User talk:Ad Huikeshoven

Hello. Feedback by real persons are welcome. Template and bot generated messages on this page will be removed. Ad Huikeshoven (talk) 11:53, 28 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

Hey Ad Huikeshoven,

I wanted to ask for your help. As you may be aware we have been running banners on many language wikis. We have a lot of new content this year and I really want to conduct a thorough review of our translations. This is a combination of feedback from the community, readers, donors as well as those with professional translator experience. This will help us ensure the highest quality of translations used in our messaging.

To help us out with this I wonder if you would be willing to give us feedback for Dutch using This Link

Simply follow the simple instructions on that page and if you have any questions feel free to contact me on my talk page.

Many Thanks

Jseddon (WMF) (talk) 18:32, 1 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

for correcting/moving minutes :)

Jan-bart

You're welcome. Ad Huikeshoven (talk) 09:52, 7 July 2013 (UTC)Reply

Hope to see you there! Siko (WMF) (talk) 19:09, 11 July 2013 (UTC)Reply

Hello Ad - I was scanning through the list of Teahouse/Hosts, and saw you were from the Nederlands. My most favorite place in the world is Bonaire, a small Dutch municipality that was formerly one of the five Netherlands Antilles. Have you ever been there? Moving on….I'm actually not new to Wiki having been an editor since 2011. I'm still trying to learn all the acronyms and initialisms for the many editor/admin/help pages which is actually how I stumbled onto the Teahouse. My reason for contacting you is two-fold. To begin I wanted to get your input on a subject that is inherently controversial. I've maintained a NPVO in my edits, but can't say the same for some of the other editors. In fact, this very controversial subject has taken on a life of its own, and has grown into a series of articles with links to BLPs - all controversial. I question the motives, certain parts of the editing, and the guardianship of this particular series. Secondly, while performing a rather routine edit on Anjem Choudary, I accidentally discovered a hidden symbol, and wanted to discuss it with you to see if you can figure out how it got there. I managed to capture the symbols using screen capture, and saved them as jpegs. Can I discuss this with you further via email? Thanking you in advance, Ms. Atsme (talk) 04:36, 21 February 2014 (UTC)Reply

Dear Ad, I hope you are well.

There have been many discussions recently about strategy, and we need to revisit our current movement strategy and find new ways forward. As an effort to organize efforts and help facilitate a movement-wide discussion, I'm returning to the strategy project idea.

Would you please take a look at the page and share your thoughts there? And feel free to ping others who might be interested in joining.

Thanks and regards, –SJ talk  02:05, 5 June 2014 (UTC)Reply

Hello, Ad! Thank you very much for submitting your nomination to join the Funds Dissemination Committee. I am working with the Board representatives to the FDC on the FDC nominations process. As you know, the public question and answer period is now underway. Please do review the questions and respond to them as you are able. If you are selected for an interview, kindly note that interviews will be held the week of the 23rd June and the 30th, if necessary. If the Board appoints you to the FDC, we will be holding orientation for members prior to Wikimania on August 6 and 7 in London. If you have any questions at all, don't hesitate to reach out to me on my Talk page or at FDCsupport@wikimedia.org. Once again, thank you very much for putting yourself forward as a candidate for the FDC! KLove (WMF) (talk) 00:10, 20 June 2014 (UTC)Reply

Hi Katy I'm available for interviews these weeks. Plz contact by e-mail. Ad Huikeshoven (talk) 17:33, 23 June 2014 (UTC)Reply

The Wikimedia Foundation recently created a new feature, "superprotect" status. The purpose is to prevent pages from being edited by elected administrators -- but permitting WMF staff to edit them. It has been put to use in only one case: to protect the deployment of the Media Viewer software on German Wikipedia, in defiance of a clear decision of that community to disable the feature by default, unless users decide to enable it.

If you oppose these actions, please add your name to this letter. If you know non-Wikimedians who support our vision for the free sharing of knowledge, and would like to add their names to the list, please ask them to sign an identical version of the letter on change.org.

• Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer
• Letter on change.org

I'm notifying you because you participated in one of several relevant discussions. -Pete F (talk) 21:58, 20 August 2014 (UTC)Reply

Hi Ad!

Given the short time frame before the election starts I just wanted to let you know that a question was asked of all FDC candidates on the Candidate question page. If you want to respond you can do so by editing that section and adding your response after the = sign next to your name. The question section will remain open (both for questions and responses) throughout the election and is linked from the voting interface so that voters can read it if they wish.

Thanks again for choosing to run and for your willingness to serve the community. As always please let me or any member of the committee know if you have questions throughout the process.Jalexander--WMF 06:28, 2 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

Hi Ad and thanks for your answer.

You got it right that I asked this question because it led to hot debates in the past (and I know the story behind it pretty well), and in particular growth rates were mentioned in all three appeals so far.

I would like to ask you to clarify a bit: do you think that growth rates should not be considered on its own at all, and other criteria such as effectiveness and impact should be considered instead? Thanks — NickK (talk) 14:37, 2 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

Hello Ad Huikeshoven. I deleted your local user pages on all wikis as you requested via Synchbot. Your global user page is now active on all wikis. You can see the full log on your archive page. :) —Pathoschild 17:14, 09 May 2015 (UTC)

Doesn't look like the session overlaps with Lila's one. :) --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 05:51, 15 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

Technically, the collaboration doesn't start till June 1, and the "winner" has not yet been chosen, but you're welcome to start early :)--Pharos (talk) 17:47, 26 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

Events (discuss) has been selected as the first-ever Meta Collaboration of the Month for June 2015! Join the fun there and in the discussions.--Pharos (talk) 18:29, 1 June 2015 (UTC)Reply

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Hi Ad, I just wanted to leave you a note saying "thank you" for your help translating the 2016 Strategy Consultation pages! I am so grateful for the energy you and others have put into helping the consultation reach speakers of as many languages as possible. (I've been handing out barnstars to people who helped with translation, but I notice that you prefer not to receive templates, so you get a hand-typed note instead. Please don't think that means I appreciate your help any less :) ) Kbrown (WMF) (talk) 17:51, 2 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

You're welcome. Ad Huikeshoven (talk) 18:16, 2 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

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Dear Ad,

There's currently a discussion about developing a movement strategy, and we are updating links to strategic and priority documents in other languages and projects. I'm pinging you because you indicated interest in such things last year. –SJ talk  05:57, 26 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the invitation user:sj Ad Huikeshoven (talk) 10:57, 26 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

I've recently launched an Inspire Campaign to encourage new ideas focusing on content review and curation in Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia volunteers collaboratively manage vast repositories of knowledge, and we’re looking for your ideas about how to manage that knowledge to make it more meaningful and accessible. We invite you to participate and submit ideas, so please get involved today! The campaign runs until March 28th.

All proposals are welcome - research projects, technical solutions, community organizing and outreach initiatives, or something completely new! Funding is available from the Wikimedia Foundation for projects that need financial support. Constructive feedback on ideas is welcome - your skills and experience can help bring someone else’s project to life. Join us at the Inspire Campaign to improve review and curation tasks so that we can make our content more meaningful and accessible! I JethroBT (WMF) 05:38, 29 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

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Through June, we’re organizing an Inspire Campaign to encourage and support new ideas focusing on addressing harassment toward Wikimedia contributors. The 2015 Harassment Survey has shown evidence that harassment in various forms - name calling, threats, discrimination, stalking, and impersonation, among others - is pervasive. Available methods and systems to deal with harassment are also considered to be ineffective. These behaviors are clearly harmful, and in addition, many individuals who experience or witness harassment participate less in Wikimedia projects or stop contributing entirely.

Proposals in any language are welcome during the campaign - research projects, technical solutions, community organizing and outreach initiatives, or something completely new! Funding is available from the Wikimedia Foundation for projects that need financial support. Constructive feedback on ideas is appreciated, and collaboration is encouraged - your skills and experience may help bring someone else’s project to life. Join us at the Inspire Campaign so that we can work together to develop ideas around this important and difficult issue. With thanks,

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05:02, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi Ad! I have just learned the Starfish & the Spider is a book! I have to admit I didn't understand the reference (though I tried to guess what it meant). I have the book on its way to me now. Looking forward to reading it! KLove (WMF) (talk) 21:04, 21 April 2017 (UTC)Reply

19:30, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

Hey Ad, I'd like to wish you all the best for the upcoming FDC election. It would be a pleasure and honor for me to serve with you. Warmly, --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 03:42, 29 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

Hi Ad! I see that you running as me for the FDC election. I'll be very happy to work with you on the commettee.

Hi Ad Huikeshoven,
I am reaching out to you because you signed up to receive updates about the Global Wikimedia survey.^[1]

We will be hosting a public event online to present the data, a few examples on how teams will be using it for annual planning, and what are next steps for this project. The event will take place on Tuesday, October 10, at 9:00 am PST (1600 UTC), and the presentation will be in English. You can watch the livestream here, and ask question via IRC on #wikimedia-office.

If you are unable attend, you can also find the report on meta, and watch the recording of the event at a later time.

We hope to have you join us online! -- María Cruz 23:28, 2 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

18:20, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi Ad. Thanks a lot, I didn't notice! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 21:05, 29 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

Regarding the navbox, goings-on template, orphanage, etc. - I'm the only person responsible for Meta-related stuff. I'm working on this more than 10 hours per day. Please give me more time. If you've got any ideas, please write on my talk page. Thanks! :) SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 13:09, 10 August 2019 (UTC)Reply

That's a very good idea, however, I'm not a staff member. I'm a contractor. My task is to get the job done. :) SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 13:33, 10 August 2019 (UTC)Reply

Hi! Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019 refers readers to Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/notes, but the latter is a red-link. Apparently the contents had to be removed because of privacy violations, but there was an expressed intention to replace them with an updated version later. As it has now been four weeks since the deletion (and eleven weeks since the notes were first posted), can you give us any idea when the updated version will be available? Thanks, Bovlb (talk) 03:09, 29 August 2019 (UTC)Reply

Hi @Bovlb:, I have removed the reference to a non-existing page from Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019. The ASBS process this year was probably the last ASBS process. Please do read and review the recommendations from the Roles and Responsibilities working group in the Wikimedia 2030 process, and for example their Situla model. What R&R haven't written that they are thinking about restricting the role of the WMF to keep the servers running, own the trademarks and do some legal protection. The last information might make it easier to comprehend what they are recommending. Ad Huikeshoven (talk) 11:24, 29 August 2019 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for your response. I don't feel that I understand what is going on here, but I'll stop expecting to see an updated version of the notes. Cheers, Bovlb (talk) 15:05, 29 August 2019 (UTC)Reply

Hi. The removal of that page was undertaken as a commitment had been made that an alternate page would be put in place. I don't find that the silent retraction of a commitment to be suitable. I would suggest that you look to meet your side of the commitment, otherwise the deletion discussion can be reopened, and the page reappear for that discussion. I am happy to make all correspondence public if that is preferred, or the commitment that was made can be met.  — billinghurst sDrewth 23:47, 29 August 2019 (UTC)Reply

There will be notes published. That will take time. Republishing the notes might be considered as breach of ToU. Ad Huikeshoven (talk) 21:50, 1 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

RMaung (WMF) 14:31, 9 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

Please translate VisualEditor/Newsletter/2020/August for me. I hope it will be delivered early next week. Thank you, Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 02:09, 19 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

@Whatamidoing (WMF):, the discussiontool seems not to be available here after appending ?dtenable=1 to the url. Translation done. Ad Huikeshoven (talk) 08:18, 19 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

Thanks, Ad Huikeshoven. I have installed a happy script at User:Whatamidoing (WMF)/global.js that obviates the need for the ?dtenable=1 URL. The bigger problem today is that I got a strange error a minute ago when I tried to use the @mention feature. Instead of an @ symbol, it said "<discussiontools-replywidget-mention-prefix>". Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 19:25, 19 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

@Whatamidoing (WMF) it works, but not with a page section part that begins with #. Ad Huikeshoven (talk) 13:28, 20 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

And the @ symbol pops up normally Ad Huikeshoven (talk) 13:29, 20 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

Can you give me (or @PPelberg (WMF)) a link/diff to the page section part that begins with #? Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 04:19, 26 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

User talk:Ad Huikeshoven#Please translate?dtenable=1 doesn't work, but https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ad_Huikeshoven?dtenable=1#Please_translate does. Ad Huikeshoven (talk) 15:31, 31 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hello Ad Huikeshoven,

Really sorry for the inconvenience. This is a gentle note to request that you check your email. We sent you a message titled "The Community Insights survey is coming!". If you have questions, email surveys@wikimedia.org.

You can see my explanation here.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:45, 25 September 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hi Ad Huikeshoven,

This is a reminder that if you have not yet registered for the Global Conversations on Nov. 21 and 22, please do so! Register here. Registration closes by Nov. 20. We will email you the login information for Zoom prior to the call. Thank you. Looking forward to welcoming you this weekend.

MPourzaki (WMF) (talk) 16:25, 17 November 2020 (UTC)Reply

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

Following up on the August, September, and October SWAN meetings, and June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including the recent proposed changes to the Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws, this month we are meeting on Sunday November 29, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(Note that the UTC times of 03:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC are the same as before, although a number of places have had daylight savings time changes since our last meeting).--Pharos (talk) 01:26, 27 November 2020 (UTC)Reply

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

Following up on the August, September, October, and November SWAN meetings, and June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including SWAN input on Interim Global Council and Movement Charter, this month we are meeting on Sunday January 10, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

To start the exchange of ideas on the IGC early, and to help prepare before the SWAN calls, we have set up and invite everyone to participate at this etherpad. If you like a more interactive way of discussing, we have also made a jamboard. Check here for more details.

--Pharos (talk) 14:49, 4 January 2021 (UTC)Reply

I'd just like to make sure -- are you aware of the results of the newest Community Wishlist Survey? Templates translation (a step towards the global templates) made its way to TOP1! Tar Lócesilion (talk) 16:02, 23 January 2021 (UTC)Reply

Yes, I am. Ad Huikeshoven (talk) 16:13, 23 January 2021 (UTC)Reply

Hi there! Thank you for noting your interest in the first office hour on 2021-02-02 at 12:00 UTC for the Call for Feedback: Community Board seats. Links to the office hours will be available 15 minutes before the start of the session. I look forward to seeing you there. Best, JKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:11, 1 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

Done, please ask any question you have in the future :). Matiia (talk) 22:09, 4 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

Hello, I'm going to start first by apologizing: it took me almost a year to reply to your email. I know how tiring it is to propose things and not have answers. I don't have too many excuses, I've really slowed down my participation in various projects in the last few months.

I will begin by specifying that our templates, on Wikipedia in French, for the notices and dictionaries attract various opinions. As much as there is a consensus for their use, some people think they are useless, except for adding links that will never be visited. There are also sometimes tensions with Wikidata. On Wikipedia in French, the use of Wikidata data is controlled and the possibility of using the data in the footer of articles comes from a consensus. Hence, to propose global templates linked to Wikidata, it would be necessary to know who is interested and the local possibilities for each wiki.

If I understand correctly, you would like a kind of module like Module:Graph? The latter is centralized on Wikipedia in German and several communities import the module directly. Also, I've just seen the results of the community's wishes, do you think it would be better to wait and see what this will mean for the foundation's developers?

Lofhi (talk) 13:56, 5 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

No, that is not the idea. The idea is independent of ideas such as populating infoboxes with items from Wikidata. The idea is to store (some) templates in a central place, a global repository. You can use that template on any page in the same way as a template stored on your wiki itself, if no template with the same name exists on your own wiki. Compare with the use of images, they can be stored locally or on commons. Ad Huikeshoven (talk) 11:31, 6 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

Hey Ad Huikeshoven, wil jij de Nederlandse vertaling can de CoC nog eens nakijken? Ik heb mijn best gedaan om de text zoveel mogelijk in overeenstemming the brengen met de laatste Engelse versie, met een uitzondering: "Nor will we make exceptions based on" Ik kan mezelf er niet toe brengen om dat te vertalen. Het was distinctions ipv exceptions, maar is per Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Board_ratification_change_log veranderd met als rationale: Clarifying a point of confusion around the use of the term "distinguish". Mijn voorstel is " zonder onderscheid op basis van" maar dat is niet wat de Englse text zegt. Thanks, Vexations (talk) 22:50, 7 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

Dank voor je vertaalhulp. Ik heb het bij de letterlijke vertaling 'verwachtingen' gehouden en een vraag op de overlegpagina van de beleidstekst geplaatst. Ad Huikeshoven (talk) 10:29, 8 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

Following up on the August, September, October, November, and January SWAN meetings and June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates, this month we are meeting on Sunday February 21, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

To help set priorities for the SWAN agenda, and also to help manage which global conversations should be a focus in general, we have set up and invite everyone to participate at this SWAN priorities form. Possible topics include Community Board seats, Interim Global Council, Strategy prioritization follow-up events, Branding, Universal Code of Conduct, Grant strategy, and WMF CEO search. That is a lot of things, which are most important to cover in our upcoming SWAN meeting?

Following the regular call, in SWAN after hours: Wikimedia Meet Jitsi social event with brainstorming for possible Nano Charter ideas, plus any other topics.

--Pharos (talk) 17:51, 18 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

Ahoj and hello,

I tried to praise you for: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-02-28/Opinion but then forgot about my block :), so retyping it in short on a mobile here:

Thank you for your excellent and informative heads-up, especially timely given the current UCoC  global (non)implementation debate.

Zezen (talk) 06:22, 5 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

Following up on the August, September, October, November, January, and February SWAN meetings and June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Grants relaunch, Universal Code of Conduct/Discussions, Wikimedia Enterprise / OKAPI, Community Board seats, Interim Global Council + Movement Charter, and WMF Executive Transition

This month we are meeting on Sunday March 21, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(Note that the UTC times of 03:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC are the same as before, although some places have had daylight savings time changes since our last meeting).--Pharos (talk) 19:33, 17 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

Following up on the August, September, October, November, January, February, and March SWAN meetings and June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Interim Global Council + Movement Charter, WMF Resolution about the upcoming Board elections, Community Resilience and Sustainability role in Movement Strategy coordination, Grants Strategy Relaunch, and WMF Executive Transition

This month we are meeting on Sunday April 25, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(Note that the UTC times of 03:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC are the same as before, although some places may have had daylight savings time changes since our last meeting).--Pharos (talk) 04:10, 23 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

Following up on the August, September, October, November, January, February, March, and April SWAN meetings, as well as last June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Movement Charter + Movement Strategy/Events, WMF Board elections, Wikimania 2021, and Grants Regional Committees.

This month we are meeting on Sunday June 6, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC – *Note that we have shifted the second call an hour earlier in UTC time due to popular demand and to accomodate daylight savings*.)--Pharos (talk) 20:40, 3 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

Hi Ad, as soon as I submitted my candidacy, I resigned from the committee. Best, --ProtoplasmaKid (talk) 17:31, 25 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

Following up on the August, September, October, November, January, February, March, April, and June SWAN meetings, as well as last June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Movement Charter + Drafting Committee, WMF Board elections, Wikimania 2021, and Grants Regional Committees.

This month we are meeting on Sunday July 25, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC – *Note that we have shifted the second call an hour earlier in UTC time due to popular demand and to accomodate daylight savings*.)--Pharos (talk) 14:58, 22 July 2021 (UTC)Reply

Hello! Would you be able to translate the newest update about the Community Wishlist Survey 2022? In short: instead of November 2021, the CWS will happen in January 2022. We would also like to make other improvements. We can't do that without having the volunteers' opinions. This is what we ask for in the message.

After the weekend, I'll send this to all Village Pumps, Cafes, Forums, etc. Our team would like as many people as possible not to ignore this message. Let's remove the language barrier.

Thank you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) 01:29, 4 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

I have reviewed the translations. Ad Huikeshoven (talk) 12:22, 6 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

Join the SWANniversary on September 26 as we mark the first year of the Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network!

We will have the regular All-Affiliates Strategic Meeting, to be followed by a SWANniversary Party in the after hours session, likely through spatialized chat on WorkAdventure.

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

Following up on the August, September, October, November, January, February, March, April, June, and July SWAN meetings, as well as last June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, we'll look together at strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Movement Charter + Drafting Committee, WMF Board elections, Wikimania 2021, and Grants Regional Committees.

This month we are meeting on Sunday September 26, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC.)--Pharos (talk) 18:01, 22 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

Following up on the August, September, October, November, January, February, March, April, and June, July, and September SWAN meetings, as well as last June's All-Affiliates Brand Meeting, as well as strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Movement Charter Drafting Committee Set Up Process, Next Steps for Brand Work, 2021, Wikipedia Asian Month 2021, and other ongoing activities.

This month we are meeting on Sunday October 31, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:30 UTC – *Note that we have shifted the second call a half-hour later in UTC time due to WikidataCon*.)--Pharos (talk) 01:22, 29 October 2021 (UTC)Reply

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

We'll focus on strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Hubs+Hubs Workshop, Movement Charter+Drafting Committee, WMDE's 'Future of Wikimedia Governance' proposal, Wikipedia Asian Month 2021, and other ongoing activities.

This month we are meeting on Sunday November 28, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC, note that some areas recently experienced daylight savings time changes).--Pharos (talk) 15:44, 25 November 2021 (UTC)Reply

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

We'll focus on strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Hubs+Dialogue, Movement Charter, Universal Code of Conduct+Enforcement Voting, Brand, International Women's Day+Gender Gap and WikiForHumanRights campaigns, and other ongoing activities.

This month we are meeting on Sunday February 27, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC).----Pharos (talk) 03:17, 24 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

We'll focus on strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including UCoC Voting, Hubs Global Conversation held + CEE Hub update, Movement Charter + Leadership Development Working Group, Desktop Improvements, Celebrate Women in March + International Women's Day, Wikimania 2022 survey concluded + Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 May 20-22 + local events, and other ongoing activities.

This month we are meeting on Sunday April 3, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC, note that some areas recently experienced daylight savings time changes).--Pharos (talk) 12:44, 30 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hello Ad, good to see you. I was hoping to share the below message with you and your talk page guests, as the call for applications for this working group is ending soon.

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The Community Development team at the Wikimedia Foundation is supporting the creation of a global, community-driven Leadership Development Working Group. The purpose of the working group is to advise leadership development work. Feedback was collected in February 2022 and a summary of the feedback is on Meta-wiki. The application period to join the Working Group is now open and is closing soon on April 10, 2022. Please review the information about the working group, share with community members who might be interested, and apply if you are interested.

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Thank you in advance for your consideration =) Xeno (WMF) (talk) 01:28, 8 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

We'll focus on strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including 2022 Board of Trustees Call for Candidates, Movement Charter/Content preliminary narrative, Human Rights Policy Community Conversations, Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan Feedback, IP blocking and Open Proxies discussion, Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 May 20-22 + local events, and other ongoing activities.

This month we are meeting on Sunday May 8, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC, note that some areas recently experienced daylight savings time changes).--Pharos (talk) 18:57, 4 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

We'll focus on strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Movement Charter, Hubs Global Conversation this June, WMF Proposal for Movement Strategy Forum, New rounds of WMF Conference Funds including in-person events, WMF Proposal for Sound Logo Contest, WMF Elections Analysis Committee selection, wikimania:Program submissions due June 10 (scholarship and local event grants due June 3) and other ongoing activities.

This month we are meeting on Sunday June 5, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC).--Pharos via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:19, 1 June 2022 (UTC)Reply

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

We'll focus on strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Movement Charter, Hubs Global Conversation last week, Affiliate voting period to shortlist WMF Board candidates (July 1-15), Wikimania updates, Desktop improvements, Wikimedia Enterprise first customers, Call for program submissions and updates for a global diversity of regional/linguistic Wiki-Conferences, Wikidata:Wiki Mentor Africa and other ongoing activities.

This month we are meeting on Sunday July 3, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 18:00 UTC).--Pharos via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:57, 30 June 2022 (UTC)Reply

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

We'll focus on strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Wikimedia Research Fund, 2023 Ombuds commission and Case Review Committee appointments process, feedback on consultation and community session of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee, various Wikimania topics: (ideas/suggestions for Wikimania 2023, expressions of interest for Wikimania 2024 and beyond, expressions of interest to join Wikimania Steering Committee), and other ongoing activities.

This month we are meeting on Sunday November 13, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

(UTC meeting times are 02:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC
UTC times are different from before, and also note that some areas may have recently experienced daylight savings time changes.).--Pharos via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:59, 9 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hello! Thanks for being a member of Wikimedians for Sustainable Development. We recently did a poll and understood that our newsletter was quite unknown. This is therefore a one-time invitation for all our members to sign up for our monthly newsletter. Best regards, ♥Ainali ^talk_{contributions} 21:44, 27 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas on the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for a future Global Council.

We'll focus on strategic and outreach topics of mutual concern to all affiliates including Wikimania Singapore, Future of SWAN, Movement Charter/Content new sections (particularly Movement Charter/Content/Global Council), other activities you submit, and we will top it all off with a grand finale AI Happy Hour / Doom Hour!

This month we are meeting on Sunday July 16, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

UTC meeting times are 02:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC
Note that we are now meeting on Zoom, with interpretation in the 2nd session in (Arabic) (Spanish) (French)--Pharos (talk) 02:44, 12 July 2023 (UTC)Reply

Hello everyone!

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas about current developments in the Wikimedia Movement. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for further Wikimedia 2030 strategy process work.

At this meeting we will focus on the recent statement by the WMF Board of Trustees liaisons statement on the Movement Charter in which the liaisons stated that they will be recommending the Board of Trustees not to ratify the final draft of the Movement Charter. The community and affiliate votes on the ratification are supposed to start on Tuesday, 25 June. This meeting offers a venue to discuss the situation and formulate the "next steps".

This month, we are meeting on Sunday, June 23, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC

Nadzik (talk) 16:35, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Dear Wikimedian,

You are receiving this message because you previously voted in the 2021 Movement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC) election.

This is a reminder that if you have not voted yet on the ratification of the final Wikimedia Movement Charter draft, please do so by July 9, 2024 at 23:59 UTC.

You can read the final text of the Wikimedia Movement Charter in your language. Following that, check on whether you are eligible to vote. If you are eligible, cast your vote on SecurePoll.

On behalf of the Charter Electoral Commission,

RamzyM (WMF) 15:23, 5 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hello everyone!

The Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) is a developing forum for all Wikimedia movement affiliates to share ideas about current developments in the Wikimedia Movement. It expands on the model of the All-Affiliates Brand Meeting to help lay some of the groundwork for further Wikimedia 2030 strategy process work.

At this meeting we will focus on the results of the Movement Charter ratification. We will also discuss the aftermath of the Board of Trustees' decision to veto the Movement Charter, including their recent proposals. We will also cover updates about upcoming Wikimania 2024.

This month, we are meeting on Sunday, July 28, and you are all invited to RSVP here.

UTC meeting times are 03:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC

Nadzik (talk) 19:55, 18 July 2024 (UTC)Reply