Happy #InternationalWomensDay!
Let's celebrate with action. We present the #ProjectRewrite Checklist: ten steps you can take to get involved and help us close the gender gap on —and beyond. #IWD2022
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Indigenous youth in Cambodia added the first photos and videos in their mother tongues to during a / event supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. As a special treat, they had a surprise visit from Angelina Jolie.
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📢 The UK Online Safety Bill:
The specific needs of platforms like ours are often ignored in new online regulation proposals. This bill is no exception. It is misguided in terms of the users it claims to protect & the platforms it 'holds accountable.'
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When people use virtual assistants or voice-activated devices, more and more of them are learning information from Wikimedia projects...
And they don’t even know it.
That's why we need a Wikimedia sound logo. Read more about the project ⬇️
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#ProjectRewrite calls out the gaps in content by and about women on — and beyond. Learn how to get involved and help close the gender gap with ten simple steps.
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#Vikipedi'ye erişim engelinin kalkması için 'nın 2019'daki AİHM başvurusu; erişim engeli kaldırıldığı, bunun hak ihlali olduğu Anayasa Mahkemesince tanındığı, gelecekteki sorunların etkili biçimde ele alınacağına inanıldığından reddedildi. Sansürsüz-engelsiz günlere!🕊️
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Decision Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. v. Turkey - blocking of Wikimedia Foundation Internet website
hudoc.echr.coe.int/app/conversion
#ECHR #CEDH #ECHRpress
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Meslektaşlarım Can Yeğinsu, Ceren Yıldız ve Noyan Utkan ile beraber Avrupa İnsan Hakları Mahkemesi nezdinde yürüttüğümüz Wikipedia davasının evvelce AYM'de erişim engelinin kaldırılmasına karar verildiği gerekçesiyle reddedilmesi, hukuksuzluğu stratejik kullanma kapısını açmakta.
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The decision is more remarkable for what the Ct has avoided deciding on an application granted priority status. It was a pleasure working with & the team at ELIG led by Helping to restore access to Wikipedia in Turkey has been a privilege
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Decision Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. v. Turkey - blocking of Wikimedia Foundation Internet website
hudoc.echr.coe.int/app/conversion
#ECHR #CEDH #ECHRpress
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Wikipedia was blocked in Turkey for almost three years. Today, the European Court of Human Rights dismissed our petition to restore access, as the block was lifted in 2020 and determined a human rights violation in another court. #ForFreeKnowledge
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We are excited to announce the ten volunteers selected to form the 2022 Core Organizing Team! The group will organize the Wikimedia movement's flagship event—which will be mainly virtual, with local events held in person where possible.
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Save the date: The next edition of will take place between 11 and 14 August 2022! It will be mainly virtual, with support for local gatherings and events where possible.
You can help us create the Wikimedia movement's flagship event👇🏽
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Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and South Africa’s #HumanRightsDay.
📷 Andrew Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Anyone who wants to contribute to Wikimedia’s technical areas can join – as code creators, maintainers, translators, designers, technical writers and other technical roles.
For more information about the #WikimediaHackathon2022, make sure you follow !
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The Hackathon will be online, and grants will be available to support local in-person meetups around the world. The deadline to apply is this Sunday, 27 March.
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The #WikimediaHackathon2022 will happen between 20 and 22 May!
The event is a space for the technical community to come together and work on technical projects, learn from each other, and make new friends.
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Congratulations to the developers behind the coolest Wikimedia tools! The ten winners include pieces of software that help you share docs with live code, detect copyright violations, and more 👇🏽
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Wikipedia articles about women are underlinked, says .
"If you start at any given article on , you're much less likely to eventually reach an article about a woman artist than you are about a male artist."
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This week marks 8 years of total service with the Foundation.
My first day at the WMF though was 10 years and 284 days ago.
As a volunteer I created my account 16 years ago and first edited about 18 years ago.
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👩🏽💻El martes y hoy compartimos con más de 60 mujeres un Taller de Introducción a rumbo a la 1º DGB.
💪🏾Entre todas decimos ¡Nunca más Wikipedia sin nosotras!
Organizamos con
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Free expression & access to reliable information are essential during times of crisis.
, , , and 30+ others are calling on to ensure people in Russia and Belarus are not cut off from the global internet.
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Write about your local folk culture and women in folk during the Feminism and Folklore writing competition on . Contest runs this March.
Check your local community participation using the project page 👉 w.wiki/4fvG
#FeminismAndFolklore #writingcompetion
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Today, the app is featured as App of the Day in the US as part of a series for #WomensHistoryMonth!
Discover favorite tips and features about the app, and meet Toni Sevener, one of our software engineers who brings the app to life.
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We, together with , , & a number of other organisations are calling on the and other govt's to carefully consider the impact of restricting the Russian public's access to the #internet:
freepressunlimited.org/en/current/let
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Its that time again! I am looking forward to speaking at the #WikiGap #Nigeria Conference tomorrow via . Help close the knowledge gap about #WomensHistory on /, more below!#WomensHistoryMonth #WHM #blackwomenintech
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Let the countdown begins!!
Registration for this year's conference in partnership with the Swedish embassy is on. We have distinguished female panelists who are ready to share their thoughts on issues that affects women. Register bit.ly/3Cpdq0o
#breakthebias
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Don’t cut off internet access in Russia or Belarus 🗣️
Further restricting the internet will only accelerate violence and repression.
Our letter with + more to : accessnow.org/US-government- #KeepItOn
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Only 18% of content in all Wikimedia projects, including biographies on , are about women. This #WomensHistoryMonth, help close this gender gap.
Take a look at the events that are planned for this month, and sign up! #ProjectRewrite
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Every time finishes a new article about a notable woman who was previously not on , it's a collective success. "We are communicating with these women from the past, who opened the doors for us, and we say 'Here you are, what you have always deserved, sis'."
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. highlighted that is a space under construction, but also a "source of information to meet, to be inspired by, to follow in the footsteps of other women."
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When talking about reaching out to young people, said: "You are inspiring them, but you are also making these topics relevant to them currently, in their situation. You are also making it a safe space, and fun, interesting."
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"I'm hopeful that someone out there who is listening to us and is hearing our different perspectives becomes inspired today by what they heard, and that they take that inspiration and they transform it into action, in whatever way is comfortable for them."—
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The Wikimedia movement celebrates "the full non-binary specter of gender," pointed out. "And we talk about gender diversity in its broadest form."
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. expressed sorrow that in Mexico and other Latin American countries, "women live permanently in a state of alert." The silver lining is that there are solutions, and Wikimedia projects play a large role in closing the gender gap: "when we go as a group, we are stronger."
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