Talk:QW2022

Thanks! Bluerasberry (talk) 16:46, 7 February 2022 (UTC) Reply

There is QW2022/call for project management

I advertised this on wiki at

• en:special:permalink/1088927115#Wanted:_event_manager_for_Queering_Wikipedia_2022
• es:special:permalink/143672204#Wanted:_event_manager_for_Queering_Wikipedia_2022

I talked with external vendor

• https://www.bk-avirtual.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N43pHim0X1I

and have contacted

• https://meetings.copernicus.org/

and some individual consultancies that I will not name yet. If anyone has referrals then please share. Bluerasberry (talk) 18:53, 21 May 2022 (UTC) Reply

More

• https://twitter.com/wikilgbt/status/1529455754314493955

Bluerasberry (talk) 15:50, 25 May 2022 (UTC) Reply

The organization Education@Internet (in which I am working and volunteering) have candidated for the position of project management and providing the conference platform for WQ 2022. E@I has a more than a decade long experience of organising in-person conferences, seminars and meetings, and since 2020 also experience of organizing virtual conferences of its own and for other organisations (most notably Virtual Congress of Esperanto in 2020 for the World Esperanto Assotiation with cca 1 800 registered participants, and also smaller meetings for e.g. World Esperanto Youth Organisation and International League of Esperantists Teachers with hundreds of participants). That inlcudes the general organisation, event and project management, program compilation, marketing, bookkeeping, managing volunteers etc. E@I has developed its own online platform for such conferences - Retevent - and can provide it for QW 2022.

Members of the team also have a wikimedia community experience, notably organising the Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2013 together by E@I and WMSVK (in which I was responsible for organising) and organizing WMSVK's Slovakian WikiConference 2015 and 2017 (both of them organized by me).

E@I has a long tradition of supporting Wikimedia movement. E.g. both of the books in language Esperanto about Wikipedia are published by E@I, E@I have organised the first succesful article-editing competition in the Esperanto Wikipedia and for years is providing office, post address and mentoring for Wikimedia User Groups Wikimedians of Slovakia and Esperanto and Free Knowledge. I, as a long time active wikimedia community organiser (many article-editing competitions, founding and leading organisation, engagement, IT for WM organisation etc), am personally involved in E@I and its candidacy for project management role for QW. --KuboF Hromoslav (talk) 16:10, 13 June 2022 (UTC) Reply

is there a date for the conference? Or any indication of what month it will be in? thanks --MassiveEartha (talk) 17:58, 15 June 2022 (UTC) Reply

@MassiveEartha: October. Bluerasberry (talk) 01:04, 16 June 2022 (UTC) Reply

Choosing an online platform for Wikimedia events is challenging because of our community's accessibility needs.

See this recent post about Wikimania's platform https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/07/20/the-platform-powering-wikimania-2022/ Bluerasberry (talk) 14:21, 27 July 2022 (UTC) Reply

Queering Wikipedia 2022 is postponed. The new target is early 2023.

We continue to seek applicants for project management.

• QW2022/call for project management

Two roles and likely two different managers:

• set up all technical aspects of this online conference, including website and video streaming
• Wikimedia community management, including support for the volunteer communities for program, communications, moderation, and administration

The Wikimedia community is good at presenting Wikipedia. Our community of volunteers is not good at event administration, which is why we have paid roles. Apply through the link above. Thanks. Bluerasberry (talk) 16:20, 28 July 2022 (UTC) Reply

Where can we read about the reasons for the postponement? Peltarion (talk) 02:28, 1 August 2022 (UTC) Reply

Our appeal for project management was poorly focussed, meaning that the bids we had were more directed at the technical aspects than the project management and event management aspects. As we were getting increasingly close to the proposed date of the conference and our internal volunteer capacity is low, we discussed with our partner in the Grants team and agreed to postpone the external-facing parts of the conference, so that we can ensure it gets organised properly. — OwenBlacker (Talk) 07:22, 3 August 2022 (UTC) Reply

Where can we read more about Fae creating one exceedingly obvious sock after another in the name of avoiding harassment? Beeblebrox (talk) 16:19, 1 August 2022 (UTC) Reply

Your continued harassment of Fæ on and off wiki is a frustrating timesink. I'm not going to write about their involvement without their consent, but I will remind you that the user group is a Foundation Affiliate in good standing and that neither AffCom nor the Grants team, nor Community Resilience & Sustainability (Trust & Safety) nor the User Group's governance team share the concerns you and others keep raising on Wikipediocracy. Perhaps we could all maybe try to focus on improving encyclopædic content rather than what appear, from outside at least, to be years-long personal vendettas? — OwenBlacker (Talk) 07:40, 3 August 2022 (UTC) Reply

PS: Incidentally, when I get up to go to the toilet at 4am and notice harassment that I revert, I tend to go back to bed, rather than answering other questions I hadn't previously seen.

Whilst I agree that Beeblebrox's comment above serves no obvious purpose apart from harassment, I think that the more sensible people here should think about how the involvement of more than one person who has been banned or long-term blocked from their home Wikis reflects on this and other LGBTQ+ projects within Wikimedia. Some of us have avoided getting involved in the past because of the presence of certain individuals. Openly disassociating yourselves from certain types might make it easier to recruit those queer Wikipedians that want to avoid them. 82.45.168.246 16:24, 3 August 2022 (UTC) Reply

I'm with the other anon. Wikimedia LGBT is basically synonymous with Fae - who seems to be on every committee, attend every meeting, and run every communications channel the UG has. There are plenty of queer Wikimedians, myself included, who've suffered from Fae's harassment, bullying and hounding in the past and are never going to feel safe in a space run by Fae. But there seems to be no way to raise this issue safely with the UG when you have a bunch of "safe space" policies written by one of the biggest harassers in the movement that direct you to committees on which they also sit. The sooner the User Group stops digging this hole the better tbh, and the only way to get out of it is to make it clear that Fae doesn't occupy any positions of authority in the group. 2A02:C7F:BD0C:F700:910E:250:98D9:C305 16:57, 3 August 2022 (UTC) Reply

• Yeah, this is just absurd. Owen has acknowledged right here that he knows as well as all the rest of us that these accounts are all Fae. So, what's the point? Fae is a poison on this user group. Fae quit every other aspect of involvement with this movement. They don't contribute anything anymore except to pop up with a new sock every few months to make edits about this user group. The socks aren't for protection, they are for maintaining the premise that Fae is "on strike" while continuing their years-long quest to squeeze some cash out of their involvement with the Wikimedia movement. Fae is using you all for their own agenda, and it's sad and alarming that some of you can't seem to see it. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:58, 3 August 2022 (UTC) Reply