The Foundation Global Advocacy team launched a public mapping project to collect all initiatives and tools that have been developed at the local level across Wikimedia projects, and make them easily accessible and available to the movement at large. Crowdsourcing this information will allow us to support our community better, thereby improving Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects’ protection against disinformation. We need your help to do so. If you are aware of an initiative, tool, training, or other form of community engagement around misinformation, disinformation, or information integrity, please let us know.

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/08/09/help-wikimedia-counter-disinformation/

We are currently in the mapping process - we've had many conversations with folks across the movement and have compiled the resources they shared. NEXT we will share them (and we need help/input on how/where to share and host these learning materials); THEN we will identify a few of the tools or programmes that we came across and try to replicate these at scale to better counter disinformation (we will need folks to dedicate time to help is scale some of these selected projects).

Advocating for the adoption of Freedom of Panorama and Fair Use into South African copyright right law.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_South_Africa/Copyright_Amendment_Bill#Passage_of_the_bill

The communications department at the Wikimedia Foundation is hosting a global contest to identify a sound logo for Wikimedia projects. Particularly, to future proof Wikimedia for audio-only devices, virtual assistants, etc.

https://soundlogo.wikimedia.org/ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Sound_Logo

We've been exploring and discussing the set up of a regional?, linguistic? hub in Latin America.

On the 1st of July 2022, I facilitated a collaboration of Yoruba Wikimedians User Group c with Mr Macaroni, a multi award-wining Nigerian comic skit maker, actor with millions of followers on various social media to produced short comic skit to promote the Yoruba language Wikipedia. The project was implemented between March 2022 and August 2022. The project idea came up in 2021 when we reviewed the movement strategy recommendations that focuses on increase the sustainability of our movement.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mr_Macaroni_Skit_for_Yoruba_Wikipedia

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A thematic network aspiring to be a future thematic hub which will work on Bengali language, culture and heritage. The network is being collaboratively built by West Bengal Wikimedians User Group and Wikimedia Bangladesh

Developing an online course and delivering it online or in person to potential new editors using the peer learning methodology of Learning Circles.

https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AWMROMD%2FCursuri%2FCerc_de_%C3%AEnv%C4%83%C8%9Bare?wprov=sfla1

Bangla Wikimaitree is a language based collaboration network between the Wikimedia Bangladesh chapter and West Bengal Wikimedians User Group. From this network we are working together to enrich the contents regarding to Bangla language and culture.

https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/বাংলা_উইকিমৈত্রী

We gathered teenagers from low-income families, took them to a place, and let them take a picture of the place with their smart phones. We rented laptops for them and tough how to upload their pictures on Wikimedia Commons, and share the photos on Wikipedia.

Over the past year, a group of representatives from various affiliates and the Wikimedia Foundation have started meeting virtually to share knowledge across groups around various fundraising approaches. The group has formed organically over time and we are discussing how to increase participation and share resources more widely across the movement.

To establish the Wikipedia editions of Taiwanese aboriginal languages for preserving languages and culture of individual aboriginal group categorized as varieties of Austronesian languages.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Taiwan/IncuWPTA/en

WMID currently oversees 14 local Wikimedia communities in Indonesia. We support and encourage their efforts by providing grants. This provides a way and space for them to innovate with new and solid practices among their members.

* https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Indonesia/Hibah * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Indonesia/Dana_Wiki

"Dagbani Wikipedia Saha" is a tele-education pilot program that is intended to recruit volunteers and train more people who may otherwise not be able to attend the in-person workshops/training because of their location, time, and proximity to workshop venues, among others. The program is a piloted initiative by the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group in collaboration with NTV, a northern-based digital TV station.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Education/News/April_2022/Dagbani_Wikimedians_using_digital_TV_broadcast_to_train_Wikipedia_contributors_in_Ghana&oldid=23776340

From August to December 2021, the Art+Feminism leadership team (Mohammed Sadat Abdulai, Amber Berson, Melissa Tamani, Kira Wisniewski, Nina Yeboah) took an organizational pause on all regularly scheduled programmatic activities to prioritize creating internal anti-oppression policies and mechanisms. This, in a way, became our programming. The leadership team became deeply engaged in this work by: participating in ongoing meetings, readings and discussions, working through past trauma, examining how white supremacy/Anglo Saxon practices perpetuate in our everyday work culture (such as sense of urgency and centering/overrepresenting U.S. culture), and creating operational definitions of concepts like equity and racism. We specifically focused on developing an anti-racism policy to be implemented across the organization and inform new work culture practices rooted in restorative justice. We do not want to have just words on a page, but rather move Art+Feminism toward a cultural shift with established policies and protocols that help the organization be more consistent with its values. We also envision regular org-wide trainings in the future to help us all be in alignment with this work. This is important and hard work that takes time. As a team, we believe that we are a stronger organization now that we have the anti-racism policy and equity statement in place. We are committed to continuing on this trajectory as these two protocols are the first steps to sustainable change. We hope that you are able to take a moment to review both the new policy and statement below (available currently in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese) and are as enthusiastic as we are to carry out the mission of Art+Feminism together.

https://artandfeminism.org/artfeminism-anti-racism-policy-equity-statement/

We dedicate each quarter to one of the themes (Wikigap, Human rights, Czech Wiki Photo and Czechoslovakia 48'-89') and connect them with activities across educational, community and partnership programs. This means a series of activities - a competition for the experienced community and newcomers, editathons, educational events for seniors and students and support of partners across the topic - public institutions and NGOs. This brings concentration on different target groups, but also PR potential and connecting the efforts of the entire team and the community.

https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:WikiGap_2022 https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:WikiProjekt_Lidsk%C3%A1_pr%C3%A1va https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Czech_Wiki_Photo https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:WikiProjekt_%C4%8Ceskoslovensko_1948%E2%80%931989/Sout%C4%9B%C5%BE

Three-yearly survey among national editing community, focussing on diversity, editing experience, opinions about key challenges, opinions on working climate etc

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Onderzoek_onder_bewerkers_2022 https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Survey_2022

it’s a training program launched by the Education team of the Wikimedia Foundation. Its main goal is to help teachers understand and leverage Wikipedia as a learning tool for media and information literacy.

https://wikimediafoundation.org/our-work/education/reading-wikipedia-in-the-classroom/ https://www.facebook.com/eduwikimorocco

This project is to help increase accessibility to online complimentary educational resources using offline tools in Schools.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kiwix4Schools_Project https://www.wikiinafrica.org/videos/episode-9-the-offline-tech-bridge/

Thank you.

The communities in the northern region have interesting stories about how they came into existence. These stories haven't been documented and are necessary to be documented so that it's not lost to the generations to come.

No link yet

This is an idea I intend to implement

Redefine the system of grantmaking to align with the strategic direction.

Explanation of relaunch process ://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunch_2020-2021 Feedback report from applicants and regional fund committee after round 1 https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Grants:Knowledge_Sharing/Reports/Feedback_Report:_Wikimedia_Community_Fund_Round_1 First year funds distribution report https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Reports/Funding_Report_2021-2022

Full year and evaluation reports coming with learning and sharing sessions.

We are in the process of learning more about how movement affiliates are thinking about how they would like to create or expand their fundraising activities. I would like to learn how the Wikimedia Foundation might support building skills or services to support fundraising efforts. We plan to pilot a training session in the coming months.

Please also see Julia Brungs' Fundraising peer learning group activity.

Ensuring that communities have equitable access to resources needed to implement the strategy

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:MSIG/About

A movement data and global data mapping project [1,2,3] to have better statistics about how and where people are engaging in the Wikimedia Movement ecosystem [4] and where those signals are increasing or decreasing comparatively. Aiming to build a shared understanding of our best presence and growth metrics in our Wikiverse for understanding our movement ecosystem spaces of readers, editors, program & event organizing, affiliates, & grantees against population metrics (population, internet users, freedom, and access).

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Data_and_Insights_Team/Movement_Data/Equity_Landscape [2] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/12/15/measuring-our-movement-ecosystem-a-need-for-a-more-diverse-datascape/ [3] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/06/24/equity-landscape-data-community-pilot-results-next-steps/ [4] The ecosystem map from Phase I Movement Strategy: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Strategy_Graphic.svg#/media/File:Strategy_Graphic.svg

Calls to action: (1) If you are a community data user or data curator and wish to participate more fully in the extension of the pilot, (2) If you are part of a strategic Wikimedia organizing or governance group interested in attending a demonstration workshop OR (3) If you are just interested to learn more Please reach out!

We are building a tool that will allow us to continuously capture data from all the tools we use to measure statistics and metrics for our activities and programs, as well as statistics from Wikimedia projects, and track and evaluate them over time. For the creation of the tool, we secured funding from a grant aimed at supporting the growth of the organization's capacities. We are behind the analytical part, we plan to complete it in August 2023.

User experience improvements to the desktop reading experience for the wikis, meant to make the wiki easy to read and welcoming for new readers who have modern expectations for websites.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements

THE PROBLEM: We often hear of features, functionality and improvements that the Community wants which have already been implemented. This tells us that we need to do a better job of announcing and socializing the user experience improvements we release. IDEA: Make short, shareable videos of new features and improvements. Ensure the videos can be captioned in many languages. Share these on Village Pumps and with interest groups across the Movement. Create a repository of these videos for access later.

Integrate the Matrix.org chat system with the Wikimedia ecosystem, asa replacement for IRC and various proprietary tools like Telegram.

https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Matrix.org

Connecting and getting to know with the people who are joining the movement.

Hi, I'm here on behalf of Myanmar script user wiki-contributors. Many people from our country are currently having internet connectivity issues. We can only hope that the country's situation gets better. Meanwhile, we would fine more ways to contribute, keep documenting and get to know more about what more we can do to help. Thanks!

Upgrades to Talk Pages so that they are intuitive for new editors and easy for experienced editors. Preserving them as wiki pages while adding functionality so that they are easily used for discussions.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_project

The Community Wishlist Survey is an annual survey that allows contributors to the Wikimedia projects to propose and vote for tools and platform improvements. Have you ever needed to see an improvement in the functionality of the Wiki software? Do you have an idea for a new tool to make the platforms more usable and functional? Do you want to support someone else's idea for such an improvement? Participating in the Survey is just the way to make that happen. By participating in the Community Wishlist Survey, you can affect what platform changes the Community Tech, a Wikimedia Foundation team is working on. You can also work with the Community Tech to build these tools.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey/FAQ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey/Help_us

The creation of the Community Tech team is a direct outcome of requests from core contributors for improved support for moderation tools, bots, and the other features that help the Wikimedia projects succeed. This survey process was developed by Wikimedia Deutschland's Technical Wishes team, who run a wishlist survey on the German-language Wikipedia. In November, 2015, Community Tech conducted the first Community Wishlist Survey, to help identify the features and fixes that are most important to Wikimedia editors. The team invited contributors from all Wikimedia projects to submit proposals. After two weeks of collecting proposals, the team asked them to vote on the proposals they were most interested in. The process has been repeated every year since and it has been an integral part of staying connected with the Communities to support Knowledge as a Service and Knowledge equity. It is strongly related to the #2 and #4 Recommendations in Movement Strategy.

Wiki experiences for new editors so they can get started with editing by themselves on the wikis. Machine-learning suggested edits and mentorship features.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth