Let's Connect Newsletter/Archive/2023/Issue 15

Let’s Connect Newsletter Issue 15

What is happening in Let’s Connect this month

Welcome to March’s issue of the Let’s Connect monthly newsletter. This Month happens to be Women’s month and we cannot wait to celebrate the amazing work they do in the Wikiverse. Bridging the gender gap on Wikipedia and its sister projects have been a work in progress and we look forward to the numerous activities the Wikimedia communities will come up with.

Did you miss Learning Clinics - no worries!

Let's Connect Learning Clinic: Awareness & Education with Wikimedia Sweden and Wikimedia Indonesia. Find this session's resources here: video recording and Presentation Main deck : WMID Slides , WMSE Slides.
Learning Clinic: Applying for a Rapid Fund Grant in MENA: Find this session's resources here: video recording in Arabic for now for the MENA region as we work on English translation.

What Learning Clinics can you start getting excited about?

Watch this space for exciting and new learning clinics. We also have exciting opportunities to engage us at the Let’s Connect Working Group.

Other learning opportunities in the Movement

February 20 – March 20 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan 2024-25 Collaboration.
March 5 – April 1 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee election: Call for candidates.

News from Movement Strategy

The Wikimedia Foundation Affiliate Strategy process is still ongoing till March 20. Feedback is being invited on proposed requirements for affiliates & user groups recognition.

To provide your feedback, please review the page here, on Meta, and leave comments on the talk page. Alternatively, you can join an open call (February 14 and 28 at 14:00 to 14:30 UTC) or request a conversation as a part of Talking:2024. You can use the Wikimedia Foundation Community Affairs Committee/Talking: 2024#Let’s Talk|Let’s Talk feature to sign up for a time to speak with me and other trustees about this conversation or any other topic regarding the Wikimedia Foundation Board, Movement Strategy, and more.

Story from Let’s Connect

Let's Connect Wikipedia community Kilimanjaro 1st Meeting

On February 16, 2024, an online meeting centred on the Code of Conduct was convened, with 14 participants in attendance and Abubakar Sixbert presiding. Facilitated by Iddy Ninga, a Tanzanian Wikipedia administrator since 2020, the session highlighted several challenges.

These included low participation among Tanzanian Let's Connect members in online meetings, limited awareness of the Code of Conduct, especially among contributors unfamiliar with English-language Meta pages, and language barriers for external participants, particularly those conversing in Swahili.

Proposed solutions included providing data connectivity support for Let's Connect members, inviting and educating active Wikipedia contributors, assigning translation support for English-speaking participants, and launching an Article Translation Program to translate Meta page articles into Swahili. The aim is to enhance participation, awareness, and inclusivity within the Let's Connect community, addressing the challenges identified during the meeting.

Resource to check out:

Recover your edits after power and internet cuts or when a browser accidentally closes or crashes.

For editors using the 2010 wikitext editor, you can now recover your edits when your browser accidentally closes, when there is a crash, and when there is a power or network outage during editing. This new feature is known as Edit Recovery. ‘’Enable the Edit Recovery feature’’ in the user Preferences 'Editing' section

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