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hi everyone.

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The next monthly Future Audiences video call: October 19, 14:00 UTC[edit source | Add topic]

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Hi all, this is announcement of the next monthly hour-long Future Audiences video call – a space where anyone interested in this work can come learn, ask questions, and give input on the work the Future Audiences team are doing around AI or social media experiments, or talk about their own related initiatives. Please feel free to turn up – we’re happy for anyone who wants to come talk or listen to us. You don’t need to have done anything specific within these fields, the main requirement is to be interested enough in the topic that you want to spend time in the call.

More details:

Agenda:

    1. AI & attribution presentation & Q&A (30 min)
    1. Engaging youth on third-party video platforms:
  • a) Ikusgela presentation (15 min)
  • b) WMF TikTok experiment (15 min)
  • c) Wrap-up discussion/Q&A (10–15 min or as needed)

Slides, recordings and notes from previous meetings can be found at Future Audiences/Community discussions, and you can read more about questions asked at the last meeting above. We’re looking forward to seeing/hearing from you

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Jul 30, 2023
With two new key draft chapters of the Wikimedia Movement Charter out for review, the Movement Charter Drafting Committee warmly invites all to mark this momentous occasion and to join this call to explore the new concepts, share feedback and directly ask questions. The new draft chapters are Global Council and Hubs.

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Happy Monday everyone,

I hope the weekend was relaxing :sunny:and you are all ready to start your week with some amazing community news.

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This brings us to my favorite new article of the week. This week I explored Reading’s Bar in California. It was a gold find site area and has many mining towns around (like horsetown :horse:).

All done for today, if you have any questions, suggestions, or comments, please let me know.

Cheers,

Julia

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Hello everyone,

It is Monday again and I hope you are enjoying the start of your week :cherry_blossom:. As always, there is lots of things to dive into, so let’s get a nice cup of tea :tea:and get started.

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Now, my favorite new article is about Monkton House :house:which was completely remodeled in the 1930s in cooperation with Salvador Dali, making it the only completed surrealist house in Britain (it has both the :kiss: Mae West lip sofa and the :lobster: Lobster Telephone!).

This is all for today, thank you for reading. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please let me know.

Best,

Julia

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Hi everyone,

It is indeed Monday again and I hope you had a good weekend :star_struck:. Autumn is in full swing here and it is getting proper cold now :scarf:. So, if you are also in a cold region, get a cup of tea :tea: and dive into the cool things around our communities from the last week.

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Today my favorite article was a good old list! Dive into the Billboard Rhythmic top 10 singles of 1993:studio_microphone: :man_dancing::dancer::notes:to start your week.

All done for today. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, let me know.

Best,

Julia

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Hello all,

A start to a new week again and I think that means a nice cup of tea :tea:and catching up with some inspiring stories from our communities. My weekend was full of fog :face_in_clouds: and rain :umbrella:which can also be quite magical. I hope yours was good, have a lovely start to your week!

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My favorite article of the week took me back to the beautiful island of Torcello, near Venice in Italy, and the amazing collection of the Museo provinciale di Torcello :heart_eyes:.

Thank you for reading. Let me know if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions and have a lovely week.

Best,

Julia

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Hello everyone,

I am in Brussels this week and so far it has been rainy but there is plenty of chocolates :umbrella::chocolate_bar:. Hope you are all having a good start to your week! Make it better by checking out the latest news from our communities.

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My favorite article of the week made me travel again. This time I went to the Gopinath Temple :lotus: in Pabna. It has beautiful artwork and dates back to roughly, the mid-nineteenth century.

Thank you everyone for reading. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please let me know.

Cheers,

Julia

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Hi all,

Back in Helsinki where winter has truly happened while I was away :cold_face::snowman_with_snow:. I hope you are all having a good start to the week. Get yourself a nice hot drink :tea: and read up on the many amazing things that are happening across our communities.

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New article of the week time! This week I learned about Long gu, which are traditionally considered remains of dragons :dragon:!

And we are done! Have a lovely week everyone and let me know if you have any questions, suggestions, or comments.

Cheers,

Julia

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Hello everyone,

I hope you all had a nice weekend and are ready to start your week with some amazing stories from our communities. Finland is full of winter and the pre-Christmas :christmas_tree: time has started, which makes the dark days more cozy. Grab some tea :tea: and enjoy your reading.

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My favorite new article this week is about Gaudentz Hemple who created church bells :bell: in the 17th Century in Switzerland. His bells can be found all over Grisons (Kanton Graubünden) in Switzerland.

This is all for this week. Have a great week and let me know if you have any questions, suggestions, or comments.

Best,

Julia

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good ideas here!

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Hi everyone,

It is Monday again and I hope yours is off to a good start. My weekend was snowy :snowman_with_snow:so I would recommend a nice warm drink :tea: to dive into the cool stories from our communities.

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This week I learned about Kid Boxer, an Indian singer :microphone:, writer :fountain_pen:, director :clapper:, comedian :performing_arts: and lyricist who primarily worked on the Konkani stage.

Thanks for reading and let me know if you have any comments, questions, or suggestions.

Best,

Julia

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Hello everyone,

Welcome to your last Update from the Communities for the year :partying_face:. I will be off for a bit and will be updating you again as of the 15th of January. But for now, get yourself a nice cup of tea :teapot: and dive into the wonders and amazements of what our communities are doing.

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This week I explored all the Doris and Percivals on Wikipedia. Such as Sir Percival, one of the knights of the round table⚔️ and Doris Ríos, a Costa Rican human rights activist :muscle:.

You are all done for this year! Enjoy the end of the year and let me know if you have any suggestions, comments, or questions.

See you next year :fireworks:!

Julia

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great article!

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Hello everyone,

Nearly a month without a community update so, as expected, there is a lot in this one. So get yourself a pot of tea :teapot: and get started with a big start of the year catch up!

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Yes! This was a lot! Last but not least, my favorite new article of the past weeks is about the Rheinkran :building_construction:in Düsseldorf. This crane is from the middle ages and now only survives in some nice pictures.

Well done, you made it and are all done! Have a good start to your week and let me know if you have any questions, suggestions, or comments.

Cheers,

Julia

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Happy Monday everyone,

Welcome to today’s update and I am happy to let you know that it is much more the length of a cup of tea and not a pot of tea this time :tea:. I hope you all had a good weekend. We had crazy amounts of snow here so everything looks super pretty! :snowman_with_snow: Start your week with some inspiring stories!

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This week I learned all about Idefix (Rover) :dog2::stars:which is not the dog from Asterix and Obelix as I presumed but a satellite for the Martian Moon exploration :crescent_moon:.

Let me know if you have any comments, questions, or suggestions and see you next week.

Cheers,

Julia

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Hello everyone,

I hope you had a lovely and relaxing weekend :sunflower: and are ready to start your week with spending some time with great stories from our communities.

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This brings us to me learning about the Hun clan, and ancient ethnic community from Central and South Asia :earth_asia:, this week.

You are all done. Thank you for reading and let me know if you have any comments, questions, or suggestions.

Cheers,

Julia

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Happy Monday all,

I hope you are having a great start to your week :sunny: and had a lovely weekend. We had lots of sun which was lovely. So let’s get started with the week by catching up on some of the cool things happening across the movement.

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My favorite article of the week brought me to the ancient world of Herculaneum where I visited the Augusteum, which we are not sure what it was built for. It might have been built for the Roman imperial cult :crown: but that is not proven. Have a look at the cool mosaics and sculptures found there.

I hope you enjoyed your journey around the communities. Let me know if you have any questions, suggestions, or comments.

Best,

Julia

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Happy Monday everyone,

Hope you are having a good start to your week and want to make it even better by reading up what happened across our communities (there is even Guinness world record news in this update!). Get yourself a nice tea :teapot: and get started!

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This week I went and had a look at a whole lot of churches :church:. More specifically I explored two lists (who doesn’t love a good list?!) one with all sacred buildings in the Landkreis Zwickau and one in the Landkreis Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge.

Thank you all for reading, let me know if you have any questions, suggestions, or comments.

Have a lovely week,

Julia

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Hi all,

I hope you had a nice weekend :star_struck:and are ready for a fresh week ahead of us. Start it off by having a look at the great things our communities have been up to!

Articles, Publications, etc.:

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This week I took a train journey :railway_track: to the Bahnhof Starnberg :station:which had a waiting rooms not only first 1st, 2nd, and 3rd class passengers but one for nobility :crown:.

All done for today! Let me know if you have any comments, questions, or suggestions.

Best,

Julia

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