The Wikimedia Foundation’s Community Development team is seeking to learn more about the way volunteers learn and develop into the many different roles that exist in the movement. Our goal is to build a movement informed framework that provides shared clarity and outlines accessible pathways on how to grow and develop skills within the movement. To this end, we are looking to speak with you, our community to learn about your journey as a Wikimedia volunteer. Whether you joined yesterday or have been here from the very start, we want to hear about the many ways volunteers join and contribute to our movement.
To learn more about the project, please visit the Meta page. If you are interested in participating in the project, please complete this simple Google form. Although we may not be able to speak to everyone who expresses interest, we encourage you to complete this short form if you are interested in participating!
The Affiliations Committee (AffCom) – the committee responsible for guiding volunteers in establishing Wikimedia chapters, thematic organizations, and user groups – is looking for new members!
The main role of the Affiliations Committee is to guide groups of volunteers that are interested in forming Wikimedia affiliates. We review applications from new groups, answer questions and provide advice about the different Wikimedia affiliation models and processes, review affiliate bylaws for compliance with requirements and best practices, and update the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees as well as advise them on issues connected to chapters, thematic organizations and Wikimedia user groups.
The committee consists of fourteen members, selected every twelve months for staggered two-year terms. Those joining the committee during the current process will serve a two-year term ending in December 2021.
AffCom continues to closely monitor the Wikimedia 2030 Strategy process that was initiated in 2016. While the affiliation models continue to be discussed as part of the broader strategy discussion, as no decisions have been made to change the current affiliation models yet, AffCom will continue to work in the same manner with regard to affiliate recognitions and intervention support for affiliates with issues of non-compliance in 2020. Specifically, AffCom will continue to process applications for user group and chapter/thematic organization creation, while we await the strategy next steps and begin to prepare for a smooth transition of the committee and affiliates ecosystem to any changing movement structures and systems in 2021.
Being a part of the Affiliations Committee requires communication with volunteers all over the world, negotiating skills, cultural sensitivity, and the ability to understand legal texts. We look for a healthy mix of different skill sets in our members.
Required and Recommended Skills for Affiliations Committee Members
Across all committee members there are additional relevant skills as well as requirements which help to support the committee and its sustainability which include both required and relevant general skills
Required Skills
Fluency in English
Availability of up to 5 hours per week, and the time to participate in a monthly one and two-hour voice/video meetings.
Willingness to use one's real name in committee activities (including contacts with current and potential affiliates) when appropriate.
Strong track record of effective collaboration
International orientation
Relevant Skills
Skills in other languages are a major plus.
Public Communications (English writing and speaking skills)
Strong understanding of the structure and work of affiliates and the Wikimedia Foundation.
Documentation practices
Interviewing experience
Knowledge of different legal systems and experience in community building and organizing are a plus
Experience with, or in, an active affiliate is a major plus.
Teamwork
Focusing on shared goals instead of disagreements
Focusing on the conflict at hand and not past ones
Ensuring each member of the team has a clearly defined role, which can help reduce disagreements over areas of responsibility
Project and people management to coordinate different parties on a shared plan and seeing it through to completion.
Problem-Solving
Ability to evaluate various solutions
Ability to consider multiple interests and points of view
Willingness to revisit unresolved issues
The capacity to recognize and respond to important matters
The ability to seek compromise and avoid punishing
Ability to work and communicate with other languages and cultures.
Given the expectations for maintaining course in 2020 and preparing for potential 2021 transitions, it is important that we are also clear about two different skill sets critical to committee support at this time. The first skillset is oriented to understanding affiliate dynamics and organizational development patterns to successfully process affiliate applications for recognition; the other is oriented to conflict prevention and intervention support for affiliates in conflict.
Affiliate Recognitions Relevant Skills
Administration
Willingness to process applications through a set, perhaps bureaucratic process.
Attention to detail
Monitoring & Strategic Development
Readiness to participate in political discussions on the role and future of affiliates, models of affiliation, and similar topics.
Organizational Awareness
Understanding of and community building and organizational development
Being culturally sensitive at the same time remaining clear and concise when explaining a concept or opinion
Stress Management
Patience
Positivity
Ability to inject a dose of humor to dilute anger and frustration when needed
Taking well-timed breaks that can bring calm in the midst of flared tempers
Ability to manage stress while remaining alert and calm
Emotional Intelligence
Being emotionally aware,
Ability to control emotions and behaviors,
Ability to practice empathy,
Impartiality,
Don’t take anything personally,
Being aware of and respectful of differences.
Facilitation skills
Meeting facilitation experience
Peer or community mediation training
Peer or community mediation experience
Do you have any of these skill sets and an interest to support movement affiliates?
We are looking for people who are excited by the challenge of empowering volunteers to get organized and form communities that further our mission around the world. In exchange, committee members selected will gain the experience of supporting their world-wide colleagues to develop their communities as well as personal development in guiding organizational development, facilitating affiliate partnerships, and professional communications.
Selection process
As a reflection of our commitment to openness, transparency, and bilateral engagement with the Wikimedia community, the 2019 member selection process will include a public review and comment period. We invite you to share with us you applications, specifying your focus area you’re interested in. All applications received by the committee will be posted on Meta, and the community will be invited to provide comments and feedback about each candidate.
At the end of the public comment period, the applications will be voted on by the members of the committee who are not seeking re-election, taking into account comments put forward by the committee's members, advisors, Wikimedia Foundation staff and board liaisons, and the community. A final decision will be made by mid-January 2020, with new members expected to join later that month.
How to apply
If you are interested in joining the committee, please post your application on the nomination page and send an email announcing your application to AffComlists.wikimedia.org by 10 January 2020. Your application must include the following information:
Your full name and Wikimedia username
A statement describing your relevant experience, skills, and motivation for joining the committee.
Answers to the following questions:
How do you think affiliates work best together to partner on effective projects and initiatives?
What do you see as the role of affiliates in the Wikimedia movement in the next three years?
What do you feel you will bring to the committee that makes you uniquely qualified?
Which subcommittee are you most interested in serving on: Recognitions OR Conflict Prevention & Intervention?
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me and/or the committee as a whole. We are happy to chat or have a phone call with anyone about our work if this helps them decide to apply. Please distribute this call among your networks, and do apply if you are interested!
Hello Vb4ulhc6o9s9ch7q, I wanna share you about Wikimedia Diary, a public memory book (notebook) in which Wikimedians from all over the world are free to write any worth noting event/activities/experiences by them or community in this Wiki world. It is a more casual place to write about what one is up to.
As we all know, a diary is a book in which diarist keeps a daily record of events and experiences. Likewise, the basic idea of Wikimedia Diary is that we do many activities here in wiki world which we are proud of, but unfortunately it became only the history anytime. So, It is meant to record those activities on the happened date with a signature (~~~~) which is worth noting, and letting fellow Wikimedians know about what inspirational you've did. It would motivate users from all around the world to keep on cool activities and publish a note. I hope you share your activities with all of us on the page, and please let your friends know about Wikimedia Diary. Also, your feedback is welcome on the discussion page. Thank you! Kind regards, Tulsi Bhagat, Initiator of Wikimedia Diary, Wikimedia movement communications group. MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 15 november 2019 kl. 09.09 (CET)
Jag hade flera möten med chefer på SCB för något år sedan och vi satte ihop följande informationsblad till dem.[1]
Efter våra möten antog de CC BY istället för deras hemmasnickrade licens, men jag lyckades inte få dem att förstå att CC0 var det enda vettiga valet för data. De trodde att CC BY skulle skydda tillförlitligheten vid vidareanvändning och minska mängden felaktiga uppgifter som spreds. Deras ändring till en standardiserad licens var förstås ett steg i rätt riktning, men det var verkligen trist att de inte såg att värdet med att enkelt kunna återanvända korrekt data skulle få större effekt än kravet på CC BY.
Jag har tyvärr svårt att tro att ytterligare möten med nuvarande chefsgrupp kommer att ge något.
Tusen tack för svaret. Du kan lägga till Naturvårdsverket på listan där och säkert andra myndigheter enligt https://oppnadata.se
Tror du de skulle kunna hjälpa att prata med en relevant minister? Vilken minister i så fall?
Det verkar jo inte klokt att myndigheterna inte samspelar och ser till att vi som konsumerar datan (där Wikidata och OSM är dem största frivilligbaserade organisationerna) kan använda den. Datan är ju vår i grunden när den är framtagen av professionella myndighetspersoner för våra skattemedel. Det ger ju ingen mening att själv samma myndighetspersoner nu i praksis vägrar lämna ut den (genom att ställa orimliga krav för attribuering) fast att regeringen så vill. Om jag förstått rätt har ju ingen motsatt sig CC0 licens på tex Naturvårdsverkets ganska omfattande geodata. Detta tolkar jag som att det ligger i linje med regeringens och folkets önskan att datan ska vara fri och kunna användas. Så är inte fallet med SCBs så kallade öppna data.
Hej! Vi planerade tidigare att ha medlemsmötet den 9 november, och glömde bort att uppdaterade informationen i kalendern på webbplatsen när vi ändrade datumet. Tack för att du sa till! Det är uppdaterat nu.
Hello! A new beta feature has be deployed to your wiki last week: Reference Previews. As you might guess from the name, this feature gives you a preview of references in the article text. That means you can look up a reference without jumping down to the bottom of the page.
Reference Previews have already been a beta feature on German and Arabic Wikipedia since April. Now it's available on more wikis. More information can be found on the project page.
Feedback on this feature is highly appreciated. If you want to test Reference Previews, please activate the beta feature in your user preferences and let us know what you think. The best place for feedback is the central talk page. We hope the feature will serve you well in your work. Thank you from Wikimedia Deutschland's Technical Wishes project.
Hallå. The Readers Web team at the WMF will work on some improvements to the desktop interface over the next couple of years. The goal is to increase usability without removing any functionality. We have been inspired by changes made by volunteers, but that currently only exist as local gadgets and user scripts, prototypes, and volunteer-led skins. We would like to begin the process of bringing some of these changes into the default experience on all Wikimedia projects.
We are currently in the research stage of this project and are looking for ideas for improvements, as well as feedback on our current ideas and mockups. So far, we have performed interviews with community members at Wikimania. We have gathered lists of previous volunteer and WMF work in this area. We are examining possible technical approaches for such changes.
We would like individual feedback on the following:
Identifying focus areas for the project we have not yet discovered
Expanding the list of existing gadgets and user scripts that are related to providing a better desktop experience. If you can think of some of these from your wiki, please let us know
Feedback on the ideas and mockups we have collected so far
We would also like to gather a list of wikis that would be interested in being test wikis for this project - these wikis would be the first to receive the updates once we’re ready to start building.
When giving feedback, please consider the following goals of the project:
Make it easier for readers to focus on the content
Provide easier access to everyday actions (e.g. search, language switching, editing)
Put things in logical and useful places
Increase consistency in the interface with other platforms - mobile web and the apps
Eliminate clutter
Plan for future growth
As well as the following constraints:
Not touching the content - no work will be done in terms of styling templates or to the structure of page contents themselves
Not removing any functionality - things might move around, but all navigational items and other functionality currently available by default will remain
No drastic changes to the layout - we're taking an evolutionary approach to the changes and want the site to continue feeling familiar to readers and editors
After this round of feedback, we plan on building a prototype of suggested changes based on the feedback we receive. You’ll hear from us again asking for feedback on this prototype.
In a recent statement, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees requested that staff hold a consultation to "re-evaluat[e] or add community input to the two new office action policy tools (temporary and partial Foundation bans)".
Jag har gjort en ny översättning till Template:Appeal/default/sv som överensstämmer mer med den engelska förlagan. Jag hoppas att nån här har möjlighet att redigera den sidan. Och "min" översättning är ju inte skriven i sten heller. Nedan kommer mitt förslag:
Wikipedia är en av de mest besökta webbplatserna i världen.
Det är inget fel med handel. Annonsering är inte något ont. Men det hör inte hemma här. Inte på Wikipedia.
Wikipedia är något speciellt. Det är som ett bibliotek eller en allmän park. Det är som ett tempel för tänkandet. En plats vi kan gå till för att reflektera, lära oss och dela med av vår kunskap till andra.
När jag grundade Wikipedia kunde jag ha gjort det till ett vinstdrivande företag med annonser, men jag bestämde mig för att göra något annorlunda. Genom åren har vi jobbat hårt för att hålla organisationen liten och effektiv. Vi fullföljer effektivt vårt uppdrag.
Om alla som läser detta donerade lite, skulle vi bara behöva driva insamlingen en dag om året. Men alla har inte möjlighet att bidra. Och det är helt okej. Varje år bestämmer sig precis tillräckligt många för att ge sitt stöd.
Överväg att skänka {{AppealAmountSwitch|language=sv|country={{{country}}}|amount=all|$5, $20, $50}} i år. Eller det du kan undvara för att skydda och bevara Wikipedia.
Tack,
Jimmy Wales
Wikipedias grundare
Hi V2b7d47nua4cgjf9,
I’m writing to let you know that the Community Engagement department [1]at the Wikimedia Foundation is launching a new platform, Wikimedia Space. Here, you will find stories for and by contributors to the Wikimedia movement, and a space for discussions of different topics.
We know that finding information about Wikimedia activities and processes is very complicated, which makes the learning curve to enter our movement and be successful afterwards, really steep. By centralizing community stories and conversations in one shared space, we believe we are facilitating access and discoverability of topics across the movement, improving, in turn, connections among Wikimedians.
As an affiliated organization to the Wikimedia Foundation, we hope that you can share this platform with your local community, and we count on you to encourage them to add their voices. If you’d like to contribute stories, and overall, participate in the discussion section, please read our blogging guidelines and our code of conduct and join the conversation. Find more information about the project on its page on Meta.
Looking forward to seeing you at Wikimedia Space, María Cruz, Communications and Outreach Manager, Wikimedia Foundation. MediaWiki message delivery (diskussion) 25 juni 2019 kl. 19.53 (CEST)
