Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin/2024/06-01
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Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation over the first half of June 2024. Please help Translate.
Upcoming and current community conversations Talking: 2024 continues
- Open AffCom Office Hours on Affiliates Strategy Implementation (June 19 at 14:00 UTC)
- Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle: Call for feedback (through June 23)
Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Langauge and Internationalization · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org
- Improvements for editors with extended rights - Edit Check, PageTriage, Edit Patrol on Android, Release Rights improvements in Upload Wizard, and the Watchlist on iOS.
- Responding to other community needs with Edit Recovery, QR share, Multiblocks schema changes, AutoSuggestSiteLink and bringing back The Who Wrote That Extension.
- Voting on Community Wishlist Survey renaming (through June 20)
- Scholarship Applications for the Wikimedia Technology Summit (WTS-2024) are open (through July 10)
- Wikimedia Enterprise updates: Realtime Streaming Updates: Parallel Connections and Restart Support (June 14)
- AI for the people: How machines can help humans improve Wikipedia
- Designing the typography of Wikipedia
- Latest Tech News
Annual Goals Progress on Equity
See also a list of all movement events: on Meta
- Upcoming Wikimania (7–10 August, Katowice, Poland): the Program will be soon announced!
- Africa Growth Pilot: feedback is invited for Module 2: 101 Ways to Contribute to Wikimedia
- Let's Connect: about the new Event Registration Tool and a Women's Health in Wikimedia Projects
- WikiLearn: Check out some of our newest courses such as Open Refine for Wikimedia Commons
- WikiCelebrate: Celebrated the work of B20180, a prolific administrator of Thai Wikimedia projects and a content contributor in Thai and beyond!
- Community conferences: submission deadline for Round 1 applications: September 2.
Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Inclusion
See also blogs: Global Advocacy Blogs · blogs
- Final draft of the Movement Charter published on June 10. Movement Charter Launch Party on June 20. Ratification: June 25–July 9
- Evaluation of the U4C election results (ongoing)
- "Don’t Blink": Protecting the Wikimedia model, its people, and its values in April 2024 (June 4)
Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: quarterly Metrics Reports
- Feedback welcome on community collaboration page for annual banner fundraising campaign on English Wikipedia in India for non-logged in readers (planned for Aug 13 to Sep 10)
- Banner fundraising campaigns started in Japan, Spain (also on Catalan Wikipedia), Greece, Malaysia, Portugal, South Africa, and Sweden (through June 25)
- Progress on the plan: How the Wikimedia Foundation has advanced on its 2023-2024 Annual Plan goals – Part 3 (June 12)
Wikimedia Endowment updates
- The Wikimedia Endowment 2022–2023 annual report published
- First grantees – Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions, Kiwix, the Wikimedia machine learning project and Wikidata
Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter