 Hi. Welcome to the session on the Wiki for Human Rights 2022 campaign. I'm Alex Stenson. I'm hiding behind the slides. I'm a lead program strategist at the Wikimedia Foundation. And we're going to be talking about how we've been using the Wiki for Human Rights campaign to experiment on the movement strategy topics for impact organizing focus. Most of the presentation is going to be from this year's partner in crime, Ruby Dementia Brown, who was our senior organizing fellow as part of this year's campaign. And she did a really wonderful job being the heart and soul of the community organizing for this campaign and really making it work. So I'm so proud to have her presenting here today. This is the rough outline of what we're going to talk about. We're going to talk about what we learned and that's Ruby is going to focus on. And then we have some voices from different communities that participate in the campaign and we want to give them space to kind of reflect on their experience. And then I'm going to give some updates on what we'll be doing for topics for impact organizing and other training activities throughout the year. So without me talking too much, I want to hand you over to Ruby, who's, like I said, done a wonderful round of work this year to make it happen. Okay, thank you so much, Alex. As Alex said, my name is Ruby Dementia Brown. I'm from Ghana and I was the fellow for the Wiki for Human Rights campaign this year. And I must say that it's been a wonderful experience. I'm here to talk to you about what the campaign is about, what we achieve, and then my personal experience. Then we have other panels to share their experience as well. So what is the Wiki for Human Rights campaign all about? I think we can move to the US area. What is the Wiki for Human Rights campaign all about? So what we aim to achieve with this campaign is to be able to document stories and content to make sure that everyone everywhere has access to neutral fact-based current information about our right to a healthy environment, especially in this day and age where environmental issues have gained that much significant attention. And this campaign was, as a result of a partnership between the Wikimedia Foundation and the United Nations Human Rights Council. We also had support from UNICEF and then the UN Environmental Program. So what were some of the topics that we focused on this year? So the topics that was our focus this year was the triple monetary crisis. And in that we're talking about climate change, we're talking about pollution, we're talking about biodiversity loss. And these were some of the stories and things that we wanted people to document and then write articles about. And also advocate because it's not only about writing articles, but to create that kind of awareness, bring people's attention to these kind of topics, especially in our movement where we're talking about a topic of impact. So what exactly did we attain in this year's campaign? What were the results? It's intriguing that we saw that increased participation this year, especially from the global south. We had communities embrace this campaign and did wonderful activities. We're so excited and we're so proud of everyone who participated and supported the campaign. We had more than 700 participants participating one way or the other from different continents. And we are talking about across five continents in the world, which is so amazing. And when we talk about countries, we had more than 5,000, 4,000 articles being created. There was so much articles that were created, we just had to, we didn't even know how to calculate it. We can say that we had more than 4,000 articles this year around the topics. And then we also saw more than 40 community events. And these events you run from webinars, editor tons, workshops, photo walks, dramas. And it's exciting to see people come together to talk about environment, to document stories about our environment. And we're so proud of our local and regional organizers who also supported us, took the message to the grassroots. Because we wanted to get to the grassroots level and so we worked with local regional organizers, volunteers, to help us take the message to the people and the grassroots. Next slide. So what exactly did I learn? And this is what I'm going to share with you. I learned so much, this campaign was really, really enlightening. Next slide please. This new campaign was really, really enlightening for me personally. I learned so much, I gained a lot of skills, it increased my connection. But I want to share a story that really intrigued me about what I learned from this campaign. So when I got the role as a fellow for the Wiki for Human Rights, it then dawned on me like, oh my God, I'm not even an expert in the environment, how am I going to do with this? But this opportunity being a fellow and handling or coordinating this campaign has helped me understand that you don't have to be an expert in an environmental topic to be able to participate in this campaign. You don't have to be. It's about how you connect it to your story, how you connect it to your field of interest. Because whether or not we like it, our environment is where we live. And if our environment is not thriving well, it affects whatever that you're doing, irrespective of what your interest is, it's going to affect you. So how do you connect that story to how do you connect the environmental topic to your own story or to your personal interest? And I personally, I was interested more in women, women empowerment and all that. So I've many been organizing campaigns in different areas and especially I love to work on women topics and all that. But when I came to be a fellow at the Wikimedia Foundation, organizing the Wiki for Human Rights, I began to read stories. Honestly, I've not really paid much attention to the environmental field, but when I began to read stories, I realized how connected our environment is to women. And so I began to connect the story. For instance, if you come to our part of the world, whenever there's drought and there's no water, women suffer a lot. And that's where I began to see the reality of the thing, when I began to connect the environment, where I am, and the things that happen around women. Women suffer a lot because women are seen as people who take care of women, people who need to get food. And so if there's no water, who has to get the water? Of course, you and the women have to get the water. And so you see women travel far just so that they get water. And then for the activity time is lost, it impacts their health. Because these are the issues that we're talking about. And there are a lot more stories that we can explore. So like I said, it's about how you connect the environmental story to your own story. And that's how you begin to appreciate the gap that we are talking about. Because there are a lot of gaps. You might think that, oh, this is for environmentalists, or this is for an expectant, some kind of abstract things that you don't understand. No, just connect it to your story and then you're good to go. And then I also realized that this has a great potential to draw the youth, especially bringing that kind of sustainability and partnership into the movement. We are in a day and age where environment has become, I mean, our environment is in crisis. Everyone is talking about it. Everyone is trying to find solutions to solve our environmental issue. And the youth are embracing these topics so much. And so this is a very great opportunity to sort of connect to partners, connect to the youth, to bring them in, to help them understand that this is also a space where they can also try to bridge their knowledge gap. Because these are youth who are interested in environmental issues already. They are interested in sustainability issues already. So how do they direct that passion into Wikipedia projects? How do they direct that passion in bridging the knowledge gap? And this is what we are talking about. And one of such partnerships that I personally witness in my country, Ghana, is when local organizers have this wiki green conference where they've brought a lot of people in the tech space, a lot of organizations like Internet Governance, Internet Society, Debbie Foundation and so on and so forth, a whole lot of organizations. And that has attracted a lot of youth to attend this conference. And you'd be amazed. This was the first time they even actually learned that they could contribute to Wikipedia. And you might think that people already know about Wikipedia and so they know that they're supposed to contribute. No, not everyone know that. So this was a very great opportunity bringing people who already have that passion and trying to help them appreciate that they can direct some of that passion into bridging this knowledge gap because knowledge is power. If you're able to empower these youth to document in local language to help many more people to even understand what we are talking about. And also another partnership that helped us to build capacity and build skills was the Climate Change Editor Tone which we organized with Open Foundation in West Africa and Youth Climate Council Ghana. And we organized this training to build the capacity of the youth who are already interested in sustainability. And we saw a lot of youth close to 100 people who were trained both virtually and in person. And it was really amazing. So these are some of the issues that we're talking about. And I believe that if people have access to this kind of knowledge, they will be able to, it will also be able to improve other people's habits or life because for me, when I read about environmental topics when I read about stories around the environment, it helped me to now understand it. So now if I'm doing something, I'm conscious about what I'm doing so that I can be able to protect my environment. And it's all because I had access to this knowledge. And this is what we are talking about. It helps to improve people's habits. And it also helps people to advocate their right because if you know your right, you'll be able to advocate your right. This is just a brief story that I wanted to share with you all that you don't have to be an expert. Just come in, have an open mind, connect it to your story, see what you can do in the moment. And so we're going to play a video that we put together. It's just a summary of what happened in the community. Like a quick video. I don't know if Alex, you can go ahead to play a video. We have some videos that we want to showcase to everyone. Okay, so while we're moving forward, I'm hoping for Alex to share his life. So what will we be doing? So what we intend to do in from now onwards is to... Okay, let's just go ahead. Can you hear me now? Yeah, we can hear you. So the video isn't working. We'll share it in the slides already and we'll share it later. Sorry. So Alex, do we just move to the next slide? Yeah. Okay. So what we keep doing, what we want to keep doing is to be able to connect more youth to the movement through Sustainability Campaign. And we're saying Sustainability Campaign because the youth have embraced sustainability topics, issues around sustainability. And it's a very great way to bring in the youth to sort of bring, like, have a space for them to be able to do what they love best in that kind of field. We also want to continue to support communities as they need to work with more strategic partnership. And partnership is very significant because one of the great ways to reach new audiences to get specific audiences is through partnership. And partnership has proven to be a very great way of doing that. So bringing in strategic partnership is very important. Even just like this campaign, this is a strategic partnership with the UN human right and the UN environmental program supporting and all that. So it's not like a very great way. Like we did for the Youth Climate Council, look at your local communities, see what kind of partnerships that can bring strategic, see which kind of partnership can sort of bring this kind of youth into your space, into your community. We document these kind of stories. And we also want to be connecting deeper, thematic training with a campaign to help organisers participate effectively. And I'd like to be talking more about that, how you want to train campaign organisers and all of that. So we also want to provide regional support for the campaign. Yes, regional support is very important because this is a global campaign. It's a campaign that we deal with different continent, different regions. And each region is different in the way that they respond to some of these topics. And so we want to be able to support regionality in terms of this campaign. So I think I'll hand it over to Alex to sort of talk more. So I wanted to invite some of our regional organisers who are on the call. Did Romeo make it into the call? No, I'm not busy. I pay them but I think it's offline. Okay, so we'll start with Michelle then to talk a little bit about their experience in the Minna region and the Arabic community. Hello, everyone. My name is Michelle Baknin. I was organising the year's campaign in the Arabic communities. This year we had really a great campaign because we tried to organise the campaign in using different approach. Normally in the Arabic home world we have like 25 countries. So before we used to organise different contests and people, efforts and participants were divided in different places. So this year we tried to organise a unified contest and thanks to the efforts spent by the organisers we were able to achieve a great success and this is the first time in the Arabic community we arrived to do a unified contest for one of the Wikimedia campaigns. We are happy to do that. In addition to that the contest was divided into two parts. We have editing campaigns, which is a normal campaign where people go to the articles and try to add contests to these articles and we had also an image contest where people can go to the street, can go to their own local area to take photos and upload these photos to comments and then they have to put the photos in the articles, the corresponding articles as well as Wikidata items. From our perspective last year, this year campaign was really a success and we are looking forward to repeat the same approach with enhancement because we had a huge feedback from participants and we are looking forward to include these feedbacks into the model we are developing and I think next year we are going to come back again with another enhanced version of the Arabic Unified Contest in the region. Thank you a lot for giving us this opportunity and for giving us the support to continue organizing this contest. Thank you so much, Michelle. It was really neat because Michelle was a campaign organizing fellow the year before and so it helped me design the first iteration of the Right to Healthy Environment campaign and he was able to bring that learning back to the Arabic community and spend more time actually building that practice and context and so this is a really important part of how we are designing this campaign is local skill out to regional skill, out to local skill, international skill out to regional and local skill. I want to invite, I probably am not pronouncing this right, I'm German and solo, was that close? Hi, okay, so my name is Gemi Sola and Shosh from Nigeria and I co-organized with, particularly with Ufemia Wandu and James Fokola that I'm speaking today. So for the campaign this year what happened was that we had more, We had we organized in more states Unlike the last one because we discovered that Well from last year we had much more. There was so much interest from last year So we took the campaign to three other locations and what we did was that would split The campaign into different sections if you come to Nigeria before you will know that you have the northern Nigeria You have a thousand you have the western Nigeria. So what we did this year was that they had they organized in all these locations From the north central in Norway that we organize in the case or where we then we organize in Lagos I'm just going to speak more on the Lagos Lagos location this year. We were able to partner with We had the Information office of the UN come speak to us Apart from the normal edict at all that we do that we did so we invited have to talk about you know the environment knowing about you know the new The Lord that when we learned that when we leave about the environment and you know Our right, you know the right for the environment and she spoke about it For an extent then we had them the audience Participants in her act with her and I discovered that this campaign was was fluid was not set in stone in the sense that It wasn't an all you know for all the different Locations that we organize We were not doing the same thing at the same time because we discovered that we couldn't do wasn't a one on one side Before or you know for this location and we discovered that just as Ruby I said earlier There was you know the youth was vested in in this campaign We're so interested and there was something very surprising about you know this particular event There's a particular young man that came in and you know his twist, you know it approached to The environment or talking about the right, you know the human rights and the right to health environment is that he He was a was an artist so he had written songs and he had written poetry Actually was a bit famous although I didn't really know him But those some people have happened to know him and I just thought about it Okay, this could be a little way that you know next year for her It could use that to campaign, you know, you have songs go out and everybody knows that Most young people like stone. So that's another twist to it. So we're now looking at it. Okay That could be something I'll show up next. Yeah, then also discovered that the participants were We're so vested in it and they took some of them. We're ready I mean they were they were so interested that we're ready to you know, we have to practically, you know We have to pass that end the session for the agreed time they also have a partnership with the American corner we hosted the Lagos event in American corner and We're looking at how we call, you know, develop more collaborations and partnerships, you know For this for the next campaign And we know to get it moving forward. Thank you Thank you so much. It's really wonderful and for the next A portion by Gabrielle. He's going to speak in Spanish. So if you're listening with the translation make sure you switch to the English channel so Gabrielle That's the Mientras nuevas para poder sentir que podía colaborar en el conocimiento de Mucha bibliographia que está sólo en inglés o en otros idiomas técnicos y poderlo hacerlo más disponible para las personas En lenguaje español y quiero agradecer todas las oportunidades que organiza tanto Wikipedia Argentina como Wikipedia Uruguay acercándonos talleres y oportunidades de Acompañarnos a aprender a usar las herramientas darnos Capacitaciones de demostración Nos ayuda a We want to apologize so much for the interruption the delay from the work meeting of the year Interrupted the recording and unfortunately Gabriel had to drop off because of that moment We will make sure that his experience is captured and the wiki for human rights and my comedians first sustainable development Telegram channels and I I'm so sorry for that It's really important that we have these regional communities that Are involved in the campaign and especially as Gabriel was saying both the The there are some systematic gaps in languages like Spanish that are best addressed by Platforms like Wikipedia We've seen this with the Arabic and French and other communities that have participated in non-english languages as well That the clang at environmental topics really do need coverage in these other spaces so because we're presenting and Sharing the campaign And we'll make sure this video is circulated. We just wanted to share out what exactly is coming up for the next part of this topics for impact focus on sustainability and We'll share just briefly that and how that is working So we are going to be running an experimental training for organizers of campaigns in the the Which media movement are in response to the topics for impact recommendation what we've learned from the wiki for human rights campaign is that These thematic topic called actions are really impactful for the wiki media movement as Ruby and All of our local organizers have said it brings in new and different communities into the movement And it's really important that we kind of create space for that We are going to be launching an experimental course this year or 30 plus organizers who are experienced Running campaign activities in the movement where we will be talking through how to design a campaign from scratch The goal is not only to have more prepared organizers for the wiki for human rights Earth Day campaign window around the topic of suspending sustainability and climate but also to give you skills and insight Required to apply that structure to other topics and so we're really excited for this The hope is to have a regular capacity building opportunity for organizers interested in We'll be announcing that soon Keep an eye out for announcements in the telegram channels and other spaces Additionally, there's two campaign cycles that are relevant to this theme Both the African knowledge initiative Campaigns that were recently announced by Felix on the African Comedians mailing list with the wikipedia residents Cess Laos who is a wonderful organizer of wiki loves Africa and their campaigns And they're going to be doing other interventions around youth environment in Africa day And we will be doing a Earth Day campaign cycle again That will include the wiki for human rights topics, but also other sustainability topics So keep an eye out for that announcement Those on the channels we've used so far Additionally because The wikipedia movement is one of the big open Communities working on climate. I wanted to highlight a grant that was given to the open climate community group This is a group posted by open environmental data and apropedia who are allies of the wikipedia movement They are going to be announcing fellowships for organizers in the Wikipedia movement who want to connect with other people and other parts of the open movement around climate and sustainability These the collaborations are designed to be take the open movements values And kind of connect them to the climate movement and the moment we're in now if you want to follow more you can Go to apropedia in the open climate page and lastly We want to keep you involved There are two telegram channels that where we share all the updates about these sustainability work the specific to the wiki for human rights campaign telegram channel and The wikipedia for sustainability development one both of these have opportunities and like the role that ruby played this year Michelle the year before we had another organizing fellow role for this year part of the goal of the campaign is to rotate Coordination of the campaign amongst different organizers within wikipedia movement to give them an opportunity to network and learn how to design these campaigns As ruby was saying it's a really important opportunity For you know development and learning if it's you really need chance to dive deep and then go back into your part of the movement and use those goals so apologies for the disruption in the Session and it's really I hope the next part of the The program is able to continue And we're really excited that we So I will be sharing links to these opportunities in the various telegram channels and it's really exciting and thank you Michelle ruby and Given sova for Hanging in there and trying to come back. I realize that when presentations are disrupted. It's always challenging. So I'm Lots of appreciation For everyone involved the 40 community events the 700 participants only happens when we pull together as a movement to address topics for impact and this is the the future that movement strategy and other parts of the Movement strategy wants us to go and so I'm excited for this and we hope we can keep learning together on how to do this better each year So, thank you. And if you have questions, please reach out to us in the telegram groups and again Because of the disruption. I do expect very many people to be in the channel and we hope we can Connect more if you have questions and either plan I will try to answer them. But otherwise, please connect with us in the I Am yeah And we saw some people so if you have Questions feel free to drop them in the chat. We can we can respond to it. I just discovered that they're folks still hanging out We can definitely respond to those are the etherbed So sitting come across and come from different parts of our class and that's for the Campaign it was a site for we learn we talked about Most of them So in helping to bridge the contents club on a social work, about 5 to 10 years from Ghana and Africa. Hi, my name is Ruzina Mishipam, I'm a fellow at the Ruzina Foundation for Ruzina Human Rights. One thing I learned from this workshop is that you don't have to be a professional to publish a stuff. The little you can do, edit your words, add a meaning, add an explanation to something and then it goes a long way. And also be sure to try as much as possible to publish every little thing that have been delivered to good data, that can change Ghana and Africa on the mark. Hi everyone, my name is Ibanaliti from the Ruzina Human Rights Wax Show. This program has been essentially an exciting one. I've been working with Ibanaliti as to how climate change is changing the world and how I can contribute to my culture, to the development and to the acquisition of climate change. With education, I've had the opportunity to contribute to the development of climate change and to the development of the world. My name is Ibanaliti and I'm a member of the Ruzina Human Rights Wax Show. I'm here to share my experience. The first thing I learned was the ability to edit from Wikipedia and also how to write our own story to help people make money. Hi everybody, my name is Sarah from Wikipot Human Rights Wax Show. So I joined this work this to the Wax Show and I learned a lot, particularly how to edit for the edits on issues relating to the environment and climate change. Initially, I came with some very funny discussions about how to do that. But I've been really enlightened that it's more than just editing things but I'm doing too much like you can actually perfect everything. And it's very, and it's explained, the sources are really credible as well. So I've been really enlightened and I hope to be, to benefit your community and the campus, the ground campus where I grew up. Thank you. So I'm going to play the community video as well. There's one live video and one check. I don't like to see mine. We see it. It's not coming through completely correctly. Hello again. For some reason the screen share is not working on the video. I think the... Okay, this is a little bit challenging. We're not getting a proper... We're not getting a proper screen share in the audio. Yeah, were there any other questions or observations we wanted to capture on video? I think we will see the floor because of the complexities that happened here. I'm so sorry. I did answer a question in the chat about the community of foundations positioning on renumeration and stuff. The place to look for information about our human rights positions about how the foundation supports human rights is through the human rights impact assessment and the other parts of the other part of the organization that's focused on human rights. You can ask specific questions there on the talk page. My team is not a policy team. It is an organizing team and so we aren't the primary stakeholders. I suggest we stop the session because we don't have any more questions and the video playback is not working very well.