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Invitation to attend “Ask Me Anything about Movement Charter” Sessions

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Hello all,

During the 2022 Wikimedia Summit, the Movement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC) presented the first outline of the Movement Charter, giving a glimpse on the direction of its future work, and the Charter itself. The MCDC then integrated the initial feedback collected during the Summit. Before proceeding with writing the Charter for the whole Movement, the MCDC wants to interact with community members and gather feedback on the drafts of the three sections: Preamble, Values & Principles, and Roles & Responsibilities (intentions statement). The Movement Charter drafts will be available on the Meta page here on November 14, 2022. Community wide consultation period on MC will take place from November 20 to December 18, 2022. Learn more about it here.

With the goal of ensuring that people are well informed to fully participate in the conversations and are empowered to contribute their perspective on the Movement Charter, three “Ask Me Anything about Movement Charter" sessions have been scheduled in different time zones. Everyone in the Wikimedia Movement is invited to attend these conversations. The aim is to learn about Movement Charter - its goal, purpose, why it matters, and how it impacts your community. MCDC members will attend these sessions to answer your questions and hear community feedback.

The “Ask Me Anything” sessions accommodate communities from different time zones. Only the presentation of the session is recorded and shared afterwards, no recording of conversations. Below is the list of planned events:

• Asia/Pacific: November 4, 2022 at 09:00 UTC (your local time). Interpretation is available in Chinese and Japanese.
• Europe/MENA/Sub Saharan Africa: November 12, 2022 at 15:00 UTC (your local time). Interpretation is available in Arabic, French and Russian.
• North and South America/ Western Europe: November 12, 2022 at 15:00 UTC (your local time). Interpretation is available in Spanish and Portuguese.

On the Meta page you will find more details; Zoom links will be shared 48 hours ahead of the call.

Call for Movement Charter Ambassadors

Individuals or groups from all communities who wish to help include and start conversations in their communities on the Movement Charter are encouraged to become Movement Charter Ambassadors (MC Ambassadors). MC Ambassadors will carry out their own activities and get financial support for enabling conversations in their own languages. Regional facilitators from the Movement Strategy and Governance team are available to support applicants with MC Ambassadors grantmaking. If you are interested please sign up here. Should you have specific questions, please reach out to the MSG team via email: strategy2030@wikimedia.org or on the MS forum.

We thank you for your time and participation.

On behalf of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee,

MNadzikiewicz (WMF) (talk) 15:38, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

@MNadzikiewicz (WMF): Where is a text for:

• Preamble,
• Values & Principles,
• Roles & Responsibilities (intentions statement)?

Dušan Kreheľ (talk) 16:29, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

Hi @Dušan Kreheľ! As mentioned on the message:

"The Movement Charter drafts will be available on the Meta page here on November 14, 2022"

Cheers! MNadzikiewicz (WMF) (talk) 17:39, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

Global bot approval request for JhsBot

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In accordance to the policy, this message is to notify you that there is a new approval request for a global bot.

The discussion is available at Steward requests/Bot status#Global bot status for JhsBot on Meta-Wiki. All Wikimedia community members are invited to participate.

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Opportunities open for the Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee

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Hi everyone! The Ombuds commission (OC) and the Case Review Committee (CRC) are looking for members. People are encouraged to nominate themselves or encourage others they feel would contribute to these groups to do so. There is more information below about the opportunity and the skills that are needed.

About the Ombuds commission

The Ombuds commission (OC) works on all Wikimedia projects to investigate complaints about violations of the privacy policy, especially in use of CheckUser and Oversight (also known as Suppression) tools. The Commission mediates between the parties of the investigation and, when violations of the policies are identified, advises the Wikimedia Foundation on best handling. They may also assist the General Counsel, the Chief Executive Officer, or the Board of Trustees of the Foundation in these investigations when legally necessary. For more on the OC's duties and roles, see Ombuds commission on Meta-Wiki.

Volunteers serving in this role should be experienced Wikimedians, active on any project, who have previously used the CheckUser/Oversight tools OR who have the technical ability to understand these tools and the willingness to learn them. They must be able to communicate in English, the common language of the commission. They are expected to be able to engage neutrally in investigating these concerns and to know when to recuse when other roles and relationships may cause conflict. Commissioners will serve two-year terms (note that this is different from past years, when the terms have been for one year).

About the Case Review Committee

The Case Review Committee (CRC) reviews appeals of eligible Trust & Safety office actions. The CRC is a critical layer of oversight to ensure that Wikimedia Foundation office actions are fair and unbiased. They also make sure the Wikimedia Foundation doesn’t overstep established practices or boundaries. For more about the role, see Case Review Committee on Meta-Wiki.

We are looking for current or former functionaries and experienced volunteers with an interest in joining this group. Applicants must be fluent in English (additional languages are a strong plus) and willing to abide by the terms of the Committee charter. If the work resonates and you qualify, please apply. Committee members will serve two-year terms (note that this is different from past years, when the terms have been for one year).

Applying to join either of these groups

Members are required to sign the Confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information and must be willing to comply with the appropriate Wikimedia Foundation board policies (such as the access to non-public information policy and the Foundation privacy policy). These positions requires a high degree of discretion and trust. Members must also be over 18 years of age.

If you are interested in serving in either capacity listed above, please write in English to the Trust and Safety team at cawikimedia.org (to apply to the OC) or to the Legal Team at legalwikimedia.org (to apply to the CRC) with information about:

• Your primary projects
• Languages you speak/write
• Any experience you have serving on committees, whether movement or non-movement
• Your thoughts on what you could bring to the OC or CRC if appointed
• Any experience you have with the Checkuser or Oversight tools (OC only)
• Any other information you think is relevant

There will be two conversation hours to answer any questions that potential applicants may have:

• 17 October 2022, 03:00 UTC (other timezones) (Zoom meeting link) (add to calendar)
• 16 November 2022, 18:00 UTC (other timezones) (Zoom meeting link) (add to calendar)

The deadline for applications is 31 December 2022 in any timezone.

Please feel free to pass this invitation along to any users who you think may be qualified and interested. Thank you!

On behalf of the Committee Support team,

MNadzikiewicz (WMF) (talk) 11:09, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

Issue with Spring CEE 2022 regarding WMF funds

I need assistance regarding the Wikimedia CEE Spring 2022 event associated with these funds. The English Wikipedia edition of the event was never resolved. It ended on May 31, 2022, and no further information has been provided. The local English language organizer, User:KuboF Hromoslav, has not concluded the event and has not responded to messages. Both the Meta Wiki organizers and the English Wikipedia administrators have not been able to resolve this. It appears to me that either these funds were authorized and are now unaccounted for, or the English Wikipedia edition was not authorized as part of the project and it fraudulently claimed access to funds it did not have. Both of these seem to me to be very serious issues. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 06:07, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

@Thebiguglyalien: Hi, I'm Chris, the Regional Program Officer for our funding programs supporting the CEE region. Thanks for bringing these concerns to my attention, and for attempting to reach out to other organizers to resolve this problem. I am following up with the main organizers for CEE Spring 2022 and KuboF Hromoslav to ascertain what the circumstances are here and why they may be happening. I will also invite KuboF to respond here directly as the concerns relate to the English Wikipedia event page they appear to have been managing and responding to questions about earlier this year. I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 17:06, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

@Thebiguglyalien: I would like to inform you that the international team took over the localised contest on the English Wikipedia after we failed to get any response from KuboF as a local organiser. We followed the rules to evaluate the contributions made by all participants using the Programs & Events Dashboard tool to compile and publish the final standings and determine the prize winners. An announcement about the prize won was sent to all winners on their talk page, and they were further guided to contact Manfred Werner in order to claim the prize. After a few communities, for which prize funds were planned, did not participate in this year's contest, we managed to make a re-allocation. Best regards.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 13:05, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

Picture of the Year voting open

Voting is now open in the sixteenth annual Picture of the Year contest - please vote! There is one week left for voting in the first round.

Any user with more than 75 edits before Jan. 1, 2022 is eligible to vote; if you're not sure the voting tool will automatically check for you. If you have any questions, please see the help page.

Thanks! Legoktm (talk) 15:58, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

Userboxes to create

Not sure if this is the right place, but i am requesting for someone to create these (Wikimedia-related) userboxes and place them in one of the galleries (you can choose the font, colours, sizes, etc.)

This user is against excessively using shortcuts and warning templates, especially around newcomers.

(choose the image, maybe two)

This user helps fight the template:Citation Needed backlog with wp:Citation hunt. You can, too.

¦This user loves the pipe trick and thinks you should know about it.

This user is kind of amazed at how many Wikimedia wikis there are.

Something to do with the Requests for new languages

(both here and WP)

thanks 163.116.130.27 15:39, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

Error after updating the Wikipedia interface

Hello everyone.

I am Kyrgyz Wikipedian. Various problems have arisen in some language sections of Wikipedia in connection with the interface update (Vector 2022). The corresponding tasks were set in the Fhabricator (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T321931 moved to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T322041). But this process is dragging on. Who is responsible for the interface update process ? Why are the problems of small Wikipedia not solved as quickly as those of large ones ? Bosogo (talk) 09:51, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

@Bosogo there are ~268 open tasks related to "Desktop improvements" right now, with over 200 of them being older that those tickets, so the mostly volunteer developers are not being extra slow on these ones - the entire process is slow. — xaosflux ^Talk 16:03, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

Hello @Bosogo, thank you for writing here. I'm truly sorry to hear that you're facing this issue and that you feel it's taking too much time. On Phabricator, you've already talked to the right people: Jon and Alex, members of the team working on Vector 2022. I'll talk to them, and to Olga, and try to figure out what's the reason why the logo hasn't been changed yet. SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 00:35, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

Hello @SGrabarczuk (WMF). Thank you for your assistance) Bosogo (talk) 14:06, 23 November 2022 (UTC)