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Interest in "conversation" metrics

Hi Lane, I just saw video about your job at UVA and was wondering if you have published anything on how you keep track of how people are reading the content which came from the university and also how you get the metrics you mentioned at 2:38, i.e. "how many people edited the content after someone from this university put it" and how do you extract information about people "objecting" to this content or if stayed long / started a conversation. Sounds like a very interesting approach! Thank you! --Silva Selva (talk) 18:08, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

@Silva Selva: There is a lot of variation in how people do this. Most conversations start with these two tools:

• The Programs & Events Dashboard tracks what a group of editors does and how many people read that content. Instructors often use this for student classes.
• The Pageviews Analysis tool tracks how many people have read any list of Wikipedia articles.

There is no tool which automatically detects when and if someone has removed content from a Wikipedia article. However, I manually checked this for a few classes and described in the below articles that the content stayed for years.

• Improving the Quality of Consumer Health Information on Wikipedia: Case Series
• Why Medical Schools Should Embrace Wikipedia

Yes, conversations happen. There is no automatic way to get reports for them. There are lots of classes with Wikipedia which have encouraged conversations, and we have enough examples to research how this went. No one has done any such research though.

I could say more if you had questions. Thanks for writing. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:03, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

TimeZoneConverter bug?

Did the TimeZoneConverter not work for you? If so, it would be good to leave a report so we don't both use the tool AND work around it. ♥Ainali ^talk_{contributions} 20:42, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

@Ainali: I posted at Talk:Timezoneconverter. Blue Rasberry (talk) 21:47, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

West Bengal Wikimedians open for community request

Hi Bluerasberry!

You are receiving this message because you have signed as a General member of the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group.

Like previous years, we are asking our members again to request for support if they wish to plan and execute Wikimedia projects or activities during next year, which require funding. We are open for such requests until November 30, 2020. Based on the fund requests from the community members, the user group will place Rapid grant proposal to Wikimedia Foundation. If the rapid grant request is approved, funds will be allocated to the community members accordingly.

We can only approve request for volunteers who are from West Bengal and is limited to activities where in some way, West Bengal is included. The decision to approve or disapprove your request will be handled by Representative members of the user group.

Regards,
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(On behalf of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group)

Community Wishlist Survey 2021: Invitation

The 2021 Community Wishlist Survey is now open! This survey is the process where communities decide what the Community Tech team should work on over the next year. We encourage everyone to submit proposals until the deadline on 30 November, or comment on other proposals to help make them better. The communities will vote on the proposals between 8 December and 21 December.

The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. You can write proposals in any language, and we will translate them for you. Thank you, and we look forward to seeing your proposals!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

18:25, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

Sunday November 29 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Take flight with us.

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, and October SWAN meetings, and June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including the recent proposed changes to the Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws, this month we are meeting on Sunday November 29, 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 a number of places have had daylight savings time changes since our last meeting).--Pharos (talk) 01:26, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

WikiConference North America 2020 registration

Thank you for signing up to attend WikiConference North America 2020! If you haven't already, it would be much appreciated if you could also take a minute to register through our form at register.wcna.wiki. While not required, this will help us keep you informed via email, and will also help give us an idea of attendance numbers over the next three days. Thank you, ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 19:07, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey 2021

We invite all registered users to vote on the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. You can vote from now until 21 December for as many different wishes as you want.

In the Survey, wishes for new and improved tools for experienced editors are collected. After the voting, we will do our best to grant your wishes. We will start with the most popular ones.

We, the Community Tech, are one of the Wikimedia Foundation teams. We create and improve editing and wiki moderation tools. What we work on is decided based on results of the Community Wishlist Survey. Once a year, you can submit wishes. After two weeks, you can vote on the ones that you're most interested in. Next, we choose wishes from the survey to work on. Some of the wishes may be granted by volunteer developers or other teams.

We are waiting for your votes. Thank you!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

16:09, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

Please elaborate on the meta page

Hi Lane, could you provide some more context behind the creation of this talk page content for Talk:Movement_Charter? [1] It's User:The Land words, but you're the editor, and it's signed by you, and it seems to come from some other place? Ideally you could explain on the page where it came from. Thanks. -- Fuzheado (talk) 14:50, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

Oh, I think I see what happened. {{user:The Land}} transcluded my userpage. I assume what was meant was [[user:The Land]] to link. I have fixed that.... :) Chris Keating (The Land) (talk) 15:00, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

Aha! That makes sense now. Wow, that was confusing for a while, thanks. :) -- Fuzheado (talk) 14:12, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Sunday January 10 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

Into the blue.

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, and November SWAN meetings, and June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including SWAN input on Interim Global Council and Movement Charter, this month we are meeting on Sunday January 10, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

To start the exchange of ideas on the IGC early, and to help prepare before the SWAN calls, we have set up and invite everyone to participate at this etherpad. If you like a more interactive way of discussing, we have also made a jamboard. Check here for more details.

--Pharos (talk) 14:50, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Share your feedback on the OCR improvements!

Hello, everyone! We (the team responsible for the Community Wishlist Survey) have just launched the project for OCR improvements! With this project, we aim to improve the experience of using OCR tools on Wikisource. Please refer to our project page, which provides a full summary of the project and the main problem areas that we have identified.

We would then love if you could answer the questions below. Your feedback is incredibly important to us and it will directly impact the choices we make. Thank you in advance, and we look forward to reading your feedback!

SGrabarczuk (WMF) 17:48, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Curiosity on the work you do

Dear Lane,

I've looked at the work you do, and I'm both fascinated and perplexed with the work you do. I have looked at your Meta talk pages, but not Wikipedia's due to the large amount of messages you get there, so apologies if you've answered this already.

Basically you are in the School of Data Science, but I don't quite get how "data-science" related is it in the traditional sense. How much of programming is involved? ML? Pure statistics (that would be inferential/Bayesian)? Mathematics (calculus? real analysis?). From the video I've seen about you, it's only some of the first, if at all, but I could be wrong there. Thanks in advance.

Regards, Leaderboard (talk) 21:08, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

@Leaderboard: Thanks for asking, I am trying to build out more models for academic engagement with Wikimedia projects. I myself do not do machine learning research, but instead I facilitate wiki activities for graduate students who do various data science projects. An example project is Research:Automatic Detection of Online Abuse.

We have maybe 20 researchers at this university who have done something with Wikipedia in the past few years. I am scrambling to document examples here and general trends more broadly but eventually this is going to take a long manual. From the Wikicite project in Wikidata here is a Scholia visualization of academic research on Wikipedia.

I could say more. With you being a fellow wiki editor, if you want to talk by video you could email me and we do that. Thanks for your interest. Blue Rasberry (talk) 21:21, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

A little wikiLove for You!

It’s a maze of twisty passages all around here. Sometimes it’s hard to feel appreciated. This Heart-shaped Labyrinth is to say Thank YOU, Wikipedian, for all your hard work!!! from DrMel (talk) 23:35, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

Sunday February 21 Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network meeting

We are a mosiac.

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, and January SWAN meetings and June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates, this month we are meeting on Sunday February 21, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

To help set priorities for the SWAN agenda, and also to help manage which global conversations should be a focus in general, we have set up and invite everyone to participate at this SWAN priorities form. Possible topics include Community Board seats, Interim Global Council, Strategy prioritization follow-up events, Branding, Universal Code of Conduct, Grant strategy, and WMF CEO search. That is a lot of things, which are most important to cover in our upcoming SWAN meeting?

Following the regular call, in SWAN after hours: Wikimedia Meet Jitsi social event with brainstorming for possible Nano Charter ideas, plus any other topics.

--Pharos (talk) 17:53, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

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) 19:34, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

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) 04:12, 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 15:41, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

Hi Lane

Hi Lane, thanks for your interest and your email. I could not find any discussion on those links you passed me. In any case, I again propose that the discussion be done in a public forum and always onwiki. I will modify the initial thread so that it serves to prepare for a broader discussion, so I ask you to stay tuned to the thread.

About the University-Wikimedia relationship, feel free to become our supporter and, eventually, partner. Unlike the education groups we have come in contact with (I don't mean any Brazilian ones) we are willing to transfer all our know-how. If you want, we can arrange on- and off-wiki discussions on the subject. --Felipe da Fonseca (talk) 17:37, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

Hi again: since your native language is English, I ask that, if it is not a problem for you, to correct and improve the English of the proposal whenever possible, feel free to edit this question directly.--Felipe da Fonseca (talk) 18:23, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

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) 20:42, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

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.

(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) 15:00, 22 July 2021 (UTC)

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
• Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/vsg-mxiw-hij --Pharos (talk) 18:38, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

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.

(You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future notifications for the Wikisporadic Newsletter by adding or removing your name from this list.)

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

--Pharos 19:48, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Re: Congratulations on your Wikimedia Foundation board appointment

Thank you! I hope to be able to do something good. - Laurentius (talk) 20:24, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

Invitation for WikiConference North America 2021

Thank you for signing up for last year's WikiConference North America 2020! I'd like to invite you to this year's WikiConference North America 2021, taking place online and free, October 8-10.

• Registration is open and takes just a few minutes!
• Program submissions are also open through the end of the month, though they are being reviewed on a rolling basis—so the sooner you submit, the better! We are accepting presentations, workshops, round tables, or any other type of session format you can think of.

If you've already registered or submitted a proposal—thank you! We look forward to seeing you soon. ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 19:08, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

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) 18:02, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

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) 01:23, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

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) 15:46, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

David Shankbone

you might consider creating a license template such as c:Template:RogerPuta or c:Template:PD-Highsmith. but as you saw, people will want an email confirmation. smdh. but while Shankbone was a trailblazer, there are other photographers who have approached if not surpassed his content creation, such as c:User talk:Nv8200pa cheers. --Slowking4 (talk) 16:03, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

and welcome to the PD mark hate. the europeans do not understand the US PD declarations that do not check their CC-0 box, even if the US sensibility predates the license. --Slowking4 (talk) 00:15, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

WMF financials

pst, this is a marked improvement [2] leave your comment here , Wikimedia Foundation reports/Financial/Audits/2020-2021 - frequently asked questions. cheers. --Slowking4 (talk) 23:05, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

Remarks on your feedback proposa for WMDE values

We noted your feedback with much interest and are happy to hear that you would like to see WMDE in an active role in the global conversations! It was also quite motivating to read through your comment, so I'd also like to personally thank you very much for your detailed thoughts, which many of us have read! Best regards Christoph Jackel (WMDE) 16:41, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

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)

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) 12:44, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

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)

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) 18:19, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Need some help with WiR

Hello,

I found your page from the WREN. I have just received a WiR position with an educational institution. Currently in need of some guidance with what steps to take going forward. Thanks in advance. OtuNwachinemere (talk)

Barnstar Continent?

I started drafting a related idea at North American Wikimedians (bad name, see discussion on talk :) -- the BC draft seemed US centric at first but I see it mentions North America in the first sentence. Are these getting at the same thing, or two different ones? If the same, happy to merge. –SJ talk  16:59, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

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) 12:57, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

request some help

I need your help asap at the page below. could you please assist? please feel free to relay.

if you have any feedback for me, that's fine; you can send to me privately, via dm at the MS forums.

en:Wikipedia_talk:Administrators'_noticeboard#new_resource_for_wiki_discussions

thanks. --Sm8900 (talk) 19:57, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

Incident response system

Hi Lane, I saw your posts on Talk:Private Incident Reporting System page. Your concerns about WMF wasting people's time on another project that's not going to go anywhere are real and important. I know that you've been working on this since at least 2014 when you submitted that IdeaLab proposal (and obviously even before then). I'd like to talk with you about it — would you be interested in a call with me? Thanks DannyH (WMF) (talk) 15:43, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

Y We talked, thanks. Bluerasberry (talk) 13:55, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

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

Question from Dutch journalist about Meta's Side AI

Hi @Bluerasberry, I'm a Dutch science journalist currently working on a piece about Wikimedia/Wikipedia. One of the main topics I'm looking into is Meta's Side AI. I see you've tried this AI out, as you said in this topic. I have a couple of questions, would you be open for an interview? Through any medium that you're comfortable with, of course (email, chat, telephone, video call, whatever suits you best). If so, when would you be able to talk? My timezone is GMT+2. Cheers, SGH SpookyGoHappy (talk) 11:42, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

Hi, just making sure: I replied to your email-reply, let me know if that didn't reach you! Thanks, cheers, SpookyGoHappy (talk) 12:14, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

@SpookyGoHappy: Yes, we are in touch by email! We will talk soon. Bluerasberry (talk) 13:55, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

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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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)

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) 11:24, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

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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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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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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
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  Three horses (SDG 15)

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  Hunter baby chameleon (SDG 15)

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  Rice paper butterfly (SDG 15)

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  Lasiocampa quercus 4th instar caterpillar Keila (top view) (SDG 15)

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  Lasiocampa quercus 4th instar caterpillar Keila (side view).jpg (SDG 15)

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  Mockingbird on the North Lake Trail (SDG 15)

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  Striated Pardalote (SDG 15)

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  Wiesenvögelchen (SDG 15)

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  Herring gull (SDG 15)

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  Northern shoveler (SDG 15)

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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
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  Ourapteryx yerburii ssp. specimens and male genitalia (SDG 15)

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  Pterophorus pentadactyla (SDG 15)

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  Wood duck drake (SDG 15)

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  Cardinal (SDG 15)

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  Bunten Kronwicke (Securigera varia) (SDG 15)

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  Sympetrum sanguineum (SDG 15)

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  Crocus tommasinianus (SDG 15)

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  Papaya - longitudinal section close-up view (SDG 15)

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  Aphantopus hyperantus (SDG 15)

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  Australian Zebra Finch (SDG 15)

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  Melospiza melodia (SDG 15)

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  Roadside hawk (Rupornis magnirostris griseocauda) eating speckled racer (Drymobius margaritiferus) (SDG 15)

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  Black iguana (Ctenosaura similis) (SDG 15)

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  Cerastis rubricosa caterpillar (side view) (SDG 15)

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  Cerastis rubricosa caterpillar (dorsal view) (SDG 15)

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  Frühlings-Knotenblume (Leucojum vernum) (SDG 15)

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  Ocellated turkey (Meleagris ocellata) male (SDG 15)

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  Geoffroy's spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi yucatanensis) (SDG 15)

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  Ophiopogon planiscapus (SDG 15)

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  Protaetic cuprea ignicollis (SDG 15)

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  Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus plexippus) (SDG 15)

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  Cepaea nemoralis (SDG 15)

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  Crepis biennis (SDG 15)

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  Keel-billed toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus sulfuratus) on foxtail palm (Wodyetia bifurcata) (SDG 15)

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  Trifolium spadiceum (SDG 15)

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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
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  Ara macao cyanopterus (SDG 15)

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  Leptura quadrifasciata (SDG 15)

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  Bursa lamarckii (SDG 15)

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  Ara macao cyanopterus (SDG 15)

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  Chlamydera guttata (SDG 15)

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  Sitta carolinensis (SDG 15)

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  Pumpkin field (SDG 2)

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  Diglossa baritula & Canna indica (SDG 15)

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  Acer platanoides (SDG 15)

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  Amazilia rutila (SDG 15)

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  Passiflora edulis (SDG 15)

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  Melanerpes aurifrons (SDG 15)

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  Argiope versicolor (SDG 15)

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  Allium ursinum (SDG 15)

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  Platanus x hispanica (SDG 15)

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  Thymelicus lineola (SDG 15)

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  Acer palmatum (SDG 15) [38]

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  Falco tinnunculus (SDG 15) [39]

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  Zalophus californianus (SDG 15) [40]

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  Acer pseudoplatanus (SDG 15)

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  Tamarindus indica (SDG 15)

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  Sciurus carolinensis (SDG 15) [43]

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  Tyrannus savana monachus (SDG 15)

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  Rapa incurva (SDG 15)

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  Trigona sp. (SDG 15)

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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)

WHO on the fediverse

Hello! I forgot, are you on Mastodon or elsewhere in the fediverse? I can't find you on Wikis World or my follows. I wanted to share that James Love of KEI has «Asked the WHO to create an instance and use it to engage the public on its pandemic treaty negotiations today, speaking in Committee B of the World Health Assembly». I suspect you know how to pass the message to some well-meaning persons inside WHO. Cheers, Nemo 07:14, 27 May 2023 (UTC)