 event and I'm very happy to share with you a session about media Tunisia and with a surprise at the end of this session. So I will share my screen now. So welcome everybody. So in this session we'll talk about Tunisia and our user group. Before talking about our activities, let me present to you members of Okimedia Tunisia who are present here. So I will start with myself. I'm Okimedia since 2010 and I'm mainly active on Okimedia Commons as an admin and also I contribute in Arabic and French Okimedia. And then I'm 70-30. I've been working here since 2009. I started as a contributor in Tunisia focusing on reference for and in Arabic topics. Before I started, I was 19 years old. I'm a developer in Tunisia, related to e-data, transfer data, etc. I'm a manufacturer at Adcom. I'm a member of the Communion 2022 Corporation and I'm a member of the program committee of several media conferences. So in my life, I'm a media student. I'm also a volunteer research assistant at a newly founded research unit at the University of Prague. This is the third ever media research unit in the media and we are hoping to communicate with each other all over the country. Thank you. So I would like to share. Hello everybody of the New York, I am Asger and I hope to meet you again. I'm here as the chairman of the MTOC, which is a session for the health of Tunisia, Tunisia. So mainly I support every activity related to training of it and I am happy to support the activities of Tunisia and Tunisia. We are in this department from the Communion and we support very many ways. Thanks to you all and I hope to talk to you later. Hi, all. Thank you. Hey folks, just one moment. Who do you come closer to the mic? The interpreters are having a bit trouble hearing you. No, please carry on, but just get closer to the mic. Hi everyone, I'm David, I'm the CEO of the MTOC, and I'm a former member of the Prague Regina. I work in residence in Venice. I'm a part of the MTOC, and I'm a former member of the MTOC, and I'm a former member of the MTOC. Who are you looking for? I'm a former member of the MTOC, and I'm a former member of the MTOC, and I'm a former member of the MTOC, It's very close for me to give you a picture of us. Welcome to this meeting of the three of us this week. I would like to remain as the leader of the group and on behalf of the organization. I need to talk to you about the media and the response. Thank you. Hello, my name is Richard. I've been working for you for a few years now on some projects, but I did I wish it was a really good idea. My name is Richard. I'm the founder of the media center in St. John's, and that is my name. And I'm the chairman of the All of this to our viewers, we want to thank you all for sharing your activities in the chat. Thank you so much. Thank you for sharing your activities in the chat. Thank you. Thank you for sharing your activities in Tunisia. Then we are talking now about our group, Wikimedia Tunisia or Wikimedia TN User Group. So the idea is quite old. So since 26, we have an idea of a chapter, a local chapter in Tunisia, but really in 2010 we started thinking about creating a user group, and then in 2014 we have a recognition of our user group as an official user group of Wikimedia Foundation. It was the first one in the Middle East, in North Africa, and a lot of user groups are joining the community after our event. So we are talking here about what we did in our user group. So in 2015 we organized the first Arabic meeting, the regional meeting about Wikimedia in Arabic and for contributors in Arabic language, and it was held here in Monastir at the same time where we are now, and we gathered about 50 participants from different Arabic and non-Arabic countries. And this is the photo group of the participants, where back to 2015. Also we organized the third African meeting, which is Wikimdaba in Tunisia, and we had more than 60 participants in this regional meeting. And this is also a picture of participants in this conference. In the COVID pandemic we have also organized the Wikimedia Focusson online, and it was a totally online event. We had 200 participants in this conference and some participants in this conference also. In our user group, since the starting of our user group, we had a lot of workshops in Tunisia, and people in Tunisia. So I'm just sitting with the chance to record a picture of the Wikigap and also we organized workshops and participated in many Wikilovs contests. Projects in our user group were organized in Tunisia, in the city of Tunis, and then another project similar to Wikimedia, which is another partner of Wikimedia Tunisia. We had a lot of educational programs in universities, in the pandemic we had a lot of projects, but we had some interviews and meetings online. We provided some contributors and we spoke about the movement and we had this activity every week. Then the last project which is not online yet, it's a documentary with another user group, Wikimedia and it is a documentary about a person, a writer, and a very famous writer who shared this project on Wikibedia Commons mass. Here we speak about what is specificities or some cultural specificities of Tunisia. I'm very happy to share with you the couscous, which is a famous dish in the North African region. It's added to the UNESCO list in 2020. I'm very happy to share with you that we have here couscous and maybe I will show you the second dish. I don't know if you see the first one or getting the first one. This is maybe the second dish. Thank you. This is a very famous dish in Tunisia, it's couscous here with chicken. Vegetables, yes. The second dish is I think some friend of mine told me that it's very famous, it's some vegetable eggs and I think it's with merguez, no? Only vegetables. Yeah, so this is shakshuka. Karim has the information about Bouga. Bouga is the first house Karim told me the first beverage in Tunisia. Soft drink in Tunisia and still exists still now. Then we have some pastries and but wood, fricassee and some local pastries from Tunisia. So maybe next time in person, maybe in Tunisia, I invite you all to taste this dish from Tunisia. This dish is from Tunisia. This is fricassee and this is from Tunisia. This is fricassee and this is the article about Bouga, soft drink. That's it. Does anyone want to add something? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. It's a pleasure. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hey, uh, Thank you Yes, we contribute to the three editions of India, actually, but the most, the most edition of which we are using are the Arabic and French. We actually use the fact that English is the language of the world now. In the first spoken language, we will try to have more confusion there with more new speakers, new sounds, new ideas taken. How many people in Tunisia speak French? How many people in Tunisia speak French? No one. I think that we have a dream of learning how to speak English. Okay. All of the inclusion platforms, we presented them to all of them, but actually, very few of them have been done in the Arabic language. We only need to organize the event in Tunisian language. So I love the language. It's important. It depends on the theme of the class. And then we go on and on. We go on with the language. We go on with the language. How about the human being? How about the human being? How about the human being? Officially, when we opted the registration for the membership of the user group, we had over 200 registrations. Now, yeah. 200, but mainly active in Wikimedia projects, we have a dozen of very active Wikimedia. So we have a lot of people who are doing this. They are doing it because they want to see what's going on in Wikimedia. They want to see what's going on in Wikimedia. I don't know if you can hear me. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Hello, folks. If you speak, can you get closer to Habib? Habib is the only one that has a good sound right now. So get closer to Habib, please, if you're speaking. Thank you. So, this question is not here, it's not here. I was saying that Tunisian art is famous about its taste and its science. This one is very, very nice. The post-pastry is from a pre-dumped piece of an idea. It is really cool. It can be something completely different. Any other questions? About the food, about Tunisian, about the taste of the food. We have common history. We have common challenges and common situations. So, we are brothers. Especially in our home. Especially in our home. Well, we miss you too. Happy Tunisian. Tunisian is often installed on people from all over the world. 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Next slide, please. So this tool can be very useful, for example, to use your phone as a audio device in a museum in a city to scan the QR codes for monuments, for mosaics, or paintings, or statues, and listening to their related Wikipedia articles. The goal of this tool, of course, to provide a better experience to the user who is going to scan the QR code, but also it can be also motivation to generate more Wikipedia articles, to generate more pre-recorded audio files on comments, so it will motivate the community to work and to produce more content. So it has double goal. One for the community to produce more content, to keep the audio files, and a better experience to the user who is going to scan the QR codes and to listen to the Wikipedia article. What is next, for example, we can also improve the tool to be based on augmented reality. So one of the limitations of, I mean, the Wikipedia, it's based on QR codes. So it requires that there is a generated code that we need to place right in front of the monument or in the museum. But using the augmented reality, it's possible that the system detects the monument or detects the piece exposed in the museum, and then trigger automatically the audio file related to the Wikipedia article. So this can be a next step to improve your tool. Thank you very much. If you have questions, I would be happy to answer them. So again, just to... this tool is inspired from Queerpedia and has the advantage to be multilingual. So use one QR code. It's possible to have to listen to different articles in different languages. It can be in English, in French, in Chinese, in Spanish. So of course, this is what requires that we need to create the Wikipedia article, and this is a motivation for the community to work and document the monument and the museums. So these questions, it's worked wonderfully in English. However, there is a problem with the other languages. So for the other languages, I think the problem when there is no audio file on comments. For a better experience, it's good to, I mean, to record the Wikipedia articles and to upload it in comments. Recording a Wikipedia article and upload it to comments can be used by other people who cannot read correctly the Wikipedia article so they can listen to it. So it's also a motivation to provide more audio content on comments as well. So the problem can happen when there is no pre-recorded audio files on comments. So the system will try to generate text-to-speech audio file and this can, of course, it's automatic generation so we can have some issues. But if you are going to use this tool in a project in a museum or in a World Heritage City, so the community will try to document all the monuments and record articles and upload them on comments and make these audio files available for everyone. And it can be also a collaboration with the blind user group, for example, to record these audio files as well. So I would like to thank my friend Hosea for working on this project together. And we hope to keep working on it and prove it and to also integrate the augmented reality feature. So we don't need to generate records anymore and the system will be able to detect automatically the monuments or the exposed collection in the museum. So thank you very much. Thank you for all the team behind Kimania, the COT team and all the volunteers and the production team for this opportunity and goodbye. Hello everyone and thank you for joining us this evening if you're in that time zone or afternoon, wherever you are. Welcome to the final in the series of movement strategy implementation lightning talks. In our session today we have three speakers. I will call out our speakers. Please just raise your hand and wave when I mention your name. Anthony is joining us today. We'll be speaking. Hello Anthony. This way. Good. Also joining us today is Mali from Wikimedia Norway. Mali please wave. And also Nikki is joining us from Wikimedia. Wave Nikki. Anthony is joining us from Wikimedia Tanzania. We use a group. In our session this, in our session today, we will be, you'll listen to our speakers talk about, you'll listen to our speakers talk about their ongoing projects. They'll be speaking about their movement strategy projects. These are projects that are happening across various communities currently. And these are super tangible projects. You might have asked yourself the question if movement strategy is happening. What does it look like and what does it actually mean? So in the session today you'll hear about people who are leading or co-leading on these projects. And you'll also learn about what movement strategy actually means in very practical terms. Listen out for thoughts that our speakers will be sharing as they share about future goals and projects. This is where you might find some inspiration or where you might find opportunities to connect, collaborate, or even develop some ideas for projects within your own community. Some quick reminders that as you're listening and something comes to mind, if there's anything you'd like to ask our speakers today, please drop the question in chat. And when the speaker is done, we will ask the question or we will raise the question at the end of the session. Each speaker will share their project challenges, learnings and future goals. So feel free as they're speaking to drop in your questions. Without further ado, we'll go to our first speaker in this session. This is Anthony. Anthony, over to you. Thank you so much, Yop. As Yop introduced me, my name is Anthony Tavango from the Wikimedia community in Tanzania. And my little background is that I joined the Wikimedia movement six years ago. And for this time I have been working together or collaboratively with other East African Wikimedians. In case you're wondering what are the East African Wikimedians communities? We have about 11 countries geographically, they are together, and some of them are near to the East African region. So we term them as East African Wikicommunities. And this turns near Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Zambia, Botswana, Congo, and others. So when I joined the Wikimedia movement and after realizing that there is this community within our region, I realized that the challenge is we lack the collaboration and the coordination among ourselves in regard to collaboration in doing Wikimedia foundation projects. Next slide. So the challenges that I saw and we saw and we are trying to solve and trace is community. In the region we have like, as I said, like 11 countries, 11 communities, but only three of them are the recognized user groups, which is Tanzania, Uganda, and Congo. So we saw there was an equity in different scenarios such as capacity building and resources distribution among these communities. So we decided to work together. And in 2019, two scenarios happened. We had an in-person capacity building in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. And in the same year we met for movement strategy summit in Kampala, Uganda. That's where we now started like coming together. Okay, guys, we have to unite and, you know, explore some common challenges that we can solve together. So also we identified some resources that can help us to solve the issue of underrepresented languages in our community or in our region. Currently we have Swahili. This is a unifying language that in most of these communities they do speak. But here we have other languages that are not represented on the working platforms. So we are working together using Swahili as a unifying language to make sure that other languages as well that are underrepresented are being digitized. So in relation to movement strategy, we are trying to experiment with new methods of community engagement, which is the establishment of East African Journal and the thematic hub. Regional meaning geographically somewhat located in the same area, plus in the nearby countries. Also thematic for the sense that we have a unified language which is Swahili. At the same time, we thought there is a need to gather around languages. Okay, next slide. Yes, so what we learned from working with these communities was that speakers of endangered languages have different ways of speaking and writing. So sometimes it's difficult to engage them collaboratively. So we are trying to reach each community individually through this project, which is East African Regional and the thematic hub, trying to understand what are the basic needs, what are the basic problems the communities are faced in areas. Also, the unstandardized languages have different varieties difficult to deal with. Sometimes when you are crying like, okay, these communities are not represented in languages, these languages sometimes they do lack written materials that can be used to digitize them. Also, there are our fellow community members, users of signed languages. Sometimes we are like difficult to engage them in one of the one or two of the active websites. Next slide. Yes, so our future goals and the projects that we are working on is we are trying to bridge the content. And this is, we are working in the area of innovating in free knowledge to see what are the basic level of new ways that we can come up with to tackle the problem of lack of content. So we are trying to bridge our local African languages as well as on Swahili Wikipedia. So we are trying to bring participation in matters from the underrepresented communities by having a structure that act as an umbrella for all of us to learn, share knowledge, share resources and so on. So we are trying to see what are the topics that matter to our region, and as well as, as I said, innovating in free knowledge, allowing people to come with new innovative ways how we can solve problems in our region, East Africa. Next slide. That's in natural, that's what I can say, and that's what we are doing in East Africa currently, and to finalize our project currently is only the phase of planning and research. We want to investigate more, we want to do some more detailed research to understand whether the people in East Africa being called the East African region on the thematic hub, and what do they think, whether it can be a solution to their problems. If you will have some questions, I'll be happy to answer later. I can indicate for now. Thank you. Back to you, Yop. Thank you very much, Anthony. Definitely interesting to hear what's coming out of the research at the moment and how you are planning to engage with the communities further down the line. It would be nice to see how the East Africa group, or the East Africa region sort of comes, comes together at a later point and what people end up prioritizing. I do have a question, but we'll save that for the end of the session for everyone who's listening. Don't forget, while the speaker speaking, don't you can drop in your question. I'll ask those questions when they're done. There are no questions that I see in the chat at the moment. So we'll go straight to our next speaker, and that is Nikki. Nikki, over to you. Thank you, Yop. Thanks for the opportunity to share today. And I am working as part of the movement strategy and global relations team at Wikimedia Germany. And in that capacity, I contributed to the project that we are talking about today. And that project is called the capacity exchange. Let me go to the next slide. So the capacity exchange is a project which right now is being looked at for doing in Europe, but we're also the concept can be used anywhere, and it can be scaled to any region, or in fact to the entire Wikimedia movement at some point. So the idea is was developed in response or basically comes out of the movement strategy recommendation number six, where it says develop a peer matching platform so people can exchange capacities with each other. And capacities here means skills, knowledge, resources, all kinds of things that you and median may have no or have access to that another Wikimedia might benefit from. So the idea is really that the wisdom and the experience and the knowledge is in the movement. And we just need to find ways to find it. And the way that we're trying to do that is by creating a platform. Sorry, I'm dealing with a cat here. So the idea is to have a platform the way you can go on and you can enter your information. So basically the exchange facilitates finding each other. And then what happens after that, we haven't really thought about it. So basically the exchange facilitates finding each other. And then what happens after that, we haven't really thought about it. So basically the exchange facilitates finding each other. And then what happens after that, we haven't really thought about that part yet too much. But what happens after that is basically up to the people so they can support each other. So where we are at right now with this project is we have created a what software developers call a minimum viable product. We have used an existing software platform that was called the Open Educational Resources World Map and have to change the categories and the word and some of the interfaces in it. So we have our own cloud, Wikimedia cloud and we're like this close to having users test it. We have to do a few things and a few translations, but definitely next two weeks from now we'll have a smaller user group test it. And then we also have a clinic at the Wikimedia Summit in September where other people can test it. And that we do that we can receive some feedback both on how does it work, does it make sense, if you're all right. And also for the user experience as well as on the categories that are in the platform. Once we receive that feedback, I think we see the project moving to the next stage where we will probably need some more software development. You know, improve it, make it better, launch it for basic all Wikimedians want to try using it and finding a fiscal home for the for this next phase. So that's currently our challenge is to find a an affiliate who would like to be the applicant for movement strategy implementation grant and take this to the next level. And that seems to be harder than we thought to find that affiliate, but we really feel like the next phases should be staffed so there should be somebody taking care of the project. We can no longer do it with a group of volunteers or people who have very limited amount of time to put into this. Now you can go to the next slide. Oh, this is our logic model. So I'm not going to walk you through that because it's going to have a headache and it's like really small on this too. But you can find that logic model and other information about the capacity exchange and how to contact us on our meta page, of course. And if you would like to be part of the test user group, we'd love to welcome you. We have a session for that on August 26. So send us a note and we'll add you to the test user group. So challenges. I wasn't sure if this question was about the challenges we're trying to address with our project or the challenges that we're trying to face that we're facing as we're trying to do this project. So, but one challenge that we definitely see and that also has been discussed during movement strategy during the writing of the recommendations is can we get people in the movement to use a platform that is not meta. Full knowing full well knowing that meta does not have the features that we are looking for in this platform. You know, we're looking for more interactive features and a certain level of curation as well. So it's not this project. We don't see it happening on a wiki because we want it to be searchable we want people to be findable. And so for a number of reasons and also because during women's strategy formation, a lot of people who who provided input into the skills and leadership development topics said, please use something else. Let's not use meta for this. The same goes for the knowledge base. That's also part of strategy recommendation six. So we're sticking our head out that window and going to see if people will accept the not meta thing that we're doing. Again, another challenge is finding a temporary home for the project so like a fiscal sponsor or somebody wants to write that grant and administer and incubate it so to speak through the next phase. So if you are running a chapter, wink, wink to Norway, you want to, you want to run this project for the next couple of years before then I see it. And that's just my vision. But I see it being added to a hub at some point or becoming part of the capacity building hub. So I see those this next phase as a temporary phase as well. So that's basically what I wanted to share with you today. If you're coming to the wiki media summit, please join our testers. If you want to do that before August 26 and as a message through a meta page. And we're super excited testing this, this project and seeing if it can help really sort of build the social capital and build mutual aid and solidarity and connections across a movement so we can really become a movement. Where people have an opportunity to support each other. Oh, what I learned. Okay. There's only so much you can achieve as volunteers. That's basically I said this, you know, we're a small group of volunteers wiki media Ireland wiki media Netherlands. And and Germany and at this point, we need to move the project on to more solid footing. And so we need to be clear about the resources for the next phase of the project. But this is all sort of project mechanics what's important is that we try this and that wiki medians make use of it. Thank you. Thank you very much, Nikki. This is an interesting project. And, you know, I did get the opportunity to look through the diagram that was too tiny and complicated but for anyone who's interested, I would say, take the time to look through that diagram. It's a really interesting theory of change is the way I would put it. Nikki, would you agree? It's a really interesting theory of change. I think anyone would do well to take a good look at it, especially if you're sort of interested in skills in capacity exchange at some level and interested in seeing how your communities can find the best tools and resources to build their own capacities and see how that would work taking a systems lens approach within the movement. Thank you very much, Nikki, for sharing that. We will. Do we have any questions? I think we do have one question here. This one question from dealer. Can you can you read it or should I read it out for you? I think I can read it. I zoomed in. I got found the trick on feed loop and you can zoom during a session. So the question, Nikki, is regarding not using matter for their project, could MS forum be useful for you in any way? And if yes, how? I think not because we're we're that's it's a different animal. I think MS forum is a forum for conversation. Whereas the capacity exchange is basically a database. So it's a database of of people and organizations and skills and resources. And so in that sense, it's not a social network. I think I can see it, you know, being complimentary to the forum for sure, and being complimentary to the knowledge base whoever is going to hopefully build that in the near future. But yeah, I don't unless the forum has like, secret magic powers that I haven't figured out yet. But what we're really looking at is it is creating a database. All right. Thank you. Secret magic powers to the MS forum. Let's add that to platform upgrades, please. Thank you very much, Nikki, for sharing. And without any further questions on Q at the moment, we'll go to our last but definitely not police because it's an infection. Mali over. Hello. Thank you. Thank you for the introduction. And I just want to start with Nikki, I will follow up on that. We'll definitely sign up for the user group. It sounds very interesting. But for now, my name is Mali, I'm from Wikimedia and Norway. And today I am going to present to you the language diversity hub project. So you can go to the next slide, please. We launched the idea of the language diversity hub last year. And without really knowing what the hub is or going to be or what it is. And maybe it will totally change the name. It's not so important. But we have seen for a long time, and not only we in Wikimedia and Norway, when I say we, we are a group of many people from different language communities that has been involved in the small and the new language versions of Wikipedia. What has been clear for a long time is that there are challenges, there are barriers, it's difficult to be a small language and especially an indigenous language with only extra you might have in the history. So there is a need in the movement to take care of those languages. And when the movement strategy initiatives came and the hubs was a part of that. That is like an open door, we grasped it. So the language diversity hub might be something else than a hub, but for now we're using that name. Just to have that clear. And if you want to know more, we had actually a presentation earlier today in one of the other tents. It was my colleague and also Sadik presenting and they will go more deep into the research we're into. But last year we applied for a movement strategy implementation grant. And we have this enormous ambition of being a fantastic support structure to make it easy for small languages to have their own Wikipedia. But to get there, we kind of have to know what their problems are. So we decided we are going to do, we want to identify what the small languages thinks of as barriers when they are trying to use Wikipedia. And to do that, we decided, well, we have to talk to them. So we are doing 13 group interviews. I mean, with 13 different language communities that we have specifically chosen for this purpose, and to make them tell us in their own words, what is difficult, or not only what is difficult, but what is working. We want to talk to them about their motivations. We want to understand how is the process that they write in Wikipedia. Through this, we hope to find specific technical barriers that we can solve hopefully quite quickly. We want hope to find things that where we can make one solution that fits many. And we hope that we might find that someone has solved something in one corner of the world. And that solution can be shared amongst other because that is when we are a hub. Because in the end, the hub is bridges and multiple bridges where traffic and information flows freely. So this very much resonate with what Nikki has been talking about that we are. And actually, I wrote on what you said, we have so much knowledge and wisdom in this movement. But we don't know how to make it flow well to the ones who really need it. And with all the language barriers that are between those smaller language communities, the flow is even harder. So that's it, challenges. We want to see the barriers that are limiting smaller language communities to really thrive on Wikipedia, to really use those fantastic tools that we have. We want to explore how we can be a hub, a multilingual hub moving between all the continents and all these languages. And of course, we want to work towards knowledge equity and equity in decision making. We want to make the money also flow towards where it needed. So it can be used in the way that is best for the communities in whatever ways we can do that. So of course, everything that Anthony was saying earlier today is, I mean, we are all, we are so many actually working with the same issues, but we are on so many different levels. And that is definitely also a challenge. We are trying to be a part of the solution here. How can all of us that are working with the same thing come together and build the same bridge instead of building many small bridges and not knowing about each other? Yes, please. The next slide. And I'm sorry if I'm talking too fast. I have a tendency to do that. What have we learned? Well, we haven't gotten too many research results or interviews back yet. So I don't have any concrete problems that we are going to fix. But what we have definitely learned is that there are so many other groups thinking the same thoughts, working towards, I mean, wanting something like this language diversity hub. And we see that we have to do a lot of work aligning to make sure that everyone is included and to make sure that everybody hears about us too. So we are not establishing tons of similar structures when we could actually work together. We are getting good feedback. So we are sure that a structure like the language diversity hub is needed. But of course we are very open to develop it further. And of course that is what this grant is about. We are very open for everyone who wants to join, for everyone who wants to tell us, share an idea. Yeah. We have one more collaboration going on with Wikitongues. So we have gotten a grant together with them. And I want to invite others who want to do projects and are not sure how to do it alone to contact us and maybe we can do stuff together. Yeah. Because collaboration is a key here. Can you move on please? Yes. So the first project, the first goal here now is to be a loudspeaker, an amplifier. I feel, especially in the beginning of this process, that it was very common to say we have this problem. We have put it in fabricator. We have been saying this needs to be fixed and no one listens. It doesn't come through. It's not prioritized because maybe it's a tiny little group or a person that don't know enough people that are saying it and they don't come through. So we hope that we can be that kind of amplifier to put all the voices together to make sure that the technological solutions are being prioritized to make changes faster to suit the smaller language communities. I have called it short term and long term. It might be the wrong terminology, but at least a short term goal is to be bridging the gaps in content, bridging the gaps in participation for Wiki projects by finding solutions to make more people being able to participate. So that is something that we will be working on all the time and more when we actually know what might be limiting for people. The long term goal with this whole project is that it's an independent structure. We are many and I'm not going to start naming names because I'm afraid to forget someone, but we have handpicked an interim steering committee last year after we organized the Arctic Nutz conference. We have chosen people who have knowledge, who have passion, who have a track record, who have worked with language diversity for a while. So we knew they knew a lot and they had issues. They had things they wanted to be fixed. So they have already been saying this needs to be done, this needs to be done. And the long term goal is that Wikimedia Norge is not going to be the horse pulling this wagon. It's an independent unit within our movement that is governed by good democratic structures as appropriate Wikimedia something. So it's an honor to be in a tiny little affiliate up here in the north, not so cold at the moment, but colder than most of the world. And to be able to pull this forward, like Cornelius was mentioning earlier, this is an important thing for our movement. And I look forward to set the sales and see more people aboard and see where we are going to reach. Yes, I think that was all for me. Thanks you for listening and I look forward for questions. Thank you very much as well, Mali. Thank you so much. Your work is always super interesting and always definitely interesting to learn what you are learning as you're speaking. And engaging in our communities. I'm looking in the chat. Do we have any questions? I see one from Tilla. Is that a question? Oh, okay. Tilla just added some more information for those who might be interested. Right, so we have 15 minutes to go in the session today. I do have a few questions and don't forget you can drop questions in the chat for us because I'll come back to you, Anthony, from what you shared earlier on while you shared about what you were learning. I'm curious if there are any further insights on the users of sign language. You mentioned that they're difficult to engage with. Is there anything that you're finding? Are there any pieces that are coming through? Doesn't have to be. Hello, Anthony, did you get my question? Sorry, Yop, I think there was a delay a bit. Can you repeat again? Okay, so the question was about, you know, from what you shared about what you're learning. You mentioned about insight. You mentioned something about users of sign language. I find often that sometimes we mention sign language is not on that list too often. It's like Yop is breaking up. Is Yop just frozen for me or is it all for you guys too? For all of us. Anthony, did you get the question that she was trying to phrase? No, okay. She was asking about your language speakers and why it is difficult to work with them and what you've learned about working with them. Alright, thank you for the question. So Yop, can you repeat again the question from Yop because she didn't break up at the end? She found it very interesting. She was about to say that she was interested in the insights on the users of sign language. And she said that you've mentioned that they are difficult to engage with. You have said this and so do you have any ideas how to engage them in the wikis on wiki? Alright, so I said one of the areas that you are seeking to work on through this project that we are doing, which is African language thematicism, is trying to invest on the area of innovating in free knowledge. So the wikimedia movement so far is trying hard to include everyone within this movement, irrespective of the physical status or mental status or something. So it becomes something interesting to find out. I don't have answers yet, but it is one of the things that we want to find out through this project. Like how do we bring this knowledge, language gaps through these people who are not conversing with us through the national ways that we use. So what I can say is maybe after this project we can come up with some ideas from people from the community members, because that's what exactly we are going to do, engage them, listen to them, what are the problems facing the communities and how we think this thing, the innovation or the regional and thematic hub can help them. So we are trying to find out. I don't have the clear answers for now, but it is what we are trying to find. How can we make everyone inclusive in this movement? I don't know if your point did answer your question. And at some point it's quite interesting. Yes, it's an additional point. You find that there is, you have the, you want to include people, maybe let's say on weak editathons to create some content or something. But the problem is how do you communicate with them? How do you teach them? We the trainers ourselves, we don't know sign languages. And there is a real scarcity of these people who knows sign languages. But I hope and I have confidence that as we go, as long as we set some good environment for these people to be found to help us on these areas someday at some time we can include them on this movement in any way. So let's stay tuned for innovative ideas around that area. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Anthony. Yes, it's like you said, like you said, what we're all learning and I've spoken, you know, with the few people from other communities, for instance, Tony and Carol in Macedonia trying to address a similar, similar issue. I think my network is still a bit problematic, but if you can hear me Cornelius, I know you have a question for Mali, maybe you can ask that. Yeah, the question I was interested how you as a, we can meet at Norway as an affiliate in the so-called Global North will ensure equity in your future abstraction when dealing with small language communities that, let's say, in the so-called Global South. How do you manage the implicit or explicit power dynamics? Do you have an idea for that? Yes. Yeah, it's a very, it is a very good question and it's a very, it's something we are very mindful of constantly. So when we were putting together the steering committee, we were trying to, I mean, we were really looking to have a balanced gender, Global South, different kinds of communities. And so I'm not sure if it can ever be perfect, but I think the most important is that to keep that constant, I mean, to keep asking ourselves who is not represented now and who needs to be here and who is not at the table. And we actively asking because it's easy to be, easy to be compliant and say, hey, but we are doing a good job and this is fine, but we always have to be just asking the questions here, having the discussions within the group. And of course, we are a very privileged country up in the north, but an advantage is that we also are a pretty small language. We are good in English. So that's a huge advantage being in Norway, but we know how it is to be small in some parts. We are, nobody else speaks Norwegian. Why would they? We have two written languages in Norway. So we can always somehow know how it is to be kind of on the sideline. But we are so privileged in so many other ways and we are trying to use that privilege to lift up the other voices. So I hope that it will not be me presenting this for many years in the future. We need, we want others to be representing. And we have that. Yeah. It's a good question, Cornelius. No, thank you. Thank you. I hope that share more next next year's Wikimedia. Like, interesting to see if you could, besides the work on the hub, share these reflections on that level, on that question. Because I think that's something many others can learn from. I think you muted. Okay. Sorry about that. I was saying, yes, the conversation is super interesting. So it was nice to listen to you both. And interesting thoughts there, Mali. John, who's, John, who's in the chat says there's a test Wikipedia in American Sign Language in the Wikimedia in Cubeta. And there's a link there. It would be good for. And by the way, John works with his co-project partner with Mali on this project. So he's sharing some updates, some more updates from the project. I do have a question now for you, Nikki. This is, you know, just regarding the next and the plans for the capacity exchange program. You, you put out a call to action for affiliates that might be interested in taking this forward. So I'm curious, while I know Mali has said, yes, the others will might be interested. What might an affiliate consider or put take to, you know, what are the criteria, what would be needed, what kinds of capacities might be needed to implement this work. And besides perhaps interest, but what are you looking out for? What do you think of an affiliate should think about if they think of taking this forward? Yeah, I mean, we're certainly open to, to anyone who feels passionate about capacity building and wants to take this forward. I'm hoping that we can find an affiliate with capacity. So one of the things we talked about in the capacity building working group is that capacity building initiatives for the waking media movement are always so fleeting and they're never sustainably funded and they're never sustained. And you know, somebody does something on meta and then some people fill it out and then it's gone again. And so there was a very strong sentiment that this needs to be sustainably funded. And for me, part of that is also sustainably staffed. So a person who's more than a contractor but a person who has some job security through the funding and has, you know, maybe a two year timeframe to take it to the next level. That would, that would be ideal. Obviously, we can't always have ideal so we'll see what happens. But I'd like to see that sort of sustainability and continuity and stability, mostly, I guess, for the next phase of the project. And yeah, so an affiliate who has, you know, the ability to hire a person and pay benefits and sustain this project for a couple of years. All right. Okay. Sustainability and making sure that this can be handled for the next couple of years. I would, you know, we have about two minutes to go and we're about wrapping up on this. We'll just sort of throw out something open to our speakers today. If there's Mali, if there's anything you'd like to, based on the conversation so far, and what you shared. I just, I want to pick up this on sustainability from Nikki because that is one of the things we see that when we as an affiliate can run, can push this language hub forward. We secure that sustainability for a while to get it going. So for other initiatives, I see that, I mean, that is a huge advantage that we have. And we are very grateful and very conscious. And I see that, yeah, for other strategies as important, super important to secure that. So I hope you find it. Please contact us. Absolutely. And Anton, before we wrap up. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. I have something to say. And this is one thanks to my fellow colleagues who are the core team on organizing or working on East African region, a thematic hub. Douglas is a burglar and a weenie community. They have been supportive. All communities that are involved in East African communities. I encourage them to be tuned for the upcoming research and the planning for this project. So thank you. That's all from me for now. Thank you to Anthony and final words for me, Nikki. My God, the pressure. Thanks so much for this for the session. I want to thank the co-conspirators in this capacity exchange project. And I hope to have lots and lots of more join us. Thank you. All right. Who's listened in today. The session slides will be uploaded on comments and have been uploaded to the programs as well. Feel free to reach out to the movement strategy and governance team to discuss any inspiring ideas you might have for for your community. Thank you, Cornelius. Throwing out some questions. My has been my partner and support in all three lightning talk sessions. And I tell you it wouldn't go as fantastically it is as gone as it has gone without Cornelius. So thank you so much Cornelius. He's the man and the voice behind the slides as well. Don't forget you can also reach the movement strategy and governance team. You can reach us via email at any time to discuss your ideas, discuss your plans that are related to movement strategy implementation. Thank you.