGeHVSM1B1NzRybWJtQnEyN3NHdz09 Meeting ID: 868 6054 6924 Passcode: 752756 Add event to your calendar
• Open Innovation Café 2 on Wednesday, March 15th, 6:00-6:30pm CET: Access the Zoom call through this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86403799400?pwd=R3JLVlpENTlKNHFqQnVJRUpBV3J3QT09 Meeting ID: 864 0379 9400 Passcode: 859211 Add event to your calendar

We look forward to seeing you at the Open Innovation Café and diving deeper into this exciting, pan-Movement endeavor!

--Kannika Thaimai (WMDE) (talk) and Lucia Obst (WMDE) (talk) 15:09, 2 March 2023 (CET). Feel free to reach out to us at unlock@wikimedia.de

Dear @Zblace:, We saw that you were not able to make it to our Open Innovation Café, but we have set up a page on Meta-Wiki documenting our Re-Imagining UNLOCK journey. So be sure to have a look at what we are planning and join any future discussions! In short: We are setting up a new innovation format for the WIkimedia Movement, but we cannot do this on our own!

How can you get involved? We have created a quick 4-question survey (anonymous) that will help us in better understanding the needs and challenges of our Movement in innovating in Free Knowledge. This will form the basis of any new innovation format to take shape in the future. It would be wonderful if you could give us a few minutes of your time as we are grateful for any response.

Many thanks for being a part of this journey. We are also happy to keep you in the loop of any future developments, outcomes of the survey and the next Open Café! Best wishes,--Lucia Obst (WMDE) (talk) 12:50, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 9 March 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: What's going on with the Wikimedia Endowment?

• Technology report: Second flight of the Soviet space bears: Testing ChatGPT's accuracy

• In the media: What should Wikipedia do? Publish Russian propoganda? Be less woke? Cover the Holocaust in Poland differently?

• Featured content: In which over two-thirds of the featured articles section needs to be copied over to WikiProject Military History's newsletter

• Recent research: "Wikipedia's Intentional Distortion of the Holocaust" in Poland and "self-focus bias" in coverage of global events

• From the archives: Five, ten, and fifteen years ago

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This Month in Education: February 2023

This Month in Education

Volume 12 • Issue 2 • February 2023

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In This Issue

• A Strategic Direction for a Massive Online Course for Educators in Brazil
• Alliance Funding for Wikipedia as a school resource in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, New Zealand
• Call for Submissions to Wiki Workshop 2023
• Collaboration with Charles University on the creation of Czech Wikipedia started in January
• Open Education Week 2023 in the Wikimedia Mexico Education Program
• Wikiclubs with different schools in Albania

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The Signpost: 20 March 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Wikimania submissions deadline looms, Russian government after our lucky charms, AI woes nix CNET from RS slate

• Eyewitness: Three more stories from Ukrainian Wikimedians

• In the media: Paid editing, plagiarism payouts, proponents of a ploy, and people peeved at perceived preferences

• Featured content: Way too many featured articles

• Interview: 228/2/1: the inside scoop on Aoidh's RfA

• Traffic report: Who died? Who won? Who lost?

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The Signpost: 20 March 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Wikimania submissions deadline looms, Russian government after our lucky charms, AI woes nix CNET from RS slate

• Eyewitness: Three more stories from Ukrainian Wikimedians

• In the media: Paid editing, plagiarism payouts, proponents of a ploy, and people peeved at perceived preferences

• Featured content: Way too many featured articles

• Interview: 228/2/1: the inside scoop on Aoidh's RfA

• Traffic report: Who died? Who won? Who lost?

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - March 2023 Newsletter

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

Meetings

• Upcoming: User group meeting 2023-04-02 (SDG all)
• Past: User group meeting 2023-03-05 (SDG all)

Activities

• Ongoing: 365 climate edits (SDG 13)
• Upcoming: WikiForHumanRights (SDG 10 & 13)
• Upcoming: April 19 - LaGuardia Community College Earth Day Translatathon with Casa de las Américas NYC (SDG 13)
• Upcoming: April 22 - Earth Day 2023 Edit-a-thon Environment of Brooklyn Focus with Sure We Can (SDG 13)
• Upcoming: April 23 - Earth Day Wiknic NYC (SDG 13)
• Past: Gender and culture related event to test image suggestions on Wikipedia (SDG 5)
• Past: Feminism and Folklore 2023 (SDG 5)
• Past: Art+Feminism edit-a-thon for Nigerian female artists (SDG 5)

News

• Putting our energy into Wikipedia as climate action (SDG 13)
• How Art+Feminism is using Wikipedia to promote equity in the art world (SDG 5)
• Biodiversity Heritage Library and Wikidata (SDG 15)
• Black history month and more (SDG 10)
• Women Do News: Tackling the Gender Divide in Journalism Through Wikipedia (SDG 5)
• Wiki Loves Earth 2023 is starting! (SDG 15)
• The Quest to Close the Gender Gap on Wikipedia Continues; Five-Year Anniversary with Feminism & Folklore (SDG 5)
• WikiGap Malaysia 2023: Empowering women in indigenous languages (SDG 5)
• Wikipedia has a climatetech problem (SDG 13)

New Wikidata properties

• NCI Drug Dictionary ID (SDG 3)
• Malaysia Federal Legislation act ID (SDG 16)
• Moscow University Herbarium ID (SDG 15)
• Norwegian Petroleum Directorate field ID (SDG 13)

Featured content

• English Wikipedia: List of Saxifragales families (SDG 15)
• English Wikipedia: Red-throated wryneck (SDG 15)

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

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The Signpost: 3 April 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• From the editor: Some long-overdue retractions
• News and notes: Sounding out, a universal code of conduct, and dealing with AI
• In the media: Twiddling Wikipedia during an online contest, and other news
• Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" case is ongoing
• Featured content: Hail, poetry! Thou heav'n-born maid
• Recent research: Language bias: Wikipedia captures at least the "silhouette of the elephant", unlike ChatGPT
• From the archives: April Fools' through the ages
• Disinformation report: Sus socks support suits, seems systemic

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This Month in Education: March 2023

This Month in Education

Volume 12 • Issue 3 • March 2023

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In This Issue

• Audio-seminar project of the Wikimedia Mexico Education Program
• Empowering Nigerian Female Artists: Through Art & Feminism Edith-A-Thon at KWASU Fan Club
• Exploring How Wikipedia Works
• Florida graduate students complete Library History edit-a-thon for credit
• Improving hearing health content in Brazil
• Media Literacy Portal to become a key resource for media education in Czech Libraries
• Wikeys in the Albanian language
• Wikimarathon is an opportunity to involve students and teachers in creating and editing articles in Wikipedia
• Wikimedia Polska short report
• Wikimedia Serbia participated in the State Seminar of the The Mathematical Society of Serbia

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The Signpost: 26 April 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Staff departures at Wikimedia Foundation, Jimbo hands in the bits, and graphs' zeppelin burns

• In the media: Contested truth claims in Wikipedia

• Obituary: Remembering David "DGG" Goodman

• Arbitration report: Holocaust in Poland, Jimbo in the hot seat, and a desysopping

• Opinion: What Jimbo's question revealed about scamming

• Op-Ed: Wikipedia as an anchor of truth

• Special report: Signpost statistics between years 2005 and 2022

• News from the WMF: Collective planning with the Wikimedia Foundation

• Featured content: In which we described the featured articles in rhyme again

• From the archives: April Fools' through the ages, part two

• Humour: The law of hats

• Traffic report: Long live machine, the future supreme

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - April 2023 Newsletter

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

• Upcoming: User group meeting 2023-05-07 (SDG all)
• Past: User group meeting 2023-04-02 (SDG all)

Activities

• Ongoing: 365 climate edits (SDG 13)
• Ongoing: WikiForHumanRights 2023 International Writing Contest (SDG 13, 14, 6)
• Ongoing: WikiForHumanRights 2023 local community events (SDG 13, 15, 14, 6)
• Ongoing: WikiCampusTourNigeria Project (SDG 6, 13, 14, 15)
• Upcoming (and past): Women, architecture and design (SDG 5)
• Past: WikiGap Tirana 2023, Albania (SDG 5)
• Past: BBC 100 women editathon (SDG 5)
• Past: WikiGAP in Prishtina (SDG 5)
• Past: 15 Days of French women writers (SDG 5)
• Past: TSU USF Women's History Month Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (SDG 5)
• Past: Crafting a Better Wikipedia: Women of Color in the Renwick Gallery (SDG 5)

News

• TUSWUG S2E2: Women in Wiki (SDG 5)
• Inaugural edition of the organizer lab awards – 6 community grants (SDG 5 & SDG 13)
• Bolstering women’s voices and histories on Wikipedia (SDG 5)
• A huge upload for biologists (SDG 15)
• WikiForHumanRights 2023 Launch Webinar (SDG 13, 14, 6)
• WikiForHumanRights 2023 and WMF Human Rights Team Online Safety Capacity Building for Organizers (SDG 13)
• WikiForHummanRights 2023 and Let's Connect Capacity building on good practices for retention (SDG 13)
• Living through a Triple Planetary Emergency: Capturing the Most Impactful Knowledge to Weather the Storm (SDG 10 & SDG 13)
• Wikimedia Foundation Environmental Sustainability Report for 2022 (SDG 13)
• Wikimedia Sverige sustainability report 2022 (in Swedish) (SDG 13)

Research

• Hypotheses in urban ecology: building a common knowledge base (SDG 15)

New Wikidata properties

• student retention rate (SDG 4)
• INEP ID (SDG 4) [51]
• Kulturenvanteri.com ID (SDG 11)
• holds diplomatic passport of (SDG 16)
• SINTA affiliation ID (SDG 4)

Featured content

• English Wikipedia: List of afrosoricids (SDG 15)

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

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The Signpost: 8 May 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's weekly journal about Wikipedia and Wikimedia

• News and notes: New legal "deVLOPments" in the EU

• In the media: Vivek's smelly socks, online safety, and politics

• Recent research: Gender, race and notability in deletion discussions

• Featured content: I wrote a poem for each article, I found rhymes for all the lists;
  My first featured picture of this year now finally exists!

• Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" approaches conclusion

• News from the WMF: Planning together with the Wikimedia Foundation

• Special report: There Shall Be Seasons Refreshing – Stories from WikiConference India 2023

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Queering Wikipedia 2023 conference

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

Thanks, from Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:56, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

Personal Invitation to the Open Innovation Café volume 2 of Wikimedia Deutschland

Hello @Zblace:

We asked – you delivered: After asking all our stakeholders for input through our Open Innovation Café volume 1, a survey and interviews, we have collected the research data and compiled some insightful problem statements. These cover the needs and challenges our Movement faces in innovating in Free Knowledge – quite eye-opening!

Join us at our Open Innovation Café volume 2 to hear about what we have found and how we will use these insights in building a new innovation format for the Wikimedia Movement. Maybe some insights will also be helpful in your community work as well?

When and where will the Open Innovation Café take place? We will be running two identical open cafés, so choose the slot and time zone that suits you best:

• Open Innovation Café option 1 on Tuesday, May 23rd, 5:00-5:30 pm CET: Access the Zoom call through this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86297641111?pwd=OEQwQXVBV21mWlZJTWxld21HeGFHdz09 Meeting ID: 862 9764 1111 Passcode: 021114
• Open Innovation Café option 2 on Thursday, May 25th, 9:30-10:00am CET: Access the Zoom call through this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83425967908?pwd=TTJyS29JRWNxT3dXektCVkMwdU1LQT09 Meeting ID: 834 2596 7908 Passcode: 088627

This will be done in English and is hosted by the Innovation team at Wikimedia Deutschland. There is no requirement for joining, simply drop in as you are. Looking forward to seeing you there! --Lucia Obst (WMDE) (talk) 09:50, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 22 May 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Golden parachutes: Record severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation

• In the media: History, propaganda and censorship

• Arbitration report: Final decision in "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland"

• Recent research: Create or curate, cooperate or compete? Game theory for Wikipedia editors

• Featured content: A very musical week for featured articles

• Traffic report: Coronation, chatbot, celebs

• WikiProject report: Wikipedians Convene for Queering Wikipedia 2023: The First International LGBT+ Wikipedia Conference

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This Month in Education: April 2023

This Month in Education

Volume 12 • Issue 4 • April 2023

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In This Issue

• Auckland Museum Alliance fund project update
• Introducing Wikipedia to Kusaal Language Teachers
• KWASU Fan Club Leads the Way in 21st Century Learning with Wiki in School Program
• On-line Courses for Educators in Poland
• Online meeting of Ukrainian educators working with Wikipedia – four perspectives
• Wikiclubs Editathon in Elbasan, Albania
• Wikipedia at the Brazilian Linguistics Olympiad
• Wikipedia at the University of Łódź Information Management Conference

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The Signpost: 5 June 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: WMRU director forks new 'pedia, birds flap in top '22 piccy, WMF weighs in on Indian gov's map axe plea

• In the media: Section 230 stands tall, WP vs. UK bill, Miss Information dissed again

• Featured content: Poetry under pressure

• Traffic report: Celebs, controversies and a chatbot in the public eye

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The Signpost: 19 June 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: WMF Terms of Use now in force, new Creative Commons licensing

• In the media: English WP editor glocked after BLP row on Italian 'pedia

• Featured content: Content, featured

• Recent research: Hoaxers prefer currently-popular topics

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The Signpost: 3 July 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Online Safety Bill: Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia UK launch open letter

• Disinformation report: Imploded submersible outfit foiled trying to sing own praises on Wikipedia

• In the media: Journo proposes mass Wiki dox, sponsored articles on Fandom, Section 230 discussed

• Featured content: Incensed

• Traffic report: Are you afraid of spiders? Arnold? The Idol? ChatGPT?

• Humour: United Nations dispatches peacekeeping force to Wikipedia policy discussions

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This Month in Education: June 2023

This Month in Education

Volume 12 • Issue 5 • June 2023

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In This Issue

• Africa Day 2023: Abuja Teachers celebrates
• From editing articles to civic power – Wikimedia UK's research on democracy and Wikipedia
• Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Program in Yemen Brings Positive Impact to Yemeni Teachers
• Using Wikipedia in education: students' and teachers' view
• The Journey of Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Lagos State
• WMB goes to Serbia
• But we don't want it to end!

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CEE Newsletter - Volume 3 • Issue 2 • April-June 2023

Hello everyone,

you are receiving this message, as you subscribe in the past to receive copy of the Newsletter. Therefore, please be informed that CEE Newsletter is published to a second issue for this year, covering previous month from April to June. You can read whole issue here with a stories from all over the CEE Region.

The CEE Newsletter is open for new members in the editorial team, so please show your interest by writing an email to Barbara Klen or Toni Ristovski where you will express your interest and you will share with us if you are good in programming templates, in proofreading, translations, or in writing or finding interesting articles from CEE.

--Toni Ristovski on behalf of the CEE Hub --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:22, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

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

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 02:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC
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)

The Signpost: 17 July 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Big bux hidden beneath wine-dark sea as we wait for the Tides to go out?

• In the media: Tentacles of Emirates plot attempt to ensnare Wikipedia

• Obituary: David Thomsen (Dthomsen8) and Ingo Koll (Kipala)

• News from the WMF: ABC for Fundraising: Advancing Banner Collaboration for fundraising campaigns

• In focus: Are the children of celebrities over-represented in French cinema?

• Tips and tricks: What automation can do for you (and your WikiProject)

• Recent research: Wikipedia-grounded chatbot "outperforms all baselines" on factual accuracy

• Humour: New fringe theories to be introduced

• Cobwebs: If you're reading this, you're probably on a desktop

• Featured content: Scrollin', scrollin', scrollin', keep those readers scrollin', got to keep on scrollin', Rawhide!

• Traffic report: The Idol becomes the Master

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Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2023 submission

Dear Željko,

On behalf of the Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2023 programme committee, I am pleased to inform you that your submission titled "Wikification of Wikimedia Events Organizing" has been accepted as a workshop. If you have not yet registered for the conference, please fill in the registration form. In case you have any additional requests or questions, do not hesitate to contact me or any other committee member.

Best regards.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 10:47, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

@Kiril Simeonovski thank you for the update. I registered, but I can not attend without scholarship, so I hope that can also be confirmed. Zblace (talk) 11:26, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 1 August 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: City officials attempt to doxx Wikipedians, Ruwiki founder banned, WMF launches Mastodon server

• In the media: Truth, AI, bull from politicians, and climate change

• Disinformation report: Hot climate, hot hit, hot money, hot news hot off the presses!

• Obituary: Donald Cram, Peter McCawley, and Eagleash

• Tips and tricks: Citation tools for dummies!

• Humour: Does Wikipedia present neutral perspectives?

• In focus: Journals cited by Wikipedia

• Opinion: Are global bans the last step?

• Featured content: Featured Content, 1 to 15 July

• Traffic report: Come on Oppie, let's go party

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This Month in Education: July 2023

This Month in Education

Volume 12 • Issue 7 • July 2023

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In This Issue

• Wikimedia Kaduna Connect Campaign
• Wikimedia Serbia published a paper Promoting Equity in Access to Open Knowledge: An Example of the Wikipedia Educational Program
• Wikimedia and Education Kailali Multiple campus
• WikiCamp in Istog, Kosovo: Promoting Knowledge and Nature Appreciation
• Wiki at the Brazilian National History Symposium
• US & Canada program reaches 100M words added
• Renewed Community Wikiconference brought together experienced Wikipedians and newcomers
• Kusaal Wikipedia Workshop at Ajumako Campus, University of Education, Winneba
• Join us to celebrate the Kiwix4Schools Africa Mentorship Program Graduation Ceremony
• Activities that took place during the presentation of the WikiEducation book. Educational practices and experiences in Mexico with Wikipedia and other open resources in Xalala, Veracruz from the Wikimedia Mexico Education Program
• 62+ Participants Graduates from the Kiwix4Schools Africa Mentorship Program
• “Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom” course launched in Ukraine
• OFWA and Goethe Institute Host Wiki Skills For Librarians Workshop-Ghana

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The Signpost: 15 August 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Dude, Where's My Donations? Wikimedia Foundation announces another million in grants for non-Wikimedia-related projects

• In the media: An accusation of bias from Brazil, a lawsuit from Portugal, plagiarism from Florida

• In focus: 2023 Good Article Nomination drive is underway: get your barnstars here!

• Special report: Thirteen years later, why are most administrators still from 2005?

• Tips and tricks: How to find images for your articles, check their copyright, upload them, and restore them

• Cobwebs: Getting serious about writing

• Opinion: Copyright trolls, or the last beautiful free souls on this planet?

• Serendipity: Why I stopped taking photographs almost altogether

• Featured content: Barbenheimer confirmed

• Humour: Arbitration Committee to accept case against Right Honorable Frimbley Cantingham, 15th Viscount Bellington-upon-Porkshire

• Traffic report: Come on in, and pull yourself up a chair

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The Signpost: 31 August 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• From the editor: Beta version of signpost.news now online

• News and notes: You like RecentChanges?

• In the media: Taking it sleazy

• Recent research: The five barriers that impede "stitching" collaboration between Commons and Wikipedia

• Draftspace: Bad Jokes and Other Draftspace Novelties

• Humour: The Dehumourification Plan

• Traffic report: Raise your drinking glass, here's to yesterday

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The Signpost: 16 September 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Wikimedia power sharing – just an advisory role for the volunteer community?

• In the media: "Just flirting", going Dutch and Shapps for the defence?

• Obituary: Nosebagbear

• Serendipity: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no paywall, for thou, Wikipedia Library, art with me

• Featured content: Catching up

• Concept: Strange portal opened by CERN researchers brings Wikipedia articles from "other worlds"

• Traffic report: Some of it's magic, some of it's tragic

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The Signpost: 3 October 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Wikimedia Endowment financial statement published

• In the media: History is written by whoever can harness the most editors

• Recent research: Readers prefer ChatGPT over Wikipedia; concerns about limiting "anyone can edit" principle "may be overstated"

• Featured content: By your logic,

• Concept: Wikipedia policies from other worlds: WP:NOANTLERS

• Poetry: "The Sight"

• Traffic report: There shall be no slaves in the land of lands, it's a Bollywood jam

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This Month in Education: September 2023

This Month in Education

Volume 12 • Issue 7 • September 2023

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In This Issue

• Inauguration of the Kent Wiki Club at the Wikimania 2023 Conference
• Letter Magic: Supercharging Your WikiEducation Programs
• Réseau @pprendre (Learning Network) : The Initiative for Educational Change in Francophone West Africa
• WikiChallenge Ecoles d’Afrique closes its 5th edition with 13 winning schools
• WikiConecta: connecting Brazilian university professors and Wikimedia
• Wikimedia Germany launches interactive event series Open Source AI in Education

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Invitation to participate in the photo contest Unpacking Body Plurality in Sports 2023

English Dear Zblace,

We’re excited to share with you our first-ever art and photo contest for this year’s #VisibleWikiWomen, on Unpacking Body Plurality in Sports!

We’re inviting submissions of photos, illustrations, and other forms of art depicting womxn and non-binary people in sports — as athletes, fans, cheerleaders, referees, journalists, and much more. Our #VisibleWikiWomxn contest celebrates the bodies of womxn in sports by centering their voices, images, stories, and experiences in all their diversity, plurality, and glory.

You can find all the information on our landing page: Unpacking Body Plurality in Sports

Spanish Hola Zblace,

Queremos invitarte a participar de nuestro primer concurso de arte y fotografía "Cuerpos plurales en el deporte" en el marco de la campaña #VisibleWikiWomen de este año.

Estamos convocando a presentar fotos, ilustraciones y otras formas de arte que representen a mujeres y personas no binarias en el deporte - atletas, personas aficionadas, animadoras, árbitras, periodistas y personas ligadas al deporte en todos los aspectos. Nuestro concurso #VisibleWikiWomxn celebra los cuerpos de las mujeres en el deporte centrándose en sus voces, imágenes, historias y experiencias en toda su diversidad, pluralidad y gloria.

Puedes encontrar toda la información en la página del concurso.

Portuguese Olá Zblace,

Ficamos felizes em convidar você a participar de nossa primeira Wiki-competição de arte e fotografia, como parte da campanha #VisibleWikiWomen deste ano, sobre "Corpos plurais no esporte"!

Estamos recebendo fotos, ilustrações, e outras formas de arte que retratem mulheres e pessoas não-binárias nos esportes — como atletas, torcedoras, juízas, jornalistas, e muito mais. Nossa competição #VisibleWikiWomxn celebra os corpors de mulheres e pessoas não-binárias e coloca ao centro suas vozes, imagens, histórias, e experiências em toda sua pluralidade e glória.

Você pode encontrar todas as informações necessárias em nossa página: Unpacking Body Plurality in Sports.

Mariana Fossatti (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:49, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 October 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Where have all the administrators gone?

• In the media: Thirst traps, the fastest loading sites on the web, and the original collaborative writing

• Gallery: Before and After: Why you don't need to know how to restore images to make massive improvements

• Featured content: Yo, ho! Blow the man down!

• Traffic report: The calm and the storm

• News from Diff: Sawtpedia: Giving a Voice to Wikipedia Using QR Codes

• Humour: New citation template introduced for divine revelations, drug use, and really thinking about it

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The Signpost: 6 November 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• Arbitration report: Admin bewilderingly unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin who was extremely banned in 2015

• In the media: UK gov bigwig accused of ripping off WP articles for book, Wikipedians accused of being dicks by a rich man

• News and notes: Board candidacy process posted, editors protest WMF privacy measure, sweet meetups

• Opinion: An open letter to Elon Musk

• WikiCup report: The WikiCup 2023

• News from Wiki Ed: Equity lists on Wikipedia

• Recent research: How English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades

• Featured content: Like putting a golf course in a historic site.

• Wikidata: Evaluating qualitative systemic bias in large article sets on Wikipedia

• Traffic report: Cricket jumpscare

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CEE Newsletter Volume 3 • Issue 4 • July-August 2023

Hi everyone,

Please find latest issue of the CEE Newsletter, where you can find a variety of the articles from various communities across the CEE region, and as well a lot of articles connected with the CEE Meeting 2023.

Enjoy reading and contact us on newsletter@wmceehub.org if you have any ideas for proposals :) --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:36, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

This Month in Education: October 2023

This Month in Education

Volume 12 • Issue 8 • October 2023

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In This Issue

• 3 Generations at Wikipedia Education Program in Türkiye
• CBSUA Launches Wiki Education in Partnership with PhilWiki Community and Bikol Wikipedia Community
• Celebrating Wikidata’s Birthday in Elbasan
• Edu Wiki Camp 2023 - together in Sremski Karlovci
• PhilWiki Community promotes language preservation and cultural heritage advocacies at ADNU
• PunjabWiki Education Program: A Wikipedia Adventure in Punjab
• WikiConference on Education ignites formation of Wikimedia communities
• Wikimedia Estonia talked about education at CEE meeting in Tbilisi
• Wikimedia in Brazil is going to be a book
• Wikipedian Editor Project: Arabic Sounds Workshop 2023

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The Signpost: 20 November 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• In the media: Propaganda and photos, lunatics and a lunar backup

• News and notes: Update on Wikimedia's financial health

• Traffic report: If it bleeds, it leads

• Recent research: Canceling disputes as the real function of ArbCom

• Wikimania: Wikimania 2024 scholarships

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The Signpost: 4 December 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Beeblebrox ejected from Arbitration Committee following posts on Wikipediocracy

• In the media: Turmoil on Hebrew Wikipedia, grave dancing, Olga's impact and inspiring Bhutanese nuns

• Disinformation report: "Wikipedia and the assault on history"

• In focus: Tens of thousands of freely available sources flagged

• Comix: Bold comics for a new age

• Essay: I am going to die

• Featured content: Real gangsters move in silence

• Traffic report: And it's hard to watch some cricket, in the cold November Rain

• Humour: Mandy Rice-Davis Applies

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A barnstar!

The Supporter Barnstar Thank you for supporting the Capacity Exchange project as an Advisory Committee member in 2023. Your participation is vital to our activities. May the exchange continue next year.

AInacio (WMB) (talk) 22:57, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

@AInacio (WMB) thank you and Happy New Year! -- Zblace (talk) 21:44, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

This Month in Education: November 2023

This Month in Education

Volume 12 • Issue 9 • November 2023

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In This Issue

• 4th WikiUNAM Editathon: Community knowledge strengthens education
• Edit-a-thon at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Santa Casa de São Paulo
• EduWiki Nigeria Community: Embracing Digital Learning Through Wikipedia
• Evening Wikischool offers Czech seniors further education on Wikipedia
• Expansion of Wikipedia Education Program through Student Associations at Iranian Universities
• Exploring Wikipedia through Wikiclubs and the Wikeys board game in Albania
• First anniversary of the game Wikeys
• Involve visiting students in education programs
• Iranian Students as Wikipedians: Using Wikipedia to Teach Research Methodology and Encyclopedic Writing
• Kiwix4Schools Nigeria: Bridging Knowledge Gap through Digital Literacy
• Lire wikipedia en classe à Djougou au Bénin
• Tyap Wikimedians Zaria Outreach
• Art Outreach at Aje Comprehensive Senior High School 1st November 2023, Lagos Mainland
• PhilWiki Community holds a meet-up to advocate women empowerment

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General Assembly LSP 2024

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) 16:26, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

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

The Signpost: 24 December 2023

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• Special report: Did the Chinese Communist Party send astroturfers to sabotage a hacktivist's Wikipedia article?

• News and notes: The Italian Public Domain wars continue, Wikimedia RU set to dissolve, and a recap of WLM 2023

• In the media: Consider the humble fork

• Discussion report: Arabic Wikipedia blackout; Wikimedians discuss SpongeBob, copyrights, and AI

• In focus: Liquidation of Wikimedia RU

• Technology report: Dark mode is coming

• Recent research: "LLMs Know More, Hallucinate Less" with Wikidata

• Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols

• Comix: Lollus lmaois 200C tincture

• Crossword: when the crossword is sus

• Traffic report: What's the big deal? I'm an animal!

• From the editor: A piccy iz worth OVAR 9000!!!11oneone! wordz ^_^

• Apocrypha: Local editor discovered 1,380 lost subheadings in ancient Signpost scrolls. And what he found was shocking.

• Humour: Guess the joke contest

• BJAODN: Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - December 2023 Newsletter

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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Membership renewal

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)

I did and thank you for reminder! Zblace (talk) 18:26, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

General Assembly les sans pagEs Feb 7th 2024

Dear members of the user group des sans pagEs,

Our general meeting will take place on 7 February online. As a member of the user group, you can attend this AGM by joining the association here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/134fW1N1yuQfsHURBfr8Moa3eAr3TBTzPoWEXqCCTrkg/viewform?edit_requested=true You will need to pay a membership fee to join the association, and your membership will be validated by the committee as soon as payment is received by bank transfer.

The membership fee is CHF 200 for external members who are not involved in the project. For volunteers who give their time to the project, the price is free according to their means. The indicative fee, based on what is charged by national chapters, varies between 12 euros for France and 50 Swiss francs for Switzerland. Natacha LSP (talk) 18:19, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

@Natacha LSP thank you for info I will try to remain active in voluntary actions from time to time, but would not be joining AGM as I can not really follow French and it would not be fair that I vote. -- Zblace (talk) 18:25, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Thank you @Zblace for your answer ǃ Warm regards, Natacha LSP (talk) Natacha LSP (talk) 16:26, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 January 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• From the editor: NINETEEN MORE YEARS! NINETEEN MORE YEARS!

• Special report: Public Domain Day 2024

• Technology report: Wikipedia: A Multigenerational Pursuit

• News and notes: In other news ... see ya in court!

• In focus: The long road of a featured article candidate

• In the media: What is plagiarism? Oklahoma Disneyland? Reaching a human being at Wikipedia?

• WikiProject report: WikiProjects Israel and Palestine

• Obituary: Anthony Bradbury

• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2023

• Crossword: everybody gangsta till the style sheets start cascading

• Comix: Conflict resolution

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CEE Newsletter - January 2024 Issue Now Available!

Good evening,

We're excited to announce the release of the January 2024 issue of the CEE Newsletter! This edition is filled with captivating stories, community highlights, and collaborative achievements from across Central and Eastern Europe region in the Wikimedia movement.

In This Issue:

• CEE Hub and WMF Updates: Explore the latest from the Wikimedia Foundation with the Talking 2024 series and insights into the impacts on children participating in Wikimedia projects. Additionally, discover CEE Hub's plans for 2024 as outlined in the recently approved grant proposal named Stronger CEE Hub
• Highlights from CEE Communities: From the Georgian Wikipedia's 20th birthday celebration to the Wiki Loves EuroPride event in Albania, delve into the vibrant activities of our diverse communities. Journey through time with the celebration of Czech Wikipedia's founder and the resilience of Ukrainian Wikipedia editors. Explore the outcomes of Wiki Loves Earth 2023 and Wikimedia Czech Republic's presence at the Archives, Libraries, Museums in the Digital World 2023 conference.
• Community Initiatives and Beyond: Read about the unique efforts of the CEE Youth Group and the unification of GLAM Macedonia and Shared Knowledge into Wikimedia MKD.
• Looking Ahead: Anticipate the 2024 Wikimedia Hackathon in Tallinn, Estonia, and gain insights from Marija Mihajlova's report on the Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2023.

You can read the full newsletter here. We hope you enjoy the inspiring stories and achievements showcased by our vibrant CEE communities.

Happy reading and here's to another year of Wikimedia excellence in the CEE region!

Best regards,

Jan Beránek
Editor-in-chief
Wikimedia CEE Newsletter

15:55, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 January 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Wikipedian Osama Khalid celebrated his 30th birthday in jail

• Opinion: Until it happens to you

• Disinformation report: How paid editors squeeze you dry

• In the media: Katherine Maher new NPR CEO, go check Wikipedia, race in the race

• In focus: The long road of a featured article candidate, part 2

• Recent research: Croatian takeover was enabled by "lack of bureaucratic openness and rules constraining [admins]"

• Comix: We've all got to start somewhere

• Traffic report: DJ, gonna burn this goddamn house right down

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2024 Newsletter

This is our twenty-eighth newsletter.

User group news

• We have submitted our 2023 annual report.
• Upcoming meeting: on 9 February, we'll have a call about roles and responsibilities in the user group. This is an attempt to make more opportunities to engage more of the user groups members in its activities. If you want to help out in some way, but don't know how, this is a meeting for you to get help creating that opportunity. If you know how you would like to help, but don't know how to get started, this is also the meeting for you.

Other news

• New Wikiproject for Climate Change on Basque Wikipedia: Wikiproiektu Klima Aldaketa
• Climate Justice, Digital Rights and Indigenous Voices international Wikimedia event in Huaraz, Peru 2024: Engagement Survey (closes 2 Feb)

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This Month in Education: January 2024

This Month in Education

Volume 13 • Issue 1 • January 2024

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In This Issue

• Cross-Continental Wikimedia Activities: A Dialogue between Malaysia and Estonia
• Czech programme SWW in 2023 – how have we managed to engage students
• Extending Updates on Wikipedia in Education – Elbasan, Albania
• Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Teacher’s guide – now available in Bulgarian language
• Summer students at Auckland Museum
• WikiDunong: EduWiki Initiatives in the Philippines Project
• Wikimedia Armenia's Educational Workshops
• Wikimedia Foundation publishes its first Child Rights Impact Assessment

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The Signpost: 13 February 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Wikimedia Russia director declared "foreign agent" by Russian gov; EU prepares to pile on the papers

• Disinformation report: How low can the scammers go?

• Gallery: Before and After: Why you don't need to touch grass to dramatically improve images of flora and fauna

• In the media: Speaking in tongues, toeing the line, and dressing the part

• Serendipity: Is this guy the same as the one who was a Nazi?

• Traffic report: Griselda, Nikki, Carl, Jannik and two types of football

• Crossword: Our crossword to bear

• Comix: Strongly

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The Signpost: 2 March 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Wikimedia enters US Supreme court hearings as "the dolphin inadvertently caught in the net"

• Recent research: Images on Wikipedia "amplify gender bias"

• In the media: The Scottish Parliament gets involved, a wikirace on live TV, and the Foundation's CTO goes on record

• Obituary: Vami_IV

• Traffic report: Supervalentinefilmbowlday

• WikiCup report: High-scoring WikiCup first round comes to a close

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - February 2024 Newsletter

This is our twenty-ninth newsletter.

User group news

• On 9 February, we had a user group meeting on roles and responsibilities (minutes)
• Upcoming user group meeting 17 March

Other news

• Wiki Loves Earth: Reminder that if you want to organize a local competition, it is time to get started. (SDG 15 and 14)
• Wiki for Human Rights: Reminder that if you would like to organize a local event, there is support available. (SDG 10)
• Study: Using Wikipedia Pageview Data to Investigate Public Interest in Climate Change at a Global Scale (SDG 13)

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This Month in Education: February 2024

This Month in Education

Volume 13 • Issue 2 • February 2024

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In This Issue

• 2 new courses in Students Write Wikipedia Starting this February
• More two wiki-education partnerships
• Open Education Week 2024 in Mexico
• Reading Wikipedia in Bolivia, the community grows
• Wiki Education Philippines promotes OERs utilization
• Wiki Loves Librarians, Kaduna
• Wiki Workshop 2024 CfP – Call for Papers Research track

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The Signpost: 29 March 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• Technology report: Millions of readers still seeing broken pages as "temporary" disabling of graph extension nears its second year

• Interview: Interview on Wikimedia Foundation fundraising and finance strategy

• Special report: 19-page PDF accuses Wikipedia of bias against Israel, suggests editors be forced to reveal their real names, and demands a new feature allowing people to view the history of Wikipedia articles

• Op-Ed: Wikipedia in the age of personality-driven knowledge

• Recent research: "Newcomer Homepage" feature mostly fails to boost new editors

• News and notes: Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter ratified

• In the media: "For me it’s the autism": AARoard editors on the fork more traveled

• Traffic report: He rules over everything, on the land called planet Dune

• Humour: Letters from the editors

• Comix: Layout issue

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Work in progress :)

Simple Charter - for comment –SJ talk  18:51, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 April 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• In the media: Censorship and wikiwashing looming over RuWiki, edit wars over San Francisco politics and another wikirace on live TV

• News and notes: A sigh of relief for open access as Italy makes a slight U-turn on their cultural heritage reproduction law

• WikiConference report: WikiConference North America 2023 in Toronto recap

• WikiProject report: WikiProject Newspapers (Not WP:NOTNEWS)

• Recent research: New survey of over 100,000 Wikipedia users

• Traffic report: O.J., cricket and a three body problem

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This Month in Education: March 2024

This Month in Education

Volume 13 • Issue 3 • March 2024

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In This Issue

• Reading Wikipedia in the classroom, Kaduna
• Reading Wikipedia in Ukraine – the course for educators is now available on demand
• Wiki Movement Brazil will once again support the Brazilian Linguistics Olympiad
• Wikipedia within the Education Setting in Albania

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - April 2024 Newsletter

This is our thirtieth newsletter covering March and April 2024. This issue has news related to SDGs 13, 14 and 15.

User group news

• * Upcoming user group meeting 19 May

Other news

• Wikipedia Signpost highlighted five papers about climate change editing. (SDG 13)
• On Wikidata, a model for documenting green house gas emissions has been created. (SDG 13)
• An update from the Wikipedian in Residence at the Environment Protection Authority in Victoria, Australia.
• WikiAcción Perú organized a training session: "Climate Change Actions and Wikimedia Movement" (SDG 13)
• WikiForHumanRights organized a session: "Adding Sustainability Perspectives to Wikivoyage"

Events

• Wiki Loves Earth, the international photo contest of protected nature, starts in May. (SDG 14 & 15)
• Wiki For Climate Change 2024 - Maghreb region starts in May. (SDG 13)

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This Month in Education: April 2024

This Month in Education

Volume 13 • Issue 4 • April 2024

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In This Issue

• EduWiki Updates From Uganda
• Good news from Bolivia: Reading Wikipedia Program continues in 2024
• Hearing Health Project: Impactful partnership with Wiki Movement Brazil
• Wikimedia Spain, Amical Wikimedia and the University of Valencia develop Wikipedia educational project

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The Signpost: 16 May 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Democracy in action: multiple elections

• Special report: Will the new RfA reform come to the rescue of administrators?

• Arbitration report: Ruined temples for posterity to ponder over – arbitration from '22 to '24

• In the media: Deadnames on the French Wikipedia, and a duel between Russian wikis

• Op-Ed: Wikidata to split as sheer volume of information overloads infrastructure

• Comix: Generations

• Traffic report: Crawl out through the fallout, baby

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - May 2024 Newsletter

This is our thirtyfirst newsletter, covering May 2024. This issue has news related to SDGs 13, 14 and 15.

User group news

• Upcoming: User group meeting, 16 June
• Mini report from the Wikimedia Summit 2024
• User group representative interviewed by Wikipediapodden at Wikimedia Summit (commons)
• Minutes from user group meeting in May

Other news

• Reflecting _Women For Sustainability Africa Arts + Feminism #Her Voice Campaign 2023
• Macedonia report: Climate change and GLAM (SDG 13)
• Biodiversity Heritage Library April monthly highlights (SDG 14 & 15)
• WikiProject Biodiversity featured in Nature Africa (SDG 14 & 15)
• Wikimedia UK releases a video about their climate focus (SDG 13)

Events

• Wiki Loves Earth, the international photo contest of protected nature, continues in some countries. (SDG 14 & 15)

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The Signpost: 8 June 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation publishes its Form 990 for fiscal year 2022-2023

• Technology report: New Page Patrol receives a much-needed software upgrade

• Deletion report: The lore of Kalloor

• In the media: National cable networks get in on the action arguing about what the first sentence of a Wikipedia article ought to say

• News from the WMF: Progress on the plan — how the Wikimedia Foundation advanced on its Annual Plan goals during the first half of fiscal year 2023-2024

• Opinion: Public response to the editors of Settler Colonial Studies

• Recent research: ChatGPT did not kill Wikipedia, but might have reduced its growth

• Featured content: We didn't start the wiki

• Essay: No queerphobia

• Special report: RetractionBot is back to life!

• Traffic report: Chimps, Eurovision, and the return of the Baby Reindeer

• Comix: The Wikipediholic Family

• Humour: Wikipedia rattled by sophisticated cyberattack of schoolboy typing "balls" in infobox

• Concept: Palimpsestuous

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This Month in Education: May 2024

This Month in Education

Volume 13 • Issue 5 • May 2024

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In This Issue

• Albania - Georgia Wikimedia Cooperation 2024
• Aleksandër Xhuvani University Editathon in Elbasan
• Central Bicol State University of Agriculture LitFest features translation and article writing on Wikipedia
• Empowering Youth Council in Bulqiza through editathons
• We left a piece of our hearts at Arhavi
• Wiki Movimento Brasil at Tech Week and Education Speaker Series
• Wikimedia MKD trains new users in collaboration with MYLA

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

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 03:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - June 2024 Newsletter

This is our thirtysecond newsletter, covering June 2024. This issue has news related to SDGs 3, 13, 14, 15 and 16.

User group news

• User group vote on the adoption of the Movement Charter (closes 7 July 23.59 UTC)
• Upcoming user group meeting 21 July
• User group meeting held in June - minutes
• The group was featured in the latest WikiAfrica Hour: #36: Does the Wikimedia movement contribute to the SDGs?

Other news

• Stories from the anti-disinformation repository: How WikiProject COVID-19 and other Wikimedia initiatives counter health disinformation (SDG 3)
• Environment Centre Northern Territory Wikipedian in Residence (SDG 15)
• With AI can we increase transparency of companies' carbon footprints (in Swedish). Op-ed that mentions that the greenhouse gas emissions of the top 150 companies on the Stockholm stock exchange has been uploaded to Wikidata. The model is documented on WikiProject Climate Change on Wikidata. (SDG 13)
• Another Year in Review: Where is Wikimedia in the Climate Crisis? Seeing the impact of Wikimedia Projects (SDG 13)
• 46 scholars, self-advocates bring knowledge to Wikipedia’s disability healthcare content (SDG 3)
• Wikimedia Sverige publishes their 2023 climate impact report (in Swedish) (SDG 13)
• WikiProject Govdirectory has started weekly collaboration on countries (SDG 16)

Events

• Wikimedia chapters and groups organise the first Sharks and Rays Wikimarathon (29 June, but edits in the weeks after are welcome) (SDG 14)

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The Signpost: 4 July 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: WMF board elections and fundraising updates

• Special report: Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification vote underway, new Council may surpass power of Board

• In focus: How the Russian Wikipedia keeps it clean despite having just a couple dozen administatrors

• Discussion report: Wikipedians are hung up on the meaning of Madonna

• In the media: War and information in war and politics

• Sister projects: On editing Wikisource

• Obituary: Hanif Al Husaini, Salazarov and Hyacinth

• Opinion: Etika: a Pop Culture Champion

• Gallery: Spokane Willy's photos

• Op-Ed: Why you should not vote in the 2024 WMF BoT elections

• Crossword: On a day of independence, beat crosswords into crossploughshares

• Humour: A joke

• Cobwebs: Counting to a billion — manuscripts don't burn

• Recent research: Is Wikipedia Politically Biased? Perhaps

• Traffic report: Talking about you and me, and the games people play

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Reminder to vote now to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter

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) 15:23, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

This Month in Education: June 2024

This Month in Education

Volume 13 • Issue 6 • June 2024

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In This Issue

• From a Language Teacher to a Library Support Staff: The Wikimedia Effect
• 5th WikiEducation 2024 Conference in Mexico
• Lviv hosted a spring wikischool for Ukrainian high school students
• First class of teachers graduated from Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom 2024
• Empowering Digital Citizenship: Unlocking the Power of Open Knowledge with Participants of the LIFE Legacy
• Wiki Movimento Brazil supports online and in-person courses and launches material to guide educators in using Wikimedia projects
• Where to find images for free? Webinar for librarians answered many questions
• Wikimedia MKD and University of Goce Delchev start a mutual collaboration

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

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 03:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC

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

The Signpost: 22 July 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• Discussion report: Internet users flock to Wikipedia to debate its image policy over Trump raised-fist photo

• News and notes: Wikimedia community votes to ratify Movement Charter; Wikimedia Foundation opposes ratification

• News from the WMF: Wikimedia Foundation Board resolution and vote on the proposed Movement Charter

• Essay: Reflections on editing and obsession

• In the media: What's on Putin's fork, the court's docket, and in Harrison's book?

• Obituary: JamesR

• Crossword: Vaguely bird-shaped crossword

• Humour: Joe Biden withdraws RfA, Donald Trump selects co-nom

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CEE Newsletter - July 2024 Issue Now Available!

Good morning,

We're excited to announce the release of the July 2024 issue of the CEE Newsletter! Once again we have captivating stories, community highlights, and collaborative achievements from across the Central and Eastern Europe region in the Wikimedia movement.

In This Issue:

• International Updates: Stay informed with the "Wikimedia International Update Corner", covering key developments, events and initiatives in the international Wikimedia space for 2024.
• CEE in the News: Discover notable mentions of CEE region activities in "This month in Education" and "This month in GLAM" newsletters.
• Reader's Digest: Catch up on the latest insights and stories from around the globe with the "Reader’s Digest".
• Open calls and consultations: Voice your opinion! These topics are open to discussion. Also, please take a look at the open calls and apply!
• Updates from Communities: Learn about the successful second quarter of Wikimedia MKD and the first half of 2024 of Wikimedia Ukraine, read more about the Third Ionian Wikithon 2024, review activities in the past months of the Wikimedia Serbia, read the report from the event in the Buffer Zone on Cyprus, discover the new area of focus for Wikimedia Poland, and many more community updates.

We hope you enjoy this issue and find inspiration in the diverse stories and impactful work being done by our CEE communities. Thank you for being a part of our journey toward promoting free knowledge and collaboration.

You can read the full newsletter here. We hope you enjoy the inspiring stories and achievements showcased by our vibrant CEE communities.

Happy reading!

Toni Ristovski on behalf of the CEE Newsletter team --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:30, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - July 2024 Newsletter

This is our thirty third newsletter, covering July 2024. This issue has news related to SDGs 5, 10, 13, and 16.

User group news

• User group meeting held in July, minutes
• Next user group meeting will be 18 August

Other news

• Climate change editahon and workshop in Macedonia (SDG 13)
• WikiForHumanRights in Nigeria 2024 Campaign Virtual Launch (SDG 10&16)
• What we Learned from Wiki Women In Red @8 Campaign 2023 Women for Sustainability Africa (SDG 5)
• Ghanaian Wikipedians set to educate students on Open Climate (SDG 13)
• Using Wikipedia as a Tool for Climate Action (SDG 13)

Events

• 5th August, m:Event:Wiki-Green_Conference_2024 Wiki-Green Conference (SDG 13)
• 7-10 August, Wikimania - All SDG related sessions
• 7-9 November, Justicia climática, voces indígenas y plataformas Wikimedia (SDG 13)

Participate

• Share an example of a successful WikiProject or topical collaboration in this on-wiki survey

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The Signpost: 14 August 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• In the media: Portland pol profile paid for from public purse

• Recent research: STORM: AI agents role-play as "Wikipedia editors" and "experts" to create Wikipedia-like articles, a more sophisticated effort than previous auto-generation systems

• Discussion report: Twitter marks the spot

• News and notes: Another Wikimania has concluded

• Special report: Nano or just nothing: Will nano go nuclear?

• Opinion: HouseBlaster's RfA debriefing

• Traffic report: Ball games, movies, elections, but nothing really weird

• Humour: I'm proud to be a template

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - August 2024 Newsletter

This is our thirty fourth newsletter. This issue has news related to SDGs 5, 11, 15, and 16.

User group news

• Next user group meeting, 15 September, will be focused on starting to develop a strategy for the group. If you cannot attend, you can leave your input on the ideas page.
• User group meeting held in August (minutes)

Other news

• Report from WikiProject International Botanical Congress 2024 (SDG 15)
• Meeting for Writing on Femenist Strikes and Wiki for Peace Camp St. Imier (SDG 5 & 16)
• Biodiversity Heritage Library report (SDG 15)
• Wikimania had a lot of SDG related sessions and you can watch them back now

Events

• Wiki Loves Monuments starts in September (SDG 11)

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The Signpost: 4 September 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: WikiCup enters final round, MCDC wraps up activities, 17-year-old hoax article unmasked

• In the media: AI is not playing games anymore. Is Wikipedia ready?

• Recent research: Simulated Wikipedia seen as less credible than ChatGPT and Alexa in experiment

• News from the WMF: Meet the 12 candidates running in the WMF Board of Trustees election

• Wikimania: A month after Wikimania 2024

• Serendipity: What it's like to be Wikimedian of the Year

• Traffic report: After the gold rush

• Humour: Local man halfway through rude reply no longer able to recall why he hates other editor

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This Month in Education: August 2024

This Month in Education

Volume 13 • Issue 7 • August 2024

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In This Issue

• Cross-Cultural Knowledge Sharing: Wikipedia's New Frontier at University of Tehran
• Let's Read Wikipedia in Bolivia reaches teachers in Cochabamba
• Results of the 2023 “Wikipedia for School” Contest in Ukraine
• Edu Wiki Camp in Serbia, 2024
• Wikimedia Human Rights Month this year engaged schools in large amount
• Strengthening Education Programs at Wikimania 2024: A Global Leap in Collaborative Learning
• Wiki Education programs are featured in a scientific outreach magazine, and Wiki Movimento Brasil offers training for researchers in the Amazon
• Wiki Movimento Brasil aims to adapt a game about Wikipedia, organize an academic event for scientific dissemination, and host the XXXIII Wiki-Education Workshop

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The Signpost: 26 September 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• In the media: Indian courts order Wikipedia to take down name of crime victim, and give up names of editors

• Serendipity: A Wikipedian at the 2024 Paralympics

• Opinion: asilvering's RfA debriefing

• News and notes: Are you ready for admin elections?

• Gallery: Are Luddaites defending the English Wikipedia?

• Recent research: Article-writing AI is less "prone to reasoning errors (or hallucinations)" than human Wikipedia editors

• Traffic report: Jump in the line, rock your body in time

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - September 2024 Newsletter

This is our thirty-fifth newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 13.

User group news

• User group meeting held in September on strategy for the group

Other news

• Building a sustainable Wikimedia movement: A contribution from the CEE region, presentation at CEE meeting. (YouTube)
• All About Wiki-Green Conference 2024 (SDG 13)

Events

• Course: Global Approaches to Climate Finance by WikiEdu (SDG 13)

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The Signpost: 19 October 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• News and notes: One election's end, another election's beginning

• Recent research: "As many as 5%" of new English Wikipedia articles "contain significant AI-generated content", says paper

• In the media: Off to the races! Wikipedia wins!

• Contest: A WikiCup for the underdeveloped world

• Traffic report: A scream breaks the still of the night

• Book review: The Editors

• Humour: The Newspaper Editors

• Crossword: Spilled Coffee Mug

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - October 2024 Newsletter

This is our thirty-sixth newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 3, 5, 13 and 15.

User group news

• Upcoming meeting, 24 November, 17.00 UTC

Other news

• Talk at WikiIndaba: Wikimedian collaboration in human knowledge: Wiki For Climate Change in the Maghreb region (SDG 13)
• Championing Inclusion in the Wikimedia Movement: Africa Wiki Women Presentation at the Wiki Niger Conference (SDG 5)
• Mountains, Birds and Lakes: Wiki Loves Earth 2024 – Central Asia Edition (SDG 15)

Events

• November 6, 12 and 21: Climate Change & Health in the UK - Wikipedia workshop (SDG 3 and 13)

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The Signpost: 6 November 2024

News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper

• From the editors: Editing Wikipedia should not be a crime

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation shares ANI lawsuit updates; first admin elections appoint eleven sysops; first admin recalls opened; temporary accounts coming soon?

• In the media: An old scrimmage, politics and purported libel

• Special report: Wikipedia editors face litigation, censorship

• Gallery: Why you should take more photos and upload them

• In focus: Questions and answers about the court case

• Traffic report: Twisted tricks or tempting treats?

• Technology report: Wikimedia tech, the Asian News International case, and the ultra-rare BLACKLOCK

• Humour: Man quietly slinks away from talk page argument after realizing his argument dumb, wrong

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This Month in Education: October 2024

This Month in Education

Volume 13 • Issue 8 • October 2024

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In This Issue

• CBSUA Wiki Education turns 1 year
• 7th Senior WikiTown took place in Becov nad Teplou, Czech Republic
• Edit-a-thon about Modern Architecture in Kosovo
• Empowering Digital Literacy through Wikimedia in South Sudan
• Many new articles and contributions in September and October for Wikimedia MKD
• New Record: 5 Events in Municipal Library within a Month
• Wiki-Education programs in Brazil are centered around the Wikidata and Wikisource platforms
• WikiChallenge African Schools wins the “Open Pedagogy” Award 2024 from OE Global
• Wikipedia helps in improving cognitive skills
• Wikipedia in Graduate Studies: Expanding Research Impact
• WiLMa PH establishes a Wiki Club

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