Let's Connect Newsletter/Archive/2023/Issue 14

Let’s Connect Newsletter Issue 14

What is happening in Let’s Connect this month

Welcome to February’s issue of the Let’s Connect monthly newsletter. This Month started off with a great connectathon by the working group with the theme “Lets Connect with Love.” In the subsequent months we will try and be more language inclusive in how we communicate and improve further on the works we already have been doing in that regard.

On a rather lighter note the Guinness World Records officially published the Longest edit-a-thon record accomplished by Polish Wikimedians with the help from Wikimedia Poland last September 😃 The current record is 100 hours! 🤯.

Did you miss Learning Clinics - no worries!

Let's Connect Learning Clinic: Partnership Building Case Study with Wikimedia Indonesia. Find this session's resources here: video recording and Presentation slides.
Let's Connect Learning Clinic: Reform + Advocacy with Wikimedia Colombia and Wikimedia Italia. Find this session's resources here: video recording and Presentation slides.

What Learning Clinics can you start getting excited about?

Let's Connect Learning Clinic: Building A Wikimedia Affiliate.

👉 What is this Learning Clinic for? 🤔 This clinic will show creative ways of raising awareness, engage in activities to raise awareness and participate in policy discussions around copyright issues. To do this, we will examine case studies from Wikimedia Indonesia and Wikimedia Sweden. Participants will be encouraged to recognise the public policy and political impacts of their work.

👉 What do I need to prepare? 🧠 Find the recording of the previous session here.

Register Here.

Other learning opportunities in the Movement

From February 7 - February 27 2024 Steward elections voting is running until 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC).

News from Movement Strategy

From the outcome of the Wikimedia Foundation Affiliate Strategy process. Feedback is being by invited on proposed requirements for affiliates & user groups recognition.

To provide your feedback, please review the page here, on Meta, and leave comments on the talk page. Alternatively, you can join an open call (February 14 and 28 at 14:00 to 14:30 UTC) or request a conversation as a part of Talking:2024. You can use the Wikimedia Foundation Community Affairs Committee/Talking: 2024#Let’s Talk|Let’s Talk feature to sign up for a time to speak with me and other trustees about this conversation or any other topic regarding the Wikimedia Foundation Board, Movement Strategy, and more.

Check out WIKIMOVEs first episode of the year!

In this episode they cover the topic of Grants and Hubs. They talk with two women who have been instrumental in implementing Movement strategy. Yop Rwan Pam tells about the WMF Movement strategy grant program, how it works and some of the innovative ideas it already has helped to bring on the road. Barbara Klen shares about the Central and Eastern European Hub, how it started and how it is going.

Story from Let’s Connect

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Resource to check out:

There may be certain opportunities for contributing to Wikimedia content by covering cultural, political, or trade events and doing original photography or editing Wikipedia/Wikidata content.

This Meta page is to document some of the more notable efforts within the Wikimedia movement, as well as provide pointers to relevant tools and best practices.

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