Amnesty and Wikipedia/How to get involved as a Wikimedia affiliate or volunteer
(This isn't a pretty page, but I'll try to make it more attractive soon)
The basics
- Amnesty International Sections around the world are looking for local Wikimedians to support their volunteers editing about human rights.
- This will involve working with your local Amnesty/Amnistia/Anistia section to help them understand how to work with Wikipedia and possibly other Wikimedia projects.
The basics would be some meetings and discussions, providing a bit of training or translation/localisation, and helping run a training session/editathon with them. But you can develop these relationships as extensively as you want.
Why?
- It offers an opportunity to improve the huge subject of human rights across Wikipedias.
- You will establish a relationship with your local Amnesty section and another large, volunteer-driven movement.
- We can bring Amnesty volunteers to Wikimedia, and help them to focus some of their enthusiasm and energy on improving a specific area of Wikipedia across multiple languages, and to continue doing this.
How?
Simple.
- See the list of interested sections below, as well as the expected date of activity
- Contact me at stuart.prior@wikimedia.org.uk or User:battleofalma or find me at Wikimedia Conference right now. I will try to answer any specific questions, explain in more detail, and be able put you in contact with your local section
THANKS
Section | Participation | When do you plan to hold the event/s? | Number of participants | Language(s) | City/Cities of event |
Amnesty Cote D'Ivoire | Y | ||||
Amnesty Mali | Y | ||||
AI Nigeria | y | May 19/20 | depending on an agreed number of supporters and activists | English | Abuja |
Amnesty Argentina | Y | ||||
Amnesty Brazil | Y | May 19 and 20 | Portuguese | São Paulo | |
Amnesty Peru | Y | Spanish | Lima | ||
AI Mexico | Y | ||||
Amnesty Uruguay | Y | Spanish | Montevideo | ||
AI Paraguay | y | May 19 or 20 | Around 25 or more | Spanish | Asuncion |
Amnesty Australia | y | English | |||
Amnesty New Zealand | Y | ||||
Amnesty Indonesia | Y | ||||
AI Philippines | y | May 19 or 20 | Around 10-15 | English | Metro Manila |
AI Malaysia | y | May | TBC | English | Kuala Lumpur |
Amnesty Belgium (fl) | Y | May 20 | max 20 | Dutch, English | Brussels |
Amnesty Finland | Y | Finnish | |||
Amnesty Denmark | Y | ||||
Amnesty Ireland | Y/later | Autumn 2018- possible when other s/s like France and Austria are doing- perhaps the second lot could coordinate? | 5-10 | English | Dublin |
Amnesty Germany | Y | ||||
Amnesty Netherlands | Y | May 19th | This is really hard to estimate as of now, also since it's aslo still hard for us to grasp the size of the project. Let's roughly say something between 30 and 150 participants for the whole event. | Preferrably focusing on the Dutch Wikipedia edition, but can work in English, too. | Amnesty House, Amsterdam |
Amnesty Norway | Y | ||||
Amnesty Poland | Y | Warsaw | |||
Amnesty Slovakia | Y | 20 May | 5-10 | English, Slovak | Bratislava |
Amnesty Switzerland | Y/Sunday | ||||
Amnesty UK | Y | Sunday 20 May | |||
AI UK - Scotland office | Y | ||||
Amnesty Ukraine | Y/Saturday | 14-19th of May | It will depend on the total number of events we will host - one big in Kyiv or several, also in the regions | Ukrainian, Russian | Kyiv, may be also some cities in the regions |
AI Spain | y | May 19/20 | It will depend on the contents that we're expected to upload. We're waiting for further information from the IS | Spanish | Madrid |
AI France | y/later | October | French | Paris | |
Amnesty Austria | y/later | ||||
Amnesty Algeria | Y | Algiers | |||
Amnesty India | y | May 19/20 | Approx 20 | English | Amnesty India office, Bangalore |