Let's Connect Newsletter/Archive/2023/Issue 5

Let’s Connect Newsletter Issue 5

What is happening in Let’s Connect this month

Welcome to the April issue of the Let’s Connect monthly newsletter. It has been a busy month! This month, we hosted 6 Learnings (🫨) and partnered with Creative Commons & Wiki Loves Living Heritage to host their “Ethics of Open Sharing” webinar.

🫵 We also presented Let’s Connect in the Wikimedia Foundation monthly staff meeting. Here is the video we put together to show some Let’s Connect voices! Here is the presentation we made. All these are a product of YOUR participation, kindness and openness to share and learn from each other.

We also got accepted to lead a session on Let’s Connect during this month's EduWiki Conference in Belgrade from May 26 - 28, 2023. 🎓

We got invited by the AFLIA to present Let’s Connect during their Wikidata for African Librarians course on May 3. We presented how African Librarians can join Let’s Connect and take advantage of its peer learning opportunities.

Did you miss Learning Clinics - no worries!

Guidelines, best practices, and documented learnings related to travel scholarships with Wikimedia Australia. Find the recording here and the presentation and toolkit.
Basic Lexeme with Asaf Bartov. Find the recording here and the presentation.
Effective strategies for retaining and re-engaging new editors/participants during and after the WFHR campaign with Wikimedia Serbia and the WMF Growth Team. Find the recording here and the presentation.
Practices to support Wiki Loves Earth campaign organisers in partnership with the CEE Hub, Wikimedia Ukraine, Wikimedia Turkey and Wikimedia Macedonia. Find the recording here, toolkit and presentation.
Key tools for organised work with Wiki in Africa. Find the recording here and the session plan here. For further support on each tool, check out this page.
Strategic Planning as a Collaborative Process with Wiki Movimento Brasil. Find the recording here and the slide presentation.
Ethics of Open Sharing with Creative Commons & Wiki Loves Living Heritage. Recording here.

We want to thank all our wonderful and diverse sharers in the month of April! For translated materials, please review our NEW Let’s Connect resources page.

What Learning Clinics can you start getting excited about?

Embedding equity in collective practice with Art + Feminism
On May, 16, 15:00-17:00 UTC, Join Kira Wisniewski and Melissa Tamani
from Art+Feminism for this Learning Clinic; via zoom.

What is this Clinic for? Learn about Art+Feminism’s approach to centring equity, particularly when working with teams and volunteers around the world, with a focus on creating community care and support.

Who is this Learning Clinic for? To make our session great, please read the following: Art + Feminism's community care statement and the equity statement, and our definitions document.

Register here. The link and Google calendar invite will be sent after you register. The main language of the session will be English and Spanish, with French and Portuguese interpretations.

Other learning opportunities in the Movement

Happening this week!! 👀

Art+Feminism Celebration Fund: Applications are still open for the Celebration Fund, an opportunity for organisers to produce an openly licensed resource that showcases “how you do Art+Feminism.” Apply before the second deadline on May 15th, 2023. The second round of applicants will be notified on May 31st, 2023. 🔗 Application Link.

Queering Wikipedia is here! Visit Meta for the links to ✨Registration✨ and the Schedule: QW 2023 Meta Page.

Wiki Loves Earth is happening! Be part of the campaign here.

News from Movement Strategy

Catching up with the Movement Strategy Drafting Committee: MCDC members organised three community conversations, two open and one with Wikimedia Stewards. Here are the recordings. In July, the MCDC hopes to share crucial sections of the charter – such as those about the Global Council, hubs, and roles and responsibilities in the movement. You can explore a lot more on wiki.

Story from Let’s Connect

On 27th-29th May 2023, two Let’s Connect working group members, Jessica Stephenson and Chinmayee Mishra, attended WikiConference India and shared the works of the Let's Connect Team with the conference participants. The active participation across the globe, the relevance of Let’s Connect’s motto with the conference's theme, and the impact of this peer learning program were shared there.

The link to the presentation can be found here: Let's connect WCI 2023

Feedback from WCI participants :

Jnanaranjan Sahu (Wikimedian-India): I knew a little about the Let's Connect program before. Thanks to Chinmayee and Jessica for that wonderful session which brought great clarity regarding the program and its various aspects. It's an impactful idea, and I hope it can bring more Wikimedians to one place to learn and share skills, ultimately bringing more value to the whole community. You both were energetic, and the presentation was excellent. Hope to see you again soon.
I will definitely be a part of this program.

Anonymous Wikimedian from South Asia: The discussion about the Let's Connect peer learning program was impressive and enlightening during WCI. I was amazed by the spirit and energy Jessica and Chinmayee brought onto the stage and among the audience. The team is doing great work indeed, which is helpful for us in many ways in the movement. My best wishes to the team, and looking forward to many more learning clinics & program representations at other conferences.