Hi Connie,
My apologies for the delayed reply.
I may not be the best person for this particular topic (as I only contributed to the English Wikipedia). Perhaps Sivakosaran from the Tamil Wikipedia (copied in this email) would be interested to participate?
I'm also copying our usergroup's mailing list, in case anyone else would like to take part in this panel.
Thanks and regards,
User:Rehman<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rehman>
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From: connie moon sehat <connie(a)globalvoices.org>
Sent: 17 October 2017 17:09
To: Rehman Abubakr; Azeez Abubakr
Cc: Eddie Avila
Subject: Re: Wikipedia and Credible information
Thanks Eddie! and Hi Rehman and Azeez,
You can see a description of the panel that is developing below — this topic came up as Marie Bohner (GV France/CrossCheck France) and I were thinking about the challenges of discussing “credible” information across languages and borders. This led us to think about the maybe underlying assumption that people can understand a fact easily from one culture to the next. Based on your Wikipedia experience, I was thinking this might be something that you have some thoughts about, especially coming from the multilingual, post-conflict Sri Lankan context.
https://globalvoicessummit2017.sched.com/event/CeXP/is-credibility-cross-cu…
If your experiences and thoughts fit well with this discussion, and you feel comfortable participating in an english-only panel, we’d love to have you join. So if this is of interest, please email me with your thoughts and examples.
In any case, I am glad to know that you will be involved with the Summit, and look forward to meeting you there!
Best regards,
Connie
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Director, NewsFrames
Global Voices
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On Oct 16, 2017, at 5:58 PM, Eddie Avila <eddie(a)globalvoices.org<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Rehman and Azeez -
Great to see the Sri Lankan Wikimedia community getting involved with our Summit. Glad to see it coming together.
I would like to introduce you to my colleague, Connie Moon Sehat, the Director of our NewsFrames project<https://newsframes.globalvoices.org/> She is interested in receiving some input about the challenge of discussing “credible” information across borders for a possible session at the conference. Since this is something that Wikipedia deals with, perhaps you as Wikipedians might have some thoughts on it from your own experiences.
I will let her explain a little more what she had in mind.
Thanks,
Eddie
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Director, Rising Voices
Global Voices
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Hello!
tl;dr: The strategic direction is final now. All groups and individuals are invited to endorse it on October 26. Please set-up a process in your group to come to a decision about your endorsement.
Thanks and regards,
User:Rehman<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rehman>
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From: Nicole Ebber <nicole.ebber(a)wikimedia.de>
Sent: 05 October 2017 23:55
To: rehman.wikimedia(a)live.com; azeez.abubakr(a)live.com
Subject: [Movement Strategy] Direction is final; endorsement on October 26
tl;dr: The strategic direction is final now. All groups and individuals are invited to endorse it on October 26. Please set-up a process in your group to come to a decision about your endorsement.
Dear Rehman and Azeez,
Here’s my regular update to organizations and groups in the Wikimedia movement, and I’d like to ask you for your attention:
We have finalized the strategic direction and I invite you to take a look at it.[1] This direction is attempting to capture and synthesize the aspirations and opinions from hundreds of offline and online conversations that we had in the last seven months with the different audience groups like individual contributors, organized groups and new voices. This direction is not a plan or a project, but a direction for us as a movement to move forward to together.
But we are not fully there yet: Before we conclude phase 1 of the strategy process, we are asking all groups and individuals for their endorsement of the strategic direction. Here are the facts:
== When ==
October 26, 2017 (this is the date we are currently aiming for); we aim to create a joyous moment for all of us, a day to celebrate the future ahead together. Come together, invite your members or communities to join, sign the page and follow how your fellow Wikimedians around the world celebrate #wikimedia2030. And although we would like to use this day to create a sense of community spirit around the direction, there will be a way to endorse the direction after the 26.
== Who ==
All organizations, groups, committees, and individuals in our movement are invited to endorse.
== Why ==
To show support and commitment to the direction; to commit to participating in the next phase of the movement strategy process in good faith.
== How ==
By signing a meta page with your Wikimedia username, indicating that you sign it in the name of your organization or group. In practice, we will ask people to endorse the strategic direction (in the green box) and the section “what comes next”[1]. We will build that page in the coming days and I will send out the link in a coming update.
== What to do now ==
Prepare your affiliate or group to endorse the direction on October 26. You might want set up a decision making process, hold a meeting, schedule a resolution or whatever works best for you.
It would also be helpful for us if you can help spreading this information across your communities, help with translations and direct questions to me or to the talk page of the direction.
== What’s next ==
>From November on, constituents of the movement will negotiate towards an agreement on roles, responsibilities and organizational strategies that enable us to implement our shared future. As a signatory, they will pledge to consider the needs of our movement above their own, and to find the structures, processes, and resources that enable our movement to best move towards our common direction.
I will send further updates when we are getting closer to the endorsement day. Let me know if you have further questions or concerns.
Thanks,
Nicole
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Direction#…
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Adviser International Relations
Movement Strategy Track Lead: Organized Groups
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