Let's Connect Newsletter/Archive/2023/Issue 8/dtp
Let’s Connect Newsletter Issue 8
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What is happening in Let’s Connect this month
Welcome to July’s issue of the Let’s Connect monthly newsletter.
The last month was a rather insightful month for us at Let’s Connect. We hosted 3 Open Learning Clinics around key issues that organisers and affiliates find important in volunteer retention, managing communications crisis and community health. We also held 3 Regional Learning Clinics focused on learning from grantee reporting and collectively thinking of regional challenges and opportunities, particularly about how to measure impact. There will be two very important training sessions to learn how to use a tool to track editor retention. Check out the other learning opportunities below to join!
Tulan diti mangangat dika do momonosoi iso ahal di osuai, Wikimania Learning tadau klinik di kumoiso nogi dahai mitabang do Leadership Working Group.
Noiduanan no do Learning Clinics - kada kotongob!
- Let's Connect Learning Clinic: Motivating and retaining volunteers with Asaf Bartov. Find this session's resources here: Video recording: in Inggeris, Sepanyol, Perancis, and Portugis. Presentations in .
- Let's Connect Learning Clinic: Thriving as Wikimedians in a good working atmosphere with Christel Steigenberger. Session resources: Video, Audio recording in French, Etherpad.
- Let's Connect Learning Clinic: Communications crisis prevention and management. Find this session's resources here; Video recording (in the session's main language, audio recording (in interpreted languages) and Presentation. WMF Crisis Workshop, Case Study 1, Case Study 2.
- LAC Learning Clinic: Collective Learning around grantee reporting: Partial video recording: Spanish, audio recording for interpreted languages, etherpad with all the session material and notes.
- MENA Learning Clinic: Collective Learning around grantee reporting: Partial video recording: English, etherpad with all the session material and notes.
- Sub-Saharan Africa Learning Clinic: Collective Learning around grantee reporting: Partial video recording: English, French audio, etherpad with all the session material and notes.
Nunu Learning Clinics di tumimpuun ko do gumayat kinawo?
Gisom 30td ogos, aiso no o pinsingilaan klinik mantad dahai id Let’s Connect toi ko' monikid tulan Connectathon dahai; suai ko, momonsoi yahai klinik id Wikimania kotolinahasan id siriba! 🤸♀️🤸♀️🤸♀️
🧠 Let’s Connect om Leadership Development Working Group bobos tomod do mamawara pomilian do Learning Clinics montok Wikimania 2023. Milo ko moi daftar honggo nopo om koinsanai Clinics diti momoguno link Wikimania Learning Clinics! 👏
Kosiwatan do minsingilo id Koguraan diti
Pointilombus po tulan diti!! 👀
- Monotos miampai poingkuro manabpo data montok monuku edito pointindohoi? pinludaan diti nopo nga montok dika!!!!
- Id boros English: Volunteer Supporters Network: Aug 10, 2023, 2 - 3 pm (UTC). Ogumu po kopoilaan om mendaftar .
- In Spanish: Wikiherramientas: Aug 9, 2023, 6-7 pm (UTC), 12 pm - 1 pm (CST) Broadcast live on Youtube.
News mantad Movement Strategy
- The Core Organizing Team would like to invite you to register for Wikimania 2023. You can register for the online event anytime. This year Wikimania will be held in person from 16—19 August at the Suntec Convention Centre and online on Eventyay, an open-source virtual and hybrid event platform.
- From July to September, the Movement Charter Drafting Committee will host a series of community consultations with the Wikimedia movement. Everyone is welcome to share feedback and opinions on the Meta talk page, local community forums, the Movement Strategy Forum, and during community conversations. Regional specialists from the Movement Communications team will distribute invitations to the community venues.
Sorita' mantad Let’s Connect
Ester Bonet: Wikimedia España
I heard about the "Peer Learning Program Let's Connect" in early 2022. I joined the Let’s Connect orientation session in April.
This initial experience was profoundly rewarding, and I immediately grasped that Let’s Connect aligned seamlessly with my learning and improvement needs. I realised that it provided a conducive environment for sharing and acquiring diverse skills that would contribute to my personal development within the Wikimedia community, harmonising perfectly with the Movement Strategy.
Given my previous involvement in other initiatives as a volunteer, I was already acquainted with the concept of peer learning. I held a deep passion for this approach to knowledge acquisition. This learning mode offered me a comfortable and secure setting, extending beyond the mere acquisition of knowledge to encompass practical application, the assimilation of constructive feedback, and contemplation upon what was learned.
This knowledge exchange and transfer process, operating in a horizontal and adaptable dimension among colleagues, volunteers, and fellow community members who share joint missions and confront similar challenges, presented an immensely fulfilling experience for me.
Since 2016, my work as a Wikimedian has been dedicated to bridging gender, organising workshops, edit-a-tons, and delivering talks within feminist contexts to promote female participation. Initially, I considered focusing on sessions related to the gender gap. Still, I quickly realised that virtually all topics somehow applied to my work, motivating me to engage in even more sessions.
I must underscore the program's most impressive aspect, which lies in its focus on presenting practical and contextualised case studies, exploring relevant themes with the necessary depth for their application in diverse settings. In this regard, I have found sessions such as "Identifying and managing team and volunteer burnout" with Natacha Rault and "Motivating and retaining volunteers” with Asaf Bartov to be particularly enriching.
Furthermore, the program's essential emphasis on analyzing both successful and unsuccessful elements is noteworthy. In pursuit of extracting lessons from adverse experiences, I had the honour of co-presenting, along with Florencia Claes, the session titled "Experiences and strategies for dealing with a team crisis."
In this session, as members of a board of directors, we shared a case in which we confronted tensions with a team member and how, despite emotional and financial challenges, the crisis yielded valuable insights that fortified our team.
I wish to convey my sincere gratitude for the tireless efforts of the Let's Connect team in providing interpretation in multiple languages. This step is paramount for fully integrating the community, as expressing concerns and emotions in a foreign language can be frustrating and limiting. Sometimes, one may feel like a child attempting to express oneself, as words fail to capture the intended message fully.
Id perspektif ku, Let’s Connect nokosiliu lansanon di au oontob o gatang do komilaan di manarampas do tantaman di notoguangan ku. Platform diti, nokoilo oku kowonuan di milo maan pisudongo do kontax sosongulun luguan om tematik pinggisaman isai-isai di kaanu manahak pason di kigatang om ponokoguas.
Monikid tadau, oimiyaan oku do pangaan sogu wagu di manarampas koimbulayan wagu di kagayat ginawo do strategi toun 2030. Aanangan oku kasari do mampayat, miagal do otumbayaan oku kaanu do minsingilo toilaan wagu in pointilombus. Mulung po do au oku kaanu rumuba id timpu-kopio, nga bobos oku do nokoilo pangaan nopo nga nokoopi om milo intangan, poinggonop miampai koinsanai kakamot id boros ku. Suai po, mamagatang oku program flexibiliti, di papasaga doho mampayat tumanud kohoroon ku, do au nokosiliu timbagat.
Maan ku poimbulayo' kounsikahan ku di taralom kopio montok goos om komiloon do mintilombus manahak koimayaan kumaa doho miampai karaja di osonong tomod. Mimang no do ikoyu nopo nga tinimungan di nabantug kopio.
Kowonuan di maan sorisido':
- 🔈 Ika nopo nga i mimboros id Wikimania ko' Wikimedia panangbarasan suai di rumikot? Toi ko manu ko no do monginsonong kaabalan nu do mimboros? Intangai iti Tonudon soira sumiliu pancarama di osonong om iti recording pinoburu do Community Development tinimungan id Wikimedia Foundation.