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Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2025: Invitation
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Dear Omotecho!
Wikimedia Ukraine, in cooperation with the MFA of Ukraine and Ukrainian Institute would like to invite you to once again participate in annual "Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month". We accept contribution in all language editions of Wikipedia! As always, the campaign is dedicated to famous Ukrainian artists of cinema, music, literature, architecture, design, and cultural phenomena of Ukraine that are now part of world heritage.
Join the campaign and win valuable prizes!
You are also welcome to translate the landing page of the contest and banner into your own language.
As part of the campaign, we’ve also prepared a special event for you!
Have you ever explored a museum not in person, but as your digital avatar? Join us for a guided virtual tour through the Museum of Stolen Art — during the tour, you’ll learn how Russian forces looted and demolished museum collections and cultural monuments in occupied cities, with a particular focus on Mariupol.
💬 You’ll also have the opportunity to translate and improve articles related to the event as part of the UCDM 2025 campaign.
- May 6, 15:00 (CET)
- Find more details and register here.
You received this message because you participated in the previous iterations of Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month. OlesiaLukaniuk (WMUA) (talk)
16:14, 16 April 2025 (UTC)
This Month in Education: April 2025
editThis Month in Education
Volume 14 • Issue 4 • April 2025
- Ceremony of giving certificates and awarding the winners of the edit-a-thon: Meet Slovenia
- The Workshops Wikimedia & Education are back in Brazil
- EduWiki Nigeria: Advancing Digital Literacy in Schools
- Empowering the Next Generation: Wikidata Training at Federal Government Boys College, FGBC Abuja
- Final Wikipedia project with Shefit Hekali school in Peqin, Albania
- Teachers who graduated from the Leamos Wikipedia program in Bolivia become mentors for their colleagues
- Wikivoyage in Has region, Northern Albania
- Wikivoyage workshop in Bulqiza
Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2025: Second invitation
edit Dear Omotecho!
The last week to join to the "Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2025" — participate until 16th May🧩!
Thank you for your contribution the last year. This year, we again accept contributions in all language editions of Wikipedia! The campaign is dedicated to famous Ukrainian artists of cinema, music, literature, architecture, design, and cultural phenomena of Ukraine that are now part of world heritage.
Join the campaign and win valuable prizes!
You are also welcome to translate the landing page of the contest and banner into your own language.
You received this message because you participated in the previous iterations of Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month. OlesiaLukaniuk (WMUA) (talk) 15:52, 11 May 2025 (UTC)
This Month in Education: May 2025
editThis Month in Education
Volume 14 • Issue 5 • May 2025
- Journalism students at Aleksandër Xhuvani University explore Wikipedia in Albania
- Reviewing pending articles editathon with high school students in Albania
- Several educational workshops to promote science on Wiki were held in Brazil in the month of May
- Simón Bolívar Teacher Training College joins the Let's Read Wikipedia Program
- Students become Editors: Wikimedia Chile launches Latin America's first Vikidia Workshop
- The DemocraTICon competition was held, this year for the first time with a discipline focused on Wikipedia
- Wikimedia MKD's "Lajka" workshop in Skopje
The Wikipedia Library and invite sources in Japan
edit(Ja follows en: 後半に日本語があります)
@WhatamIdoing, I am trying to brainstorm here and wish @Wadakuramon would input better approaches.
The Wikipedia Library is not popular among Japanese speaking users, since its handier for them to search the National Library of Japan database to find reliable sources. The discussion is posted on Talk:The_Wikipedia_Library, thread [#Request business resources Request business resources]
Then, there are major publishers native to Japan, which contracts with their counterpart overseas: the National Geography has contracted the Nikkei Newspaper Company to issue NG's ja language edition almost 20yrs, with original/local articles inserted.
For academic papers and books, it is where librarians will lead us understand the landscape,
That will hint us which company is easier to nudge and follow their contracting publisher outside of Japan (ex NG); I mean, those who will give us priviledge to use their database. Might they jump across the gap easier, between commercial interest to becoming a free-knowledge sponsor ? (crossing my finger.)
ウィキペディア図書館（以下TWL）で話題が上がり、日本語話者にも「データベースを使いたい商業出版社」を提案してもらえないかという流れになりました。いずれ状況を整理して、広い場で声をかけようと思うのですが、まずおおざっぱに課題や、交渉先の候補をどう探すか、メモを書きます。
残念ながら、現状でTWLには日本語資料が少ないため、JAWPその他で活用されていないと想像します。各社と実際の交渉へ進む前に日本国内から情報を提供して「おおよその風景・風向き」を整理できないかと考えます。
例として特殊かもしれませんが、日経BPとナショナル ジオグラフィック社は、原本の丸ごと翻訳ではなく日本語版独自の記事を織り込み、表題は『ナショナル ジオグラフィック』を変えていません。
また、TWLで利用したい候補の出版社や学会出版物などありましたら、TWLの正式の申請手順 Suggest（提案）をご参照ください。
図書館司書など情報工学に強い方にお知恵を借りたく、よろしくお願い申し上げます。
Open issue: ------
調べること
- (1) Workflow: Is there any librarian-friendly way to list any target publishing houses? If there is, that list/formula will be very helpful to have the general landscape in Japan, lisitng those eager to joint venture with overseas language publishers.
Ideas: ------
Agencies vs Printing companies.
- (a) translated books
Usually, publishing agents are contracted in Japan for titles translated from non-Japanese languages. Pioneer since 1940s, or Tuttle-Mori Agency,[1], to visual books specialist Kōdansha International for Penguin International[2].
- (b) licensing professionals
Mega printing companies like Dai Nippon Printing also have employees to arrange sourcing original books to be translated into Japanese or visa versa (export).
- Do you recommend any wise/handy platform, or spreadsheet format to jot down ideas?
Omotecho (talk) 06:57, 4 June 2025 (UTC)
- You know so much more than I do, that unfortunately I can make no useful suggestions. WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:01, 6 June 2025 (UTC)
Growth News #34
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A quarterly update from the Growth team on our work to improve the new editor experience.
Mentoring new editors
editIn February, Mentorship was successfully rolled out to 100% of newcomers on English Wikipedia. Following this milestone, we collaborated with Spanish Wikipedia to expand Mentorship coverage to 70% of new accounts, with plans to reach 85% soon unless concerns are raised by mentors. (T394867)
“Add a Link” Task – Iteration and Experimentation
editOur efforts to improve and scale the “Add a Link” structured task continued across multiple fronts:
- Community Feedback & Model Improvements: We’ve responded to community concerns with targeted changes:
- Restricting access to newer accounts (T393688)
- Some links types were removed to align with recommendations written in the English Wikipedia Manual of Style (T390683)
- Allowing communities to limit “Add a Link” to newcomers (T393771)
- The model used to suggest the links was improved to ease its training (T388258)
- English Wikipedia rollout and A/B test: We increased the rollout to 20% of newcomers, with analysis underway. Preliminary data suggests this feature makes new account holders more likely to complete an unreverted edit. (T386029, T382603)
- Surfacing Structured Tasks: An experiment where we show “add a link” suggestions to newly registered users while they are reading an article is running on pilot wikis (French, Persian, Indonesian, Portuguese, Egyptian Arabic). Initial results are under analysis. (T386029)
Newcomer Engagement Features
edit- “Get Started” notification: Engineering is in progress for a new notification (Echo/email) to encourage editing among newcomers with zero edits. Early research shows this type of nudge is effective. (T392256)
- Confirmation email: We are exploring ways to simplify and improve the initial account confirmation email newly registered users receive. (T215665)
Community Configuration Enhancements
editCommunities can now manage which namespaces are eligible for Event Registration via Community Configuration. (T385341)
Annual Planning
editThe Wikimedia Foundation’s 2025–2026 Annual Plan is taking shape. The Growth and Editing teams will focus on the Contributor Experiences (WE1) objective, with a focus on increasing constructive edits by editors with fewer than 100 cumulative contributions.
Get Involved
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18:51, 17 June 2025 (UTC)