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The Call for Feedback: Board of Trustees elections is now closed [सम्पादयतु]
The Call for Feedback: Board of Trustees elections is now closed. This Call ran from 10 January and closed on 16 February 2022. The Call focused on three key questions and received broad discussion on Meta-wiki, during meetings with affiliates, and in various community conversations. The community and affiliates provided many proposals and discussion points. The reports are on Meta-wiki.
This information will be shared with the Board of Trustees and Elections Committee so they can make informed decisions about the upcoming Board of Trustees election. The Board of Trustees will then follow with an announcement after they have discussed the information.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the Call for Feedback to help improve Board election processes.
Thank you,
Movement Strategy and Governance
CSinha (WMF) (चर्चा) ०८:२१, ५ मार्च् २०२२ (UTC)
UCoC Enforcement Guidelines Ratification Vote Begins (7 - 21 March 2022)[सम्पादयतु]
The ratification of the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) enforcement guidelines has started. Every eligible community member can vote.
For instructions on voting using SecurePoll and Voting eligibility, please read this. The last date to vote is 21 March 2022.
Vote here - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/vote/391
Thank you, CSinha (WMF) (चर्चा) १७:१५, ७ मार्च् २०२२ (UTC)
CIS-A2K Newsletter February 2022[सम्पादयतु]

Dear Wikimedians,
Hope you are doing well. As you know CIS-A2K updated the communities every month about their previous work through the Newsletter. This message is about February 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned our conducted events, ongoing events and upcoming events.
- Conducted events
- Wikimedia session with WikiProject Rivers team
- Indic Wikisource online meetup
- m:International Mother Language Day 2022 edit-a-thon
- Wikimedia Commons workshop for Rotary Water Olympiad team
- Ongoing events
- Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon March 2022 - You can still participate in this event which will run till tomorrow.
- Upcoming Events
- International Women's Month 2022 edit-a-thon - The event is 19-20 March and you can add your name for the participation.
- Pune Nadi Darshan 2022 - The event is going to start by tomorrow.
- Annual proposal - CIS-A2K is currently working to prepare our next annual plan for the period 1 July 2022 – 30 June 2023
Please find the Newsletter link here. Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 08:58, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)
Pune Nadi Darshan 2022: A campaign cum photography contest[सम्पादयतु]
Dear Wikimedians,
Greetings for the Holi festival! CIS-A2K is glad to announce a campaign cum photography contest, Pune Nadi Darshan 2022, organised jointly by Rotary Water Olympiad and CIS-A2K on the occasion of ‘World Water Week’. This is a pilot campaign to document the rivers in the Pune district on Wikimedia Commons. The campaign period is from 16 March to 16 April 2022.
Under this campaign, participants are expected to click and upload the photos of rivers in the Pune district on the following topics -
- Beauty of rivers in Pune district
- Flora & fauna of rivers in Pune district
- Religious & cultural places around rivers in Pune district
- Human activities at rivers in Pune district
- Constructions on rivers in Pune district
- River Pollution in Pune district
Please visit the event page for more details. We welcome your participation in this campaign. Thank you MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) ०७:१९, १५ मार्च् २०२२ (UTC)
On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)
Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines ratification voting is now closed[सम्पादयतु]
Greetings,
The ratification voting process for the revised enforcement guidelines of the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) came to a close on 21 March 2022. Over 2300 Wikimedians voted across different regions of our movement. Thank you to everyone who participated in this process! The scrutinizing group is now reviewing the vote for accuracy, so please allow up to two weeks for them to finish their work.
The final results from the voting process will be announced here, along with the relevant statistics and a summary of comments as soon as they are available. Please check out the voter information page to learn about the next steps. You can comment on the project talk page on Meta-wiki in any language.
You may also contact the UCoC project team by email: ucocprojectwikimedia.org
Best regards,
CSinha (WMF) (चर्चा) ०९:५४, २३ मार्च् २०२२ (UTC)
Announcing Indic Hackathon 2022 and Scholarship Applications[सम्पादयतु]
Dear Wikimedians, we are happy to announce that the Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group will be organizing Indic Hackathon 2022, a regional event as part of the main Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 taking place in a hybrid mode during 20-22 May 2022. The event will take place in Hyderabad. The regional event will be in-person with support for virtual participation. As it is with any hackathon, the event’s program will be semi-structured i.e. while we will have some sessions in sync with the main hackathon event, the rest of the time will be upto participants’ interest on what issues they are interested to work on. The event page can be seen on this page.
In this regard, we would like to invite community members who would like to attend in-person to fill out a form for scholarship application by 17 April, which is available on the event page. Please note that the hackathon won’t be focusing on training of new skills, and it is expected that applications have some experience/knowledge contributing to technical areas of the Wikimedia movement. Please post on the event talk page if you have any queries. MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) १८:३१, ७ एप्रिल् २०२२ (UTC)
CIS-A2K Newsletter March 2022[सम्पादयतु]

Dear Wikimedians,
Hope you are doing well. As you know CIS-A2K updated the communities every month about their previous work through the Newsletter. This message is about March 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned our conducted events and ongoing events.
- Conducted events
- Wikimedia session in Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh
- Launching of the GLAM project with RIWATCH, Roing, Arunachal Pradesh
- Wikimedia Commons workshop for Rotary Water Olympiad team
- m:International Women's Month 2022 edit-a-thon
- m:Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon March 2022
- Relicensing & digitisation of books, audios, PPTs and images in March 2022
- Presentation on A2K Research in a session on 'Building Multilingual Internets'
- Ongoing events
- Wikimedia Commons workshop for Rotary Water Olympiad team
- Two days of edit-a-thon by local communities [Punjabi & Santali]
Please find the Newsletter link here. Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 09:33, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)
Extension of Pune Nadi Darshan 2022: A campaign cum photography contest[सम्पादयतु]
Dear Wikimedians,
As you already know, Pune Nadi Darshan is a campaign cum photography contest on Wikimedia Commons organised jointly by Rotary Water Olympiad and CIS-A2K. The contest started on 16 March on the occasion of World Water Week and received a good response from citizens as well as organisations working on river issues.
Taking into consideration the feedback from the volunteers and organisations about extending the deadline of 16 April, the organisers have decided to extend the contest till 16 May 2022. Some leading organisations have also shown interest in donating their archive and need a sufficient time period for the process.
We are still mainly using these topics which are mentioned below.
- Beauty of rivers in Pune district
- Flora & fauna of rivers in Pune district
- Religious & cultural places around rivers in Pune district
- Human activities at rivers in Pune district
- Constructions on rivers in Pune district
- River Pollution in Pune district
Anyone can participate still now, so, we appeal to all Wikimedians to contribute to this campaign to enrich river-related content on Wikimedia Commons. For more information, you can visit the event page.
Regards Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 04:58, 17 April 2022 (UTC)
On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)
Join the South Asia / ESEAP Annual Plan Meeting with Maryana Iskander[सम्पादयतु]
Dear community members,
In continuation of Maryana Iskander's listening tour, the Movement Communications and Movement Strategy and Governance teams invite you to discuss the 2022-23 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan.
The conversations are about these questions:
- The 2030 Wikimedia Movement Strategy sets a direction toward "knowledge as a service" and "knowledge equity". The Wikimedia Foundation wants to plan according to these two goals. How do you think the Wikimedia Foundation should apply them to our work?
- The Wikimedia Foundation continues to explore better ways of working at a regional level. We have increased our regional focus in areas like grants, new features, and community conversations. How can we improve?
- Anyone can contribute to the Movement Strategy process. We want to know about your activities, ideas, requests, and lessons learned. How can the Wikimedia Foundation better support the volunteers and affiliates working in Movement Strategy activities?
Date and Time
The meeting will happen via Zoom on 24 April (Sunday) at 07:00 UTC (local time). Kindly add the event to your calendar. Live interpretation will be available for some languages.
Regards, CSinha (WMF) (चर्चा) १०:२१, १७ एप्रिल् २०२२ (UTC)
New Wikipedia Library Collections Available Now - April 2022[सम्पादयतु]
Hello Wikimedians!
The Wikipedia Library has free access to new paywalled reliable sources. You can these and dozens more collections at https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/:
- Wiley – journals, books, and research resources, covering life, health, social, and physical sciences
- OECD – OECD iLibrary, Data, and Multimedia published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
- SPIE Digital Library – journals and eBooks on optics and photonics applied research
Many other sources are freely available for experienced editors, including collections which recently became accessible to all eligible editors: Cambridge University Press, BMJ, AAAS, Érudit and more.
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: log in today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team १३:१७, २६ एप्रिल् २०२२ (UTC)
- This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.
Call for Candidates: 2022 Board of Trustees Election[सम्पादयतु]
Dear community members,
The 2022 Board of Trustees elections process has begun. The Call for Candidates has been announced.
The Board of Trustees oversees the operations of the Wikimedia Foundation. Community-and-affiliate selected trustees and Board-appointed trustees make up the Board of Trustees. Each trustee serves a three year term. The Wikimedia community has the opportunity to vote for community-and-affiliate selected trustees.
The Wikimedia community will vote to elect two seats on the Board of Trustees in 2022. This is an opportunity to improve the representation, diversity, and expertise of the Board of Trustees.
Kindly submit your candidacy to join the Board of Trustees. CSinha (WMF) (चर्चा) ०९:००, २९ एप्रिल् २०२२ (UTC)
CIS-A2K Newsletter April 2022[सम्पादयतु]

Dear Wikimedians,
I hope you are doing well. As you know CIS-A2K updated the communities every month about their previous work through the Newsletter. This message is about April 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned our conducted events, ongoing events and upcoming events.
- Conducted events
- Annual Proposal Submission
- Digitisation session with Dakshin Bharat Jain Sabha
- Training sessions of organisations working on river issues
- Two days edit-a-thon by local communities
- Digitisation review and partnerships in Goa
- Let's Connect: Learning Clinic on Qualitative Evaluation Methods
- Ongoing events
- Upcoming event
Please find the Newsletter link here. Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 15:47, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election 2022 - Call for Election Volunteers[सम्पादयतु]
The Movement Strategy and Governance team is looking for community members to serve as election volunteers in the upcoming Board of Trustees election.
The idea of the Election Volunteer Program came up during the 2021 Wikimedia Board of Trustees Election. This program turned out to be successful. With the help of Election Volunteers we were able to increase outreach and participation in the election by 1,753 voters over 2017. Overall turnout was 10.13%, 1.1 percentage points more, and 214 wikis were represented in the election.
There were a total of 74 wikis that did not participate in 2017 that produced voters in the 2021 election. Can you help increase the participation even more?
Election volunteers will help in the following areas:
- Translate short messages and announce the ongoing election process in community channels
- Optional: Monitor community channels for community comments and questions
Volunteers should:
- Maintain the friendly space policy during conversations and events
- Present the guidelines and voting information to the community in a neutral manner
Do you want to be an election volunteer and ensure your community is represented in the vote? Sign up here to receive updates. You can use the talk page for questions about translation.
CSinha (WMF) (चर्चा) १०:३१, १२ मे २०२२ (UTC)
CIS-A2K Newsletter May 2022[सम्पादयतु]

Dear Wikimedians,
I hope you are doing well. As you know CIS-A2K updated the communities every month about their previous work through the Newsletter. This message is about May 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned our conducted events and ongoing and upcoming events.
- Conducted events
- Punjabi Wikisource Community skill-building workshop
- Wikimedia Commons workshop for Rotary Water Olympiad team
- Ongoing events
- Upcoming event
Please find the Newsletter link here.
If you want to subscribe/unsubscibe this newsletter, click here.
Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 12:23, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)
June Month Celebration 2022 edit-a-thon[सम्पादयतु]
Dear Wikimedians,
CIS-A2K announced June month mini edit-a-thon which is going to take place on 25 & 26 June 2022 (on this weekend). The motive of conducting this edit-a-thon is to celebrate June Month which is also known as pride month.
This time we will celebrate the month, which is full of notable days, by creating & developing articles on local Wikimedia projects, such as proofreading the content on Wikisource if there are any, items that need to be created on Wikidata [edit Labels & Descriptions], some June month related content must be uploaded on Wikimedia Commons and so on. It will be a two-days long edit-a-thon to increase content about the month of June or related to its days, directly or indirectly. Anyone can participate in this event and the link you can find here. Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 12:46, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)
Propose statements for the 2022 Election Compass[सम्पादयतु]
Hi all,
Community members are invited to propose statements to use in the Election Compass for the 2022 Board of Trustees election.
An Election Compass is a tool to help voters select the candidates that best align with their beliefs and views. The community members will propose statements for the candidates to answer using a Lickert scale (agree/neutral/disagree). The candidates’ answers to the statements will be loaded into the Election Compass tool. Voters will use the tool by entering in their answer to the statements (agree/neutral/disagree). The results will show the candidates that best align with the voter’s beliefs and views.
Here is the timeline for the Election Compass:
- July 8 - 20: Community members propose statements for the Election Compass
- July 21 - 22: Elections Committee reviews statements for clarity and removes off-topic statements
- July 23 - August 1: Volunteers vote on the statements
- August 2 - 4: Elections Committee selects the top 15 statements
- August 5 - 12: candidates align themselves with the statements
- August 15: The Election Compass opens for voters to use to help guide their voting decision
The Elections Committee will select the top 15 statements at the beginning of August. The Elections Committee will oversee the process, supported by the Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team. MSG will check that the questions are clear, there are no duplicates, no typos, and so on.
Regards,
Movement Strategy & Governance
This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee
CSinha (WMF) (चर्चा) ०८:२२, १२ जुलै २०२२ (UTC)
CIS-A2K Newsletter June 2022[सम्पादयतु]

Dear Wikimedians,
Hope you are doing well. As you know CIS-A2K updated the communities every month about their previous work through the Newsletter. This message is about June 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned A2K's conducted events.
- Conducted events
- Assamese Wikisource Community skill-building workshop
- June Month Celebration 2022 edit-a-thon
- Presentation in Marathi Literature conference
Please find the Newsletter link here.
If you want to subscribe/unsubscibe this newsletter, click here.
Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 12:23, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)
Board of Trustees - Affiliate Voting Results[सम्पादयतु]
Dear community members,
The Affiliate voting process has concluded. Representatives from each Affiliate organization learned about the candidates by reading candidates’ statements, reviewing candidates’ answers to questions, and considering the candidates’ ratings provided by the Analysis Committee. The shortlisted 2022 Board of Trustees candidates are:
- Tobechukwu Precious Friday (Tochiprecious)
- Farah Jack Mustaklem (Fjmustak)
- Shani Evenstein Sigalov (Esh77)
- Kunal Mehta (Legoktm)
- Michał Buczyński (Aegis Maelstrom)
- Mike Peel (Mike Peel)
See more information about the Results and Statistics of this election.
Please take a moment to appreciate the Affiliate representatives and Analysis Committee members for taking part in this process and helping to grow the Board of Trustees in capacity and diversity. Thank you for your participation.
The next part of the Board election process is the community voting period. View the election timeline here. To prepare for the community voting period, there are several things community members can engage with, in the following ways:
- Read candidates’ statements and read the candidates’ answers to the questions posed by the Affiliate Representatives.
- Propose and select the 6 questions for candidates to answer during their video Q&A.
- See the Analysis Committee’s ratings of candidates on each candidate’s statement.
- Propose statements for the Election Compass voters can use to find which candidates best fit their principles.
- Encourage others in your community to take part in the election.
Regards,
Movement Strategy and Governance
This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee
CSinha (WMF) (चर्चा) ०९:००, २० जुलै २०२२ (UTC)
Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 7[सम्पादयतु]
Movement Strategy and Governance News
Issue 7, July-September 2022Read the full newsletter
Welcome to the 7th issue of Movement Strategy and Governance newsletter! The newsletter distributes relevant news and events about the implementation of Wikimedia's Movement Strategy recommendations, other relevant topics regarding Movement governance, as well as different projects and activities supported by the Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team of the Wikimedia Foundation.
The MSG Newsletter is delivered quarterly, while the more frequent Movement Strategy Weekly will be delivered weekly. Please remember to subscribe here if you would like to receive future issues of this newsletter.
- Movement sustainability: Wikimedia Foundation's annual sustainability report has been published. (continue reading)
- Improving user experience: recent improvements on the desktop interface for Wikimedia projects. (continue reading)
- Safety and inclusion: updates on the revision process of the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines. (continue reading)
- Equity in decisionmaking: reports from Hubs pilots conversations, recent progress from the Movement Charter Drafting Committee, and a new white paper for futures of participation in the Wikimedia movement. (continue reading)
- Stakeholders coordination: launch of a helpdesk for Affiliates and volunteer communities working on content partnership. (continue reading)
- Leadership development: updates on leadership projects by Wikimedia movement organizers in Brazil and Cape Verde. (continue reading)
- Internal knowledge management: launch of a new portal for technical documentation and community resources. (continue reading)
- Innovate in free knowledge: high-quality audiovisual resources for scientific experiments and a new toolkit to record oral transcripts. (continue reading)
- Evaluate, iterate, and adapt: results from the Equity Landscape project pilot (continue reading)
- Other news and updates: a new forum to discuss Movement Strategy implementation, upcoming Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election, a new podcast to discuss Movement Strategy, and change of personnel for the Foundation's Movement Strategy and Governance team. (continue reading)
CSinha (WMF) (चर्चा) १२:५८, २४ जुलै २०२२ (UTC)
Vote for Election Compass Statements[सम्पादयतु]
Dear community members,
Volunteers in the 2022 Board of Trustees election are invited to vote for statements to use in the Election Compass. You can vote for the statements you would like to see included in the Election Compass on Meta-wiki.
An Election Compass is a tool to help voters select the candidates that best align with their beliefs and views. The community members will propose statements for the candidates to answer using a Lickert scale (agree/neutral/disagree). The candidates’ answers to the statements will be loaded into the Election Compass tool. Voters will use the tool by entering in their answer to the statements (agree/neutral/disagree). The results will show the candidates that best align with the voter’s beliefs and views.
Here is the timeline for the Election Compass:
July 8 - 20: Volunteers propose statements for the Election CompassJuly 21 - 22: Elections Committee reviews statements for clarity and removes off-topic statements- July 23 - August 1: Volunteers vote on the statements
- August 2 - 4: Elections Committee selects the top 15 statements
- August 5 - 12: candidates align themselves with the statements
- August 15: The Election Compass opens for voters to use to help guide their voting decision
The Elections Committee will select the top 15 statements at the beginning of August
Regards,
Movement Strategy and Governance
This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee
CSinha (WMF) (चर्चा) ०७:०४, २६ जुलै २०२२ (UTC)