Happy Tuesday everyone,
I am just back from a long and sunny Easter weekend . I hope you had a good start to your week already. Take some time and dive into the many amazing things our communities are doing . Note: next week I will be out of the office, so your next update will be on the 24th of April.
Articles, Publications, etc.:
- Wikipedia’s new sound logo is delightfully nerdy
- Who is behind Wikipedia?
- A literature review that lives way beyond the classroom
- Take-aways from Fall 2022’s community of instructors and students
- How students at HBCUs are changing Wikipedia for the better
- Can you trust Wikidata?
- A Study of Concept Similarity in Wikidata
- Creative Commons #BetterSharing Collection | April: The More We Share, The More We Have
- Wikipedia’s “Supreme Court” to Review Polish-Jewish History During WWII
Podcasts and Videos:
- WikiSuena on the Internet Archive
- WikipediaPodden with essäntiell intelligens
- Building Special Projects on Wikipedia
- 【Open Data Day Taiwan 2023】億筆資料怎麼用:Wikidata 資料的再運用
- Introduction to Wikidata
- “Sustainable Open Data using Wikidata” - Peter Neish, Alex Lum (Everything Open 2023)
- Creative Commons’ Open Cultural Voices with Nkem E. Osuigwe
- The open knowledge revolution: contributing to the global commons with Wikimedian Dr Martin Poulter
- A Wiki Minute
- WIKIMOVE Podcast: Governing Wikipedia and in German
- Jess Wade on Chiral Materials, Open Knowledge, and Representation in STEM
Things to participate in:
- Wiki Loves Living Heritage/Ethics of Open Sharing with Creative Commons & Wiki Loves Living Heritage
- The future of Vector 2022 and software decision-making. A meeting with Selena Deckelmann
- Indic Wikisource proofread-a-thon April 2023
- ART+FEMINISM: YEAR TEN!
- Wiki Workshop 2023
- Wikimedia Foundation elections committee/Nominations/2023
- The MCDC invites interested people to share feedback on the open questions via comment on the Meta Talk page, comment on the Movement Strategy Forum, or/and by joining the community conversation hours
- Queering Wikipedia 2023 Conference
- HACK THE WIKI GAP – INNOVATIVE FRAUEN SICHTBAR MACHEN
- WikiProjekt FemNetz/FemNetz 2023
- Let’s Connect Learning Clinic with WFHR: Effective strategies for retaining and re-engaging new editors/participants during and after the WFHR campaign
- Learning Clinic: Lexemes with Asaf Bartov
- CEE Hub and Let’s Connect Learning Clinic: practices to support Wiki Loves Earth campaign organisers
- Покана за участие в срещата на Уикимедия за Централна и Източна Европа през 2023 г.
- Webinar de Lançamento do WikiPorDireitosHumanos: Foco em Poluição
- Participe da campanha #WikiPelosDireitosHumanos e contribua com conhecimento que conecta direitos humanos com soluções para um futuro sustentável
From the WMF:
- Building Engaging Narratives From Encyclopedic Content and in German
- Don’t Blink: Public Policy Snapshot for February 2023 and in German
- Growth team newsletter #25 and in German
- Strengthening Connection in the Wikimedia Movement and in German
- Europe Needs Digital Public Spaces That Are Independently Moderated and Hosted
- Wikimedia Foundation: Global Guidelines Policies & Practices and in German
From the Communities:
- A volunteer-based initiative is flourishing in Arabic Wikipedia: Reliability enhanced with +10k citations added
- WikiSound Audio Speaks Campaign
- Your latest Tech News and another one
- Wikimedia Polska has a new 3-year strategy!
- One student, one plane and thirty-seven photos in Wikimedia Commons and in German
- TUSWUG S2E2: Women in Wiki and in German
- Learnings from the Scholarship Program of the WikiConference India 2023 and in German
- We have three, yes three, new User Groups! Welcome to Wikimedia Community User Group Togo, Wikimedians of Indiana User Group, and Tajik Wikimedians User Group
- Catch up with the monthly news from the GLAM world
- Check out the latest Signpost
- 7 in 7: Celebrating the impacts of Wikimedia Fulfulde Community on Wikidata and in German
- French Wikimedia Culture and Digital Day 2023
- “Somos ciudadanos de segunda clase en Internet”: cómo la reforma de los derechos de autor en Sudáfrica puede servir al movimiento del conocimiento libre a nivel mundial
- Diff の活用例 #1
- Découvrir Wikimédia dans le Moyen-Orient et l’Afrique du Nord (MENA) and تعرفوا على ويكيميديا في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا
- 稲門ウィキペディアン会勉強会 #1 管理活動のモチベーションなど
- 早稲田Wikipedianサークルが読書猿『独学大全』についてのインタビューに応じる
This week I took a dive into the Bibliography of the United States Constitution, because who doesn’t love a good bibliography?!
All done for today. Let me know if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions. See you on the 24th.
Best,
Julia