User talk:NoonIcarus
WikiSP Newsletter #1 (2021-06)[edit]
WikiSP Newsletter of June 2021
Members
News on complementary policies or changes to the Foundational Text
- To fulfill with the standards of the Affiliations Committee was modified the name of the group to Wikimedia Small Projects in Spanish. Was created a communiqué reflecting the change and the fact that the support to other linguistic communities will not be modified.
Tech news
- We have a mailing list, you can suscribe here.
Ongoing discussions
- Was proposed a change for the Linguistic Commission because of the peak in members. You can comment in Taberna (if you are Spanish speaker), Pub (if you are English speaker) or Lounge (if you are German speaker).
Miscellaneous
- On April 22 was approved SmallProjects, a research project that will allow us to fully understand the fate of small projects and the reasons why affiliates do not take them into account. It is the pilot of an ambitious project that will focus all projects in any language.
- We have reached twenty members! We hope to keep moving forward to reach the goal.
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02:40, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
WikiSP Newsletter #2 (2021-06)[edit]
WikiSP Newsletter of July 2021.
Members
News on complementary policies or changes to the Foundational Text
- Following the recommendations of the Council, the Linguistic Commission has been dissolved. It has been replaced by the Central Commission of Languages and the Project Hubs
Tech news
- We have performed maintenance on the Delta server.
- The bouncer is a service that allows a 24/7 connection to IRC so you don't miss anything. Following the migration of freenode to libera.chat, this group now offers this service. You can read about it here.
Miscellaneous
- In order for the project hubs to function properly, we require that members of the community of each project that this project focuses on be able to join the hubs. Specifically, we are looking for members of the communities of: enwikivoyage, dewikivoyage and all projects in Spanish.
- Remember you can subscribe to mailing list and find out about the latest news from the group (it will be added as a button at the bottom of this newsletter), you can also connect with us on #wikimedia-sp or subscribe to the Telegram version of this newsletter.
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16:10, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
WikiSP Newsletter #3 (2021-08)[edit]
WikiSP Newsletter of August 2021.
Ongoing discussions
- A discussion on changes to the membership policy is underway,
- A discussion on increasing temporary seats on the Administrative Commission is underway.
Miscellaneous
- We have reached 25 members!
- Members to the Regional Committees were recently selected. Congratulations to Alexandrabello for joining the LATAM and The Caribbean Committee.
- SmallProjects starts on August 16. A synthesized version of how the project will work can be found here.
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20:49, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
WikiSP Newsletter #04[edit]
WikiSP Newsletter of October 2021.
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News on complementary policies or changes to the Foundational Text
- The electoral policy was approved; this allows the members of the group to decide the members of the different components or to choose the General Coordinator.
Ongoing discussions
- A vote to approve the Code of Conduct is in progress.
- The Administrative Commission is the most important component of the group as the substantive decisions emanate from there. Elections for the Administrative Commission have begun. The election commissioners will send a message to all those eligible to register as candidates and/or electors.
Miscellaneous
- After two years, we have finally been recognized! An announcement has been made, which is also summarized in this Spanish Wikinews article.
- Episodes one and two of SuenaWiki Reloaded, a space that allows to talk about the projects of the Wikimedia movement and free knowledge globally, can be listened to through Wikimedia Commons.
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WikiSP: Admincom Elections (2021)[edit]
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Admincom Elections 2021
Dear Wikimedia Small Projects member, you have been cordially invited to participate in the elections for one of the three seats on the Administrative Committee. As you know, the Administrative Committee is one of the three most important components of the group and is where the substantive decisions affecting the group are made. You can register as a candidate through this link.
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03:07, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
WikiSP Newsletter #05 (2021-11)[edit]
WikiSP Newsletter of November 2021.
News on complementary policies or changes to the Foundational Text
- Six days left to sanction the Code of Conduct. If you are an active member, you can go and exercise your vote.
Tech news
- We have implemented three new instances: Limesurvey, Moodle and MediaWiki. The first will be for conducting surveys to be sent to volunteers, the second for a future educational program and the third for testing on MediaWiki.
- As you know, this group offers permanent connection to Libera.Chat through its bouncer service. Now the requests are processed via Phabricator to make it easier for volunteers to access this service.
Miscellaneous
- On October 29, we requested a general support fund so that our mission can continue uninterrupted. We hope that the Latin America and Caribbean Committee will look favorably on our proposal to support small projects.
- We need your feedback: Help us to focus our efforts to support small projects in the coming year. We want you to tell us what we can support and in what ways we should support them. The survey will run for thirty days, until December 03. The survey link is here.
- The results of the Admincom's temporary seats will be announced on November 8.
- From November 09 to 10 we will have a edit-a-thon at Wikiviajes. There we will edit as many destinations as possible.
- On November 16th we will have the Allie Awards; a virtual award in which we recognize the excellence, initiative and activism of volunteers in the Wikimedia movement. You as a volunteer can nominate who you consider deserving of such an award. You only have to ping Galahad with the name and the reason why he/she deserves to be recognized. You have the opportunity to nominate until November 8.
- On November 17th we will be supporting the friends of WikiAcción Perú and the Cámara de Comercio de San Martín in the Wikiviajes workshop on the region of San Martín. If you want to participate, you can write us through hello<at>wikisp.org.
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00:48, 4 November 2021 (UTC)