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<p class="_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'YADLjI9qxTA 0', _fb_, auto; --font-size: 25.3333px; --line-height: 1.4; line-height: 35px;"><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="JsGRdQ">Below write a forum post about what the Topics for Impact Recommendation means to you. This can be a generic reflection or include specific examples from your participation in the Wikimedia movement.</span></span></p>
<p class="_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body" style="color: #000000; font-family: 'YADLjI9qxTA 0', _fb_, auto; --font-size: 25.3333px; --line-height: 1.4; line-height: 35px;"><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="JsGRdQ">If you need prompts for writing the post, consider answering some of the following questions:</span></span></p>
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<li><span class="JsGRdQ" style="color: #000000; font-style: italic;">What topics motivate you to contribute to Wikimedia projects? </span></li>
<li><span class="JsGRdQ" style="color: #000000; font-style: italic;">Why do you think your community choses to work on specific topics?</span></li>
<li><span class="JsGRdQ" style="color: #000000; font-style: italic;">What motivates organizers who facilitate different topical projects in your community?</span></li>
<li><span class="JsGRdQ" style="color: #000000; font-style: italic;">What kind of topics for impact activities have you done? What were the goals?</span></li>
<li><span class="JsGRdQ" style="color: #000000; font-style: italic;">What challenges does your community face in organizing around topics for impact?</span></li>
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<br /><strong>After writing your own post in the forum, read posts by other people in your cohort and react to at least one of their posts.</strong>
<p><span class="JsGRdQ" style="color: #000000; font-style: italic;"><strong>Consider responding to one of the following prompts after reading their posts:</strong> </span></p>
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<li><span class="JsGRdQ" style="color: #000000; font-style: italic;">What surprised you about the other classmate's reflection about topics for impact?</span></li>
<li><span class="JsGRdQ" style="color: #000000; font-style: italic;">Do you think a similar audience or topic exists for your context? Why or why not?</span></li>
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<blockquote><em>You successfully post an answer in the forum about a topic for impact.</em></blockquote>
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<blockquote><em>You respond to your peers in a way that expands their conversation.</em></blockquote>
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<blockquote><em>You demonstrate an understanding of the topics for impact concept in your response.</em></blockquote>
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<td style="width: 42.4242%; background-color: #f8c300; padding-left: 60px;"><strong><span class="JsGRdQ" style="color: #000000;">Need inspiration?</span></strong></td>
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<p>Here are some examples of how you could respond to the post:</p>
<p class="_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "YADLjI9qxTA 0", _fb_, auto; --font-size: 25.3333px; --line-height: 1.4; line-height: 35px; padding-left: 30px;"><span face="Open Sans, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I live in Argentina, and am personally am devastated by the lack of representation of women in public spaces in my country. All of the buildings are named after men, and it gets in the way of girls being inspired to participate in public life. When I learned that Wikimedia Argentina was running the <a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiconcurso/Mujeres_con_Calle" target="[object Object]">Mujeres con Calle </a>contest it excited me, because at the very least we could tell stories about the women in public spaces. But it doesn't go far enough, we need to also create content about women who aren't yet in public spaces, to inspire folks to change the situation.</span></p>
<p class="_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "YADLjI9qxTA 0", _fb_, auto; --font-size: 25.3333px; --line-height: 1.4; line-height: 35px; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="JsGRdQ">The <a href="https://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2018/07/23/osh-wikipedia/" target="[object Object]">National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health</a></span><span class="JsGRdQ"> in the United States has been organizing editathons and other Wikipedia activities over the last 5 years around the topics of workplace safety. As an organization, their mission is focused on helping workers in the United States have safe workplaces. By working on the topic, it both aligned with the organization’s goals, and helps them disseminate their research to the general public. However, they noticed that when they run events on the topics: not very many members of the public join, so they have decided to only focus on working with staff within NIOSH, instead of trying to do public events. For me, I am not very motivated by this topic, but I can see why that organization does what it does.</span></span></p>
<p class="_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-body" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "YADLjI9qxTA 0", _fb_, auto; --font-size: 25.3333px; --line-height: 1.4; line-height: 35px; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="JsGRdQ">In my community, in West Bangal, we organize <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Butterfly" target="[object Object]">Wiki Loves Butterflies</a>. Through it we document rare butterflies by both taking pictures of them, and embedding them in Wikipedia articles. Though the content has a very niche topic area: it's an important way to document biodiversity in a region with habitat loss and conservation challenges. The Organizers run photowalk with a very targeted group of participants: nature photographers. They have learned that retaining the existing community of wildlife photographers is important for sustaining the program.</span></span></p>
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