This week I learned about the peace activist and suffragette Bertha Brewster who wrote a short but poignant letter to the editor of the Daily Telegraph in 1913 saying:
Everyone seems to agree upon the necessity of putting a stop to Suffragist outrages, but no-one seems certain how to do so. There are two, only two ways in which this can be done. Both will be effectual.
Kill every woman in the United Kingdom.
Give women the vote.
Yours truly, Bertha Brewster
This is all from me for today. Let me know if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions.
Hope you are having a good week. Block some time and dive into the community going ons of the week.
The WMF launched the Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards where African journalists can self nominate stories that help to expand knowledge about Africa. This will help to further close the knowledge gap we are seeing on our projects. Read more on Diff and the WMF blog.
Check out the Wikipedia editor with 90,000+ edits, almost exclusively fixing the phrase “comprised of”, who also wrote a 5,300-word essay on why he’s done that for 15 years
Travel, Tours and Tourism: The Audiovisuals of Igbo Dances (AID) Project (WIKIMEDIA) Part 1 and Part 2
Things to participate in:
As part of our ongoing efforts to improve the Wikipedia mobile app, the team at the WMF is seeking volunteers to provide their opinions on new designs for an upcoming feature in the iOS app. To participate, simply visit this link and share your thoughts on the new designs on this talk page.
During the WikiNusantara 2023 annual conference last week in Banjarmasin, Indonesia, Wikimedia Indonesia honored three volunteer Indonesian Wikimedians and a local Wikimedia community for their works and contributions for the local Wikimedia communities in Indonesia and Wikimedia projects in the languages of Indonesia. Individual awardees are Rahmat Denas (User:Rahmatdenas), who won the “Content Volunteer of the Year” award for his work at Minangkabau Wikipedia and Wikidata; Arief Rahman (User:Ezagren), who won the “Senior Volunteer of the Year” award for his fourteen years of work at Banjar Wikipedia and the local Wikimedia communities in Kalimantan; and Davina Fitria, who won the “Newcomer Volunteer of the Year” award for her work as an organizer for the Indonesian Wikisource community. The Denpasar Wikimedia community, based in Bali, won the “Local Community of the Year” award for their active outreach and organizing for the Wikimedia projects in Balinese languages.
Let’s finish today with Eurovision! May is Eurovision month, here in Europe where I am based, so check out this detailed account on German Wikipedia on all things Eurovision 2023!
This is all for this week. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please do get in touch.
It is Monday again and I hope you are all having a great start to your week ! Why not make it even better but getting yourself a nice warm drink and read up on the many things our communities are doing.
Have you ever found yourself struggling to explain Wikipedia and its sister projects in a snappy way? Could you do it in under a minute? The latest A Wiki Minute video explains the free knowledge movement and the volunteers who bring it to life. (And if you’re new to these videos, enjoy the entire playlist on YouTube.)
Treinamento para a integração do Wikidata com outros projetos Wikimedia, em especial o Wikimedia Commons, sobre o carregamento de imagens e metadados estruturados (Structured Data on Commons) pelo OpenRefine
On May 30, Indonesian Wikipedia celebrated the 20th anniversary of the creation of the project. Started on May 30, 2003, it now has almost 650,000 articles
This brings us to my favorite article of the week. This week I took a closer look at the Gingham dress of Judy Garland and learned about its history and cultural impact.
Thanks everyone for reading this far and let me know if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions. Have a good week.
Hope everyone had a nice weekend . It is slowly getting warmer up here, in the north, and the nights are pretty short . Start your week with getting some energy from the amazing community stories our movement has for us. Enjoy
The Wikimedia Terms of Use have been updated effective June 7. This follows the end of the spring consultation held between February and April, and approvals recorded by the Executive Director and General Counsel per the delegation of policy-making authority from the Foundation Board of Trustees. The Foundation is happy to announce that the project license has been upgraded to CC BY-SA 4.0! Technical work has already started on this change.
Did you know 59% of the streets and squares in Paris are named after people? Of those, 8.9% are named after women. Mapping Diversity uses @Wikidata to discover key facts about diversity and representation in street names across Europe.
Hope everyone had a restful weekend and you are now ready to catch up with all the cool things our communities are doing! Take some time, and catch up with some of the stories .
United Nations Development Programme in collaboration with the Bishkek Feminist Initiative has developed 35 additional articles on gender issues in the Kyrgyz language for Wikipedia
This week, one new article made me have a closer look at Die Kirchengängerin by Louis Ammy Blanc. It was so popular it already ended up on a cup in the 19th century!
All done for today. If you have any questions, suggestions, or comments, just get in touch.
Hope you had a fun weekend and are ready to start your week with some great updates from our communities! Get yourself a nice drink of your choice and start your week.
Africa Growth Pilot: a new experiment focused on growing contributors in the African continent, is looking for feedback through 21 July. The project seeks to enhance existing community efforts in Africa with online learnings on common challenges faced by new contributors.
Let’s have a look at something beautiful to finish this update today (Ok I am biased, I am a medievalist and love medieval manuscripts ). Dive with me into the beauty of the Goldene Haggada, a medieval manuscript of the 14th century from Catalonia .
All done for today, let me know if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions.
Between the Brackets with Tom Harriman, a senior learning project manager at the technical training center of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
Now, to my favorite new article of the week, we are staying in the Middle Ages and exploring the Epitome rerum Hungarorum, a medieval manuscript from Hungary that tells the history of Hungarians.
All done for today, thank you for reading. If you have any questions, suggestions, or comments, let me know.
I hope you had a restful and/or exciting weekend and are ready to start this week with catching up on some stories from our communities. This will be the last update until the 14h of August as it is summer here and I am taking my holidays. But for now, let’s get started.
New article of the week time! This week I learned about Climate change in Nigeriaand the devastating impact it has on nature , biodiversity , and humans.
This is all for now. As mentioned above, I am on holiday and your Updates from the Communities will return on the 14th of August. Have a good few weeks everyone and let me know if there are any questions, comments, or suggestions.
I am back from my holidays and had a lovely, relaxing time visiting quite a few lighthouses . This week’s update is big! Everyone was super busy and did lots of cool things while I was on holiday! Get a big cup of tea and get started.
Note - as there is a lot of news from the Communities this week, I tried to structure some of it roughly into regions. Make sure you check them all out!
Contact Base in India just launched Living Heritage Through Your Lens. The introduction to the competition says, “the focus of this campaign is not on the competition aspect but rather on fostering a sense of community, cultural appreciation, and knowledge sharing.” The winners will be announced on the International Day of Peace.
Wohooo you made it! Yes it was a lot, but if you are still hungry for exploring new things, check out these two cool new articles. Die Nacht is a painting by Max Beckmann which I vividly remember being in my history school book , and I also learned about Lead mining in Scotland which dates back to the 13th century.
This is really all for today now! Well done everyone. Let me know if you have any questions, comments or suggestions.
Yes, it is Friday and not Monday I have been traveling from Wikimania and did not manage to write your weekly update earlier. But, better late than never and here it is! Next week I am off (recovering from all conferencing) so the next weekly update will be on the 11th of September. Until then, have a good couple of weeks and enjoy the update - check out the Wikimania section below!
Next to all the cool Wikimania articles, my favorite new article on Wikipedia this week is about the book A Plunge Into Space! Look at the cool cover and the society they created, where they have eliminated poverty, reduced the work day to two hours, dispensed with central government and currency, and achieved gender equality. I will put this on my reading list.
This is all for now! Let me know if you have any questions, suggestions, or comments.
I am back from my break and now back to a normal posting schedule . Today’s update gives you lots of great things! Make sure to check out the Wikimania section which has several, multilingual, volunteer pieces in it, describing their experience at Wikimania.
A visual summary of the topics discussed during Wikimania Singapore, the awarded Wikimedians of the Year, and the Wikimania Hackathon development work. This illustration was created by Idea Ink Illustrations during the four days of the event.
Sundanese Wikisource was launched as a separate subdomain on 16th August 2023 during Wikimania. The community will now start to import texts from the Multilingual Wikisource. Sundanese has now become the fourth Indonesian language to have a separate Wikisource, after Indonesian (launched November 2005), Balinese (launched July 2021), and Javanese (launched August 2021).
To close us off today, my favorite new article is about Allia Potestas, a freed slave woman. The text freeing her survives to our days! Go and check it out (and test your Latin skills ).
This is all for today. Let me know if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions.
It is indeed Monday again and I hope everyone had a good weekend . Start your week with reading up on things that happen in our amazing communities during the last weeks. Lots of different things you can take part in are coming up so check them out!
Yes, it is time for my favorite new article of the week. This week I learned about the Faraway Tsardom, a realm of Old East Slavic literature into which the hero falls or is separated from the ordinary world by impenetrable dense forests, abysses, seas or other obstacles .
Now we are all done for today. Thanks for reading and let me know if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions.
I hope everyone had a nice weekend and is ready to start the week with some awesome news on all the cool things that are happening in our communities! Many things to participate in around the world at the moment, so check out if there is something local to you happening.
It has become very autumnal, up here in the north, where I am and it is a lovely time of the year! I hope you all are having a good start to the week. Make it even better by reading some inspiring community stories .
With all the news for today done, let’s go and dive into a new Wikipedia article. This week I have for you a long long list of all animated American television series - plenty to catch up on next weekend it seems.
Have a good week everyone and let me know if you have any questions, comments or suggestions.
My favorite new article this week is about Stadtbibliothek Füssen because who doesn’t love a library📚?! This one is in the old premises of a monastery.
All done for today. Thanks for reading and let me know if you have any questions, suggestions, or comments.
The challenges of adding underrepresented artists to Wikipedia
Underrepresented STEM leaders to shine on Wikipedia with new grant from Broadcom Foundation
Wikidata Atlas: Putting Wikidata on the Map
Documenter l’histoire queer sur Wikidata
Cómo acabar de una vez por todas con las listas de los mejores libros
This TikToker Found Out That The Canadian Government Cares A Lot About The Grammar Of Wikipedia Articles And It’s Honestly Pretty Funny
Online tools help large language models to solve problems through reasoning
Thoughts on WikiSkills for Librarian By Justice Obeng
WikipediaPodden with obestämd dystopi and källa: privat
Between the Brackets with Sam Wilson, a senior software engineer in the Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation
AI Images in Wikipedia: A Battle for Reality!
Let’s Connect, WikiForHumanRights & CEE Spring: Strategies for retaining editors in WFHR campaigns.
WikiAfricaHour on Tech Ops with Selena
Creative Commons’ Open Cultural Voices with Jessemusse Cacinda
Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2023
Let’s Connect Learning Clinic: Strategic Planning as a Collaborative Process with WikiMovement Brasil
Doxing: Why should you care? and Doxing: Have you tried doxing yourself?
Inviting reflections on the Wikimedia Foundation’s draft annual plan
University of Education Gurene students host translation session on environmental articles
OFWA and Goethe Institute Host Wiki Skills For Librarians Workshop-Ghana
International Roma Day Edit-a-thon 2023
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Museum exhibition of photographs taken for Wikipedia now running
Collaborate, Communicate, and Navigate Ethical Considerations with the Ethical Sharing Card Game
Catch up with the newest edition of the Signpost
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What do oscar fish, the capital of Surinam, and the Arunachalesvara Temple have in common?
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