Updates from the Communities - weekly newsletter

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Hello everyone,

It is indeed Monday again and I hope you had a good weekend! Start of this new, beautiful week with diving into some of the cool things around our Communities. Get a tea and get started!

Articles, publications, etc.:

• Wikipedia ban in Pakistan over alleged blasphemous content lifted
• This App Turns the World Into a Wikipedia Scavenger Hunt
• Into the Rabbit Hole: A Game of Data
• Better Sharing for Generative AI
• From unstructured texts to semantic story maps
• The URW-KG: a Resource for Tackling theUnderrepresentation of non-Western Writers
• The Power of Wikidata in The Linnean
• Turn the AC on
• Garden Phylogeny - See the NCBI breakdown of common garden foods with photographs by Phytotheca.
• Beyond Wikipedia: Discovering Wikimedia’s Open-Source Ecosystem
• Wikipedia Worries Its Volunteer Editors Could Be Liable to Lawsuits Without Section 230
• Wikimedia Austria Awards Prize for Free Knowledge 2023 at Viennese Ball of Science
• After blocking Wikipedia over blasphemous continent, Pakistan lifts ban

Podcasts and videos:

• Wikimove EPISODE 8: MOVEMENT STRATEGY and the Diff post
• WMA - Création d’un site web basé sur Wikidata, sans compétences en développement jour deux
• Taula rodona “Dones, Ciència i Wikidata”
• Nicole Ferraiolo — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 1

Things to participate in:

• WikiForHumanRights/Join Community Events
• Women History Month Conversation
• Afrosounds Meet-Up 2.0 (more on Afrosounds)
• Labor and trade union Edit-a-thon
• Africa Environment Day / Wangari Maathai Day
• বাংলার জীবন্ত ঐতিহ্য মুদ্রণ সংশোধন অভিযান ২০২৩
• Two WikiForHumanRights webinars: Building Article List with Petscan and Tools for Finding the Right Articles
• Feminism and Folklore 2023
• Wikimedia Foundation Community Affairs Committee/2023-02-23 Conversation with Trustees

From the WMF:

• Wikimedia Enterprise Financial report & Product update
• Meet the new members of the Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Committee
• Black artists belong on Wikipedia — Black Lunch Table is making it happen
• Meet the people making Wikimedia projects more equitable
• Celebrating eight years of AfroCROWD diversifying Wikipedia
• [Survey] Please provide your feedback about the Movement Strategy Forum, also on the Forum
• Thinking about annual planning in the Wikimedia Foundation’s Product and Technology departments

From the Communities:

• Highlights of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee’s First Community Consultation
• Are you working on building global cooperation? Here are seven things you can learn from the Volunteer Supporters Network!
• 800K readers turn to this student’s work to celebrate activist
• Wikimania, partecipa con la borsa di Wikimedia Italia
• Wiki Loves Africa MetaData Weeks Winners
• Your latest Tech News
• USW S1E6: What it takes to build a Wiki Community in Tanzania [Part 2]
• A Journey through World’s Intangible Cultural Heritage with Wiki Loves Folklore
• Movement Charter Community Consultation Summary
• University Students Wikimedians: Season 2 Learning Series
• The Deoband Community Wikimedia proposes a six-monthly research plan for its growth trajectory.
• Content Partnerships Hub/Software/Tool prioritization survey end 2022
• Terremoto in Turchia e Siria
• A Year of Impact: Wikimedia Morocco User Group’s 2022 Accomplishments and Plans for 2023
• Read what is new in GLAM
• Revisiting the Openverse: Finding Open Images and Audio
• Have a look how the The Celtic Knot Conference Kwara 2022 Meetup went
• History In The Making — Five Years And Counting In Projecting World’s Intangible Heritage Globally
• Igbo Wikimedians Community’s Participation in the Movement Charter Consultation

This week, I learned the most not in a new article but in one of the most edited articles of the past week. Go and explore the Talim code in textiles and find out how it was mainly used to weave vertically.

Go and enjoy your Monday. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please let me know.

Best,

Julia