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Wikimedia International Update Corner September 2023
Unfortunately summer is already over in some countries and nearing its end in others, but fortunately there is a new series of events and meetings coming up in the next two months to make the nearing winter season more bearable!
- News and current calls for feedback
- The CEE Hub has published an overview of the Grant proposal for 2024. You can comment on the talk page or send your ideas and feedback to User:BKlen-CEEhub and/or User:TRistovski-CEEhub. The draft will be discussed at the CEE Meeting 2023 and finalised by the end of September before being sent to the Wikimedia Foundation.
- The drafts of three sections of the Movement Charter were published in July and early August and will also be discussed at the CEE Meeting 2023:
- Global Council: The draft for the global council is waiting for feedback and reading the already existing feedback on the talk page is worthwhile too. You can discuss this in your community as well and compare it with the 2030 strategy recommendations. Other communities have already commented on the differences, but adding more opinion and voices to the talk page is helpful in showing that these concerns are shared by many different people. Based on the current feedback this draft might undergo the most fundamental changes, but that is up to the Movement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC).
- Hubs: This draft tries to define the current situation around hub projects and how we want to work together on a regional and thematic level. The feedback so far has been positive in terms of what the draft describes, but also highlights the need to accommodate hub projects that might not follow the example of Wikimedia Europe or the Wikimedia CEE Hub.
- Roles and Responsibilities: Probably the least developed of the three drafts and still needs some refinement based on the feedback on the other two drafts. Certain parts of the roles and responsibilities have also been outsourced to other parts of the charter.
- Upcoming meetings & conferences from September to November
- Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2023 - the big regional meeting in our region! Around 150 people will gather in Tbilisi, Georgia, to work on regional projects and discuss the future of the CEE Hub. Should you want to take part online, you can do so in most sessions. You can also find the details for each session in the programme.
- WikiConvention francophone/2023 - held on September 22-23 in the French speaking parts of the world, this conference revolves around French Wikimedia projects and is being held in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. It is unclear yet if they will have live streams or not, but you can check their page closer to the event.
- WikiCon 2023 - held on September 29 to October 1 in Linz, Austria, it covers the German speaking Wikimedia projects. There will be live streams for the sessions marked in green.
- Turkic Wikimedia Conference 2023 - held on October 20-22 in Istanbul, Turkey, it is a conference for the Turkic languages. No information yet on live streams or summaries, but you can check their page closer to the event for more information.
- WikiIndaba 2023 - November 3 - 5 in Agadir, Morocco, the regional conference for Africa. Topics will include discussions on regional African networks and improvements to the Wikimedia infrastructure on the continent. The live stream capacity is not yet known.
- Recordings of past meetings & conferences in August
- Wikimania 2023 A summary of the event can be found in this newsletter, you can also find the livestreams from each room and each day on the Wikimedia Foundation Youtube account. Hopefully at some point it will be possible to find the recording for each individual sessions, but until then you will have to compare the schedule on Eventyay with the Youtube recordings and skip through a 7 hour long video until you find the session you want to watch.