Let's Connect Newsletter/Archive/2023/Issue 22
Let’s Connect Newsletter Issue 22
What is happening in Let’s Connect January 2025
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Welcome to January’s issue of the Let’s Connect monthly newsletter. Happy New Year to all Let’s Connect participants and welcome to 2025. January has been a month for reflection and a renewed sense of purpose for the work we do at Let’s Connect.
Wikipedia turned 24!!! 🎂
Did you miss Learning Clinics - no worries!
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December was an outreach month for us at Let’s Connect and we are excited to have reached out to other sister projects in the Wikimedia movement. We are curious to know if you are active in sister projects outside of Wikipedia. Please let us know, we would love to hear your story!
- Wiktionary
- Wikiquote
- Wikibooks
- Wikimedia Commons
- Wikisource
- Wikiversity
- Wikispecies
- Wikidata
- Wikifunctions
- MediaWiki
- Wikivoyage
- Wikinews
- Meta-Wiki
What Learning Clinics can you start getting excited about?
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- Learning clinic - WikiLearn essentials for course creators: Building community skills through online learning. *To capture two different time zones for this learning clinic we will be hosting this learning clinic in two different time zones.
- Time zone #1 - February 6, 2025 @ 1pm - 3pm UTC
Registration link: Registration Form
- Time zone #2 -February 13, 2025 @ time to be determined
Registration link: TBC
Let’s Connect February Connectathon
[edit]We have our next Connectathon in February led by Jessica Stephenson
- Topic: Overview of the Let’s Connect evaluation report.
Other learning opportunities in the Movement
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- For 24 years, Wikipedia has been a hub for sharing knowledge across the world – and it’s all thanks to you. Over the last two decades, you’ve helped shape a platform that connects people worldwide to the information they need. Read more here.
- Fellow Wikimedians, the deadline for submitting expressions of interest for Wikimania 2027 is next week, Monday, January 27, 2025 at 23:59 AoE (UTC-12). The Wikimania conference committee is inviting regional or linguistic community groups to submit proposals to host the future Wikimania. It is a fantastic chance to engage your region and contribute to the global Wikimedia movement. Visit the Wikimania Expression of Interest page to know more: Wikimania Expression of Interest.
Story from Let’s Connect
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- This year we are excited to continue to share the stories of all Let’s Connectors doing amazing work in their respective communities. We will be reaching out to hear your stories and be sharing them with the whole Wikimedia movement.
Resource to check out:
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- Check out the WikiLearn platform.
- Have you checked out the Let’s Connect resources page on Meta. It has all resources shared from our Learning clinics back in 2024.