Yeah, let's go. So welcome everyone to the April 2019 Wikimedia Monthly Activities Meeting. Lincoln, the co-host, would also like to say hello, and is also joined by his friend Winston, so you may hear some chatter between them because they love to talk. So to get things started, let's jump into this month's agenda. And then we get the quicker. All right, so this is a relatively different meeting this month because we had a cancellation and we didn't have any other proposals. So we're gonna talk about that in a little bit and just a little bit about how this meeting works. So we're gonna have a movement update. We're gonna have a call for proposals for future meetings, which is where we're gonna talk just a little bit about this meeting. Then we're gonna have our usual movement strategy update with the wonderful movement strategy team. And then we're doing an experimental activity and that is the good news of the meeting. The bad news of the meeting is because of that, I am hosting, so I apologize that you have to see me hosting once again, but I felt awkward putting a host through an experiment that we invented this week. So we also are gonna be taking questions and discussions and of course doing our usual wiki live. So as a little bit of preparation, I'm gonna introduce the experimental activity now so that it doesn't catch you off guard later and you have a little bit of time to prepare. This is a relatively simple experiment based on a thought premise that people would like to hear about more activities happening across the movement, but at the same time, people are nervous giving a presentation about activities that they are working on. So we're gonna try something a little different this month. We're gonna ask people to give, it can be just literally the name, it can be like a one sentence description, you don't have to get in depth. If this encourages people to search for more information about your project on meta or media wiki or wherever it may be, that's great. You don't have to go in in depth. I can just be, I'm excited about this and this and that's all. And then you're gonna share two to three activities that other people are working on that you are also excited about. And you are allowed to repeat from others, although I seriously encourage you to try to come up with new activities to offer. So we're gonna try that little experiment later on in the meeting. If you are joining remotely, you can give your input into IRC and Joe will be able to pass it along. If you are here in person, we're gonna have microphones and we may even find a recruit to pass around a microphone as we've got a reasonably good crowd today. And if you are not able to do either of those two, if you get it done in the next like 15 minutes, you can email it to activitiesmeetingatwikimedia.org and we will make sure that it gets shared. So again, brevity is key and two to three activities of others, one or two activity that you are working on that you are excited about. Okay, so we're gonna give that a try a little bit later. But first, let's begin with our usual the movement update. It was a busy month for us. We've figured out some machine learning. Can I uncover Wikipedia's missing citation needed tags? We did a lot of great work there. We spotlighted that knowledge equity among the newest 20 community led project grants and we talked about those. These are links up on the Wikimedia blog if you're interested for more information. Unfortunately, a German court did force us to remove a part of a Wikipedia article's history. They ruled that the article had to be removed because it was bad, they didn't like that part. So we fought that in court. Unfortunately, we lost. They ruled that we were incorrect and that was the outcome of that. So that did happen. So in FYI on that, there's a blog post that goes into a lot more depth of what took place if you're curious, as I was very curious. We created our own future step closer. We had a great Wikimedia summit last month for folks there. Did folks in the audience go to that? Yes, I'm saying some noddy clap if you went. I know some people went. Okay, one person went, great, good. It was great. I hear a lot of wonderful things. If you'd like to hear from the folks who did go, check out that article. Very exciting news. We're ending in two really great pieces of information. One is that we have one of our newest chapter of four or five years, Wikimedia Korea has joined us. So we're super excited. So let's give them a round of applause that way everyone can clap. There we go. You can all be excited for Korea. And also we received an additional $3.5 million to the Wikimedia endowment from one of our advisory members and his wife. So wonderful news there on the endowment front. Coming up, we've got the hackathon taking place in May. So if you'd like more information about that, go on to Meadow or Media Wiki. And if you'd like information about Wikimedia 2019, go to wikimedia.wikimedia.org. So open registration, open call for proposals right now. And that's taking place in Sweden this year. So with that, we're gonna talk a little bit about this meeting. So a couple of years ago, we began retooling this meeting. And over the last year, we've really tried to open the format up so that anyone in the movement is able to participate. So what does that mean exactly? This is your meeting. This is an opportunity we used to go out and recruit for it. And that was kind of the old model. We moved away from that, partly because it's very time intensive. And also because the feedback we were getting from people is that we weren't always selecting topics that they were interested in. And since we've switched to allowing anyone to contribute topics, the feedback has been far more positive that people feel much more relevant to the things that they are doing. So we'd like to keep this model going, but the model only works if people contribute. So we wanna see your presentations here. These can be things about affiliate projects. These can be movement events. These can be talks about wiki, loves, insert, anything here. These can be about technical projects. These can also be about experiments or things that we tried out, both successful and teachable moments. As Asaf has talked about at past meetings and we've talked about online several times, it's really important to share things that we didn't always do well with each other to make sure that we learn from that and that we do it better the next time. So it's okay to talk about something that didn't go great, but it's also a lot of fun to talk about things that went great. So you can do that too. If you are interested in doing it, we've made it super easy to do. You just have to go to Meadowiki to the Wikimedia monthly activities meeting slash signup. There's a big button on the main page for the activities meeting. And if you need help with that, you can send us an email activitiesmeeting at wikimedia.org. So that's the quick PSA for this meeting. I hope you enjoyed that commercial. With that, we're gonna move on to the movement strategy update and I will pass it over to the wonderful Tanvir. Hi, thank you so much, Greg. What we are going to do today, we are going to do three things. The first one, I'm going to be an unofficial spokesperson for the working groups. And I'm going to try and call out some of the learning, some of the interesting things that they did around the Wikimedia Summit, because this time the Wikimedia Summit had a major player, which were the working group members talking to the affiliate members, understanding what their concerns were around the movement strategy process. The second thing that we are going to do is also try and quickly recapitulate some of the moments of the Wikimedia Summit itself and bring to light one of the very interesting things that was done this year, which was called Key Listeners. Then I'm going to hand it over to Edgar, who's from the Wikimedians of Ecuador to speak about what his experiences about the Wikimedia Summit this year was and what was the feedback that he has given to the working groups and to the movement strategy process. So without taking a lot of time, I will go into some of the key learnings and some of the key insights that the working groups have gleaned out of the Wikimedia Summit. If there are any mistakes, if I misrepresent them, all of this falls upon me and not on the working group members. If there are any questions, I'll try to address them and try to answer them. Otherwise, I'll make sure that I take it back to the working group members and then get back to you with responses. I noticed that we also have Liang, who's himself a working group member and it might be a good idea for him to clarify any questions that would be around capacity building. But before the question and answers, let's get into the conversation. So the advocacy working group, next slide please. Yeah, this was the Wikimedia Summit 2019. There were more than 210 people. Yes, that's the slide that I want, the working group members. Perfect, thank you so much. So this slide has been seen oftentimes and I think people are already beginning to have a revolution around this slide. But still, just for getting all the working groups around in the same place, this slide is helpful and I shall go alphabetically. So the advocacy working group collected feedback on two key questions. The first question was what does advocacy mean to you and what should we as movement advocate for? They've had a lot of insights, thanks to the Wikimedia Summit, the most important, they've had nine key insights that they have indicated but I will point out some of the insights that I believe are very cute, that advocacy needs resources and we also need a clearly defined set of values for advocacy. And the other key thing that I believe that came out of the Wikimedia Summit was advocacy done in the wrong way can endanger civil society. It points out to certain key questions, certain key challenges that the Wikimedia movement and open knowledge movement together will have to face. Moving to capacity building. The main takeaways for the capacity building working group during the Wikimedia Summit has been that language diversity is a barrier towards capacity building and we need to address possible solutions in the recommendations. The other key insight that they had was that one size does not fit all. No capacity building measure can be replicated without customization and without understanding the local context. Another one of that was capacity building should be about people in the first place, then about systems and then about structures. Everybody in the movement has something to offer and our movement has to have the humility and has to have the reciprocity to understand and to learn from it. One other insight that they had was that there needs to be a searchable and a findable knowledge base of best practices when they are needed. Moving on to community health. Community health worked out a timetable and identified their next steps until Wikimedia and the most amazing thing was that they were able to get 51 personal interviews in the span of three days with Wikimedians, with affiliate members. These were partly structured interviews which mainly looked into the scoping questions and they also provided new perspectives for the working group members and to also identify what were the blind spots in the conversations they were having. They've had a chance to plan their next steps. The next step would be a survey which is being rolled out very soon. So please respond to the survey when it hits your email boxes and also to conduct interviews to fill knowledge gaps. The diversity working group also had a very productive Wikimedia summit. One of the key insights was that the language that the diversity working group was using both in its official documents and in the conversation was too complex and there was an urgent need to simplify it. It constantly was noted that the scoping documents which were supposed to be an access point into conversation was itself complex and there had to be more attempts made to explain the scoping documents. The other insight according to the working group members is that the term diversity or the theme diversity is a very, very complex topic and they were afraid in the beginning they felt it was too challenging but now they understand that it is very significant and it is something that all of the working groups will have to pay attention to and that they would be able to have discussions and deliberations across working groups. The partnerships working group also had a very meaningful discussion. They have been able to chart out their next steps. They have been able to identify the support needs and they have also been able to come up with a tentative work plan which takes into account the feedback that they have received during the Wikimedia Summit and also they are looking forward to expanding the working group by adding new members. The product and technology working group faced some confusion about the scope of the working group when speaking to the chapter members and affiliates. They have also received feedback but this feedback interestingly was very programmatic and not structural in the way that the questions were framed. The feedback however is very useful to implement and to design and to roll out programmatic interventions but there needs to be a different kind of a conversation with community members to think together about the structural issues that are challenges or that needs to be reconciled around product and technology. One of the things that was highlighted by product and technology was that they could not talk about how to lower our learning curve to bring in new people into our movement and how to make technology more accessible. Terminologies used across the working groups used specifically by the product and technology was a little bit of a confusion. Who do we mean by user? Who do we mean by readers? All of these terms and including the larger terms of diversity, larger terms of capacity was slightly confusing. And one of the key takeaways with them is that they are going to model out a glossary of terms based on the work that was done earlier by capacity building working group. The resource allocation working group also was able to surface some of the key ideas that would help in developing long-term stability for the Wikimedia movement. The feedback that they received was that people, participants, affiliates, Wikimedians were all interested in talking about resource allocation and they were also interested in talking about building stable structures. And these stable structures were structures that would help us move towards the strategic direction that we have been talking about. And this was not just about one year or single event approach that we can see now. This included addressing the resource allocation working groups conversations, included addressing the need to develop distributed capacity and not only centralized capacity. The working group also explored with the participants in the summit how to obtain resources outside our movement, the way that we imagine the movement as of now. And the working group has also been able to come up with a draft plan until Wikimedia for its activities. The Avenue Streams working group also had a very productive conversation. They were able to identify and build synergy across the working group, identify their next steps. They have also had an outline about the way that they will work together and what would be their methodology towards building the recommendations. Roles and responsibilities working group divided themselves into two smaller groups. One group was working on a design of the next steps until Wikimedia and towards recommendations. And the other group was talking to participants was talking to affiliates and gathering their feedback on the scoping documents and the larger questions of the governance of the roles and responsibilities across the movement. The other thing that they were able to do was to develop a framework for describing and evaluating potential on alternative governance models. They have probed into different parameters like conflict, adaptability, responsiveness, fragility, centralization and all of these things. And they are developing governance models around this and they are also in touch with other working groups so that they can also contribute to this. Next slide please. So, from the end of the organizers what we wanted to do during the Wikimedia Summit was to do three things, was to reconnect, re-energize and to plan. So the first day we call it as the downloading where we reconnected with the people reconnected with the strategy process, identify what was done until this point of time, identify the next steps of how to collaborate together. There were two tracks, one was the working group time along with the chapters and the other one was the chapters themselves took certain issues. I'm not in the capacity, I do not have capacity to speak about conversations that happen with chapters as the primary focus. So the working groups had the time they were really eager to talk to the working group members, identify where synergies were, what were the overlapping themes and how best to operate those things. Next slide please. Once they had identified synergy, once they had identified the best way to talk to the working group members, both amongst their working group and the other working groups, they spoke about what was the necessity to change some of the movement structures that we have. This was not only a conversation with roles and responsibilities, but across the working groups. And at the end of the day, there was also a progress check-in across the working groups, which allowed us, which gave us a good sense of that we are moving forward and we are not stuck or we are not using the energy, the tempo that was so well available in the Wikimedia Summit. Also, the second day was the Wikimedia Summit party, which was really, really fun. Next slide please. The last day we call it uploading and what essentially happened in the uploading day was we identify what are our next steps, how to move forward. Now that we have identified what are going to be our best ways to collaborate, what are our areas of, what are going to be pain points, what are going to be at least a draft vision of the support that needs to be given to the working group members. And then we spoke about what is going to happen next. We identified some of the overlapping themes, we identified the liaison model across the working groups, who is going to talk to which working group, how can these conversations go ahead. And the most important thing according to me on the day three was some of the observations that were made by key listeners. We had three key listeners, Emna Misori, Sunil Ebrahim and Ryan Merkley. I'm just going to take another minute to explain or to paraphrase what they said. Emna drew parallels between the chaos in the Arab countries and the one in the movement strategy process at this point of time. But she said that this tension was a good tension, that this tension was the tension between the diversity of a movement and some of the problems and the challenges that we are facing. And she urged and reiterated the fact that it is by constantly asking these questions, going forward in this direction that we would be able to contribute to the future of our movement. Sunil Ebrahim, who was also one of the key listeners, said that what was one of the most amazing things about our movement, the Wikimedia movement in this case was the financial capacity of our movement and how important role it can play in saving other open access movements. He also recommended to the strategy team and to the working group members that one should focus on developing processes that will solve problems systematically. Another suggestion that came out of Sunil was to close the loop in the community consultation process to prevent frustration and offering explanations as to why some of those reflections or suggestions had not been taken into account or rejected. Ryan Murkley was also one of the key listeners during the Wikimedia Summit and Ryan described this entire movement strategy process as an act of leadership and ambition, as a hopeful act of leadership and ambition. What was really interesting was the way Ryan described this part of the strategy process, that this is the dark middle act. And one of the things that stayed with me and resonated with many of the working group members and the participants of the Wikimedia Summit was that he said that doing strategy is going to make us feel sad. It is going to make us feel sad because we will be doing prioritization and prioritization means that we are choosing between two valid and perfectly worthy ideas. And this is the message that we are trying to take to the working groups and take to the broader movement that this is about prioritization of what would make our movement stronger, what would make our movement more stable and what would make our movement much more ready to face challenges of the future. Next slide please. So all of the things that I have spoken, I have spoken wearing the hat of the movement strategy, member of the core team of the movement strategy process but the Wikimedia Summit was as much of the working group members. In fact, it was more of an affiliate conference and Edgar, who's the national coordinator of the Wikimedians of Ecuador was also a very active participant of the movement strategy. And I would like to invite him to speak about what was his experience of the Wikimedia Summit? How did he find the Wikimedia Summit? There are certain key questions that he's trying to answer. So Edgar, over to you. Thanks, Tambir. And good morning to everyone who's listening to me right now. Well, as Tambir said, I am the national coordinator for Wikimedia de Ecuador. We are a Latin American user group that has been developing in a fast pace. And some of the recommendations that I gave into the discussions of the Wikimedia Summit are some of what I am trying to tell you in this meeting. So if we can move to the next slide, please. Some of these questions I found really interesting because in the first place about my interaction with working groups, I come from Iberacup, which is the Latin American regional structure for our movement. And as a member of Iberacup, I found it useful to talk to the members of the working groups who also belong to Iberacup because at least I think we have at least one member for each working group that's moving the discussion forward in our movement, in our regional instance. So my interaction was mainly through them to get to know the working groups, how the working groups are developing the discussions. And also I got to meet other members through them and talk and try to exchange not only information but also the views that Wikimedia de Ecuador had on some of the topics that were being discussed. And also I had the chance to be heard by people who belong to the working groups and get their feedback. But not only through the summit, but in the way that I could use this feedback from people in my own language that became really useful in the last minute to have a clear vision of how we could participate in the movement strategy process. So also what feedback I gave, I provided to the working groups and the core team was that mainly we were really interested in the roles and responsibilities topics. So my main goal during the summit was to provide feedback to that group on what we have been doing as a user group in our own context because I understand that not all of the user groups in our movement are developing in the same phase or have the same, we could say privileges on what we could do and we could not do. For example, one of the things that I said was that the way that affiliates our structure right now is not clear beginning with the moment where they join the movement. There is no welcoming or onboarding process that could support them to grow and solve conflicts in the best way possible. And something that could help solve this problem is that maybe the regional instances of our movement such as CEE or Iberacup or other regional groups could actually try to help not only the user groups that are focused on territorial or on a territory or a thematic topic to develop faster and also that there is no clear rules at least in the Latin American context on what this process could be. And I guess that could be some of the things that we share with other user groups. Also, I talked about how the actual process of how affiliates grow isn't really clear because user groups can grow as fast as their circle instances develop in their own country. For example, it took four years for Wikimedistas Ecuador to actually have a good number of volunteers that could help support the projects that we have. But at the same time, just that we have as much volunteers as we could think that we need, there is also a lot of people, a lot of institutions that would want to work with us. So it could grow to a really fast pace but not for every affiliate. So even in that way, user groups could end working in the same way that a chapter does right now without the same benefits. So one of the responsibilities for the foundation should be provide support for the affiliates who have been working hard and also that now other institutions want to work with a signed agreement or something that an affiliate cannot do on their own. So it could be also helpful if the foundation comes and helps and provide support to these affiliates. Also the integration between affiliates should be made clearer because not only the Wikimedia Summit or Wikimania should integrate more perspectives taking into consideration that each affiliate has now more diversity than ever. And also it is a responsibility for the affiliates to seek for diversity in the whole meaning of what this word means. Because if there is something that needs to be done with the communities that have been segregated for ages in the process of constructing knowledge that is to integrate them into this new process if we want to work on what being the central infrastructure for knowledge. Could we please go to the next slide? Now some of the learnings that I gather from these Wikimedia Summit was that no affiliate is incapable of bringing something to the table. Two years ago when we started talking about this whole process because my working group because my user group wasn't developed as it is right now I thought that we couldn't participate in these discussions because it could be kind of overwhelming and also that we weren't ready for that kind of discussions. But in the way I personally really felt that we could have been growing faster if we actually realized that these topics aren't as far as we thought they were. I learned that through other affiliate experiences on how to grow and build capacity in my own country that I could also have something to offer from my perspective and what is wrong, what is good and potentially can be helpful for others that have been struggling with the same issues that they had to deal with while working in Ecuador and pushing and moving our mission forward. So I learned that every single experience counts and that now it's time for all of this and that because this could help us build what we need in the future from not only the Wikimedia movement but also what we need from ourselves from the affiliates to actually move our mission further and then finally reach our goals. Also the next steps for Wikimedia staff is participating in this process. We actually scheduled a virtual meeting for Wikimedia staff Ecuador to talk about what we have learned in this summit. So I shared with them the experiences that I heard about in the Wikimedia Summit related to this process and got some feedback on what we need to do next. For example, right now we are trying to work with our indigenous communities in our countries because we just came from a successful project in where we learned a lot of how to integrate indigenous communities in Ecuador to this knowledge into working with Wikipedia and not only with Wikipedia but also with some other instances where they actually bring their knowledge to the digital ways. So that's one of our main points right now to try to gather them to have a meeting and we are also working with our community liaisons and I am myself the community liaison for Wikimedia staff Ecuador. So we're working close to have this meeting in two weeks to try to gather their thoughts and also their experiences on what it means to build knowledge from their own point of view so that we could have more diversity in our conversations. And so I guess that that could be all if we go to the next slide I guess because I am kind of done right now. So thanks for listening to me. I guess Tambir will come back with the conversation. Yeah, thank you so much Edgar. What to expect next from us is that the community conversations have been ongoing. There have been the scoping documents that have been shared on meta. Please provide feedback. The analysis of scope with the community conversation is an activity that's already started. The working group members would start very soon to draft and to build recommendations. We would need your support on that note. So please help us with that as well. Next slide please. Just wanted to say thank you if there are any questions, please feel free to reach out to any one of us. I have my email address here and also Carlos we would be able to, we would be happy to receive questions or to incorporate suggestions that are given. Thank you very much for your patience. Thank you very much for the time. Thank you. You can clap. It's okay. It's a bizarre momentary hesitation of everyone looking at each other like is it okay to clap? Yeah, you're allowed to clap. It's all good. So now we're gonna try this little experimental activity. And as a reminder, in case it's too complicated, I'm gonna explain it one more time just in case. So this is your opportunity either here in the room or via IRC. If you have email that I've got those, if you wanted to email now it's too late because I'm already standing up here and I've pulled out the email, so sorry about that. But for everybody else, you will share one to two activities you are working on and are excited about. And again, it could just be, I am working on getting our, I don't know, dogs to the moon. And I'm super excited about that. And then two to three things that other people are working on. Joe's working on getting hamsters to Pluto. I think that's pretty awesome. And the advancement team is working on getting cats to Mars. So I think in total, we've got really great animal outreach space coverage. So it can be as simple as that. So that's kind of what we're going for here. You can elaborate a little bit more. You can offer some teasers. That's all great. For the questions and discussion part, people are welcome to ask questions there. Although again, these aren't like in-depth things. So the questions should hopefully be more along the lines of where do I get more information about that? So if you have in-depth questions, let us know and we'll try to answer those later. So with that explanation, is there anyone in the room who would like to start? Otherwise, I've got some via email. And we also have our magnificent mic carrier. So we have a mic that can be brought over to you if you would like. Always have a little jump into the emails. We'll start with an email one. That way the folks in the room can kind of ease into this. So Jan is excited about trying to understand what we need to give our volunteer translation better tools, documentation and communication tools, and also the tech news project. And what others are working on, I'm really, really happy to see the reference previews Wikimedia Deutschland is working on. And also looking forward to what everyone communities, Wikimedia and Foundation staff will do with Wikimedia in Stockholm. So that's when to get us started. If you don't think I will stand up here silently for 10 minutes with none of you saying anything, you have wrongly judged your host. I could read one from RSC maybe. Wonderful. We have two. So Sam Walton working on Retraction Bot. I don't, that's the thing, because I'm just reading them out, I don't know fully what they are. But you can find more about that on the English Wikipedia. And there's also Jake Orlewitz doing his One Lib One Ref campaign at oneliboneref.org for more information on that. Hello, hey, I'm Marshall. I work on the growth team of the WMF and I'm excited because our team is going to be releasing a project called the Newcomer homepage next week. And it's gonna be in our target Wikis that we test projects in, which are Czech, Korean and Vietnamese right now. And this is a feature to help newcomers get oriented on the Wiki, figure out how to get started with editing. So we're hoping that that is successful and that we can move it to other Wikis afterward. And something that others are working on that I'm excited about is Hackathon next month. Those of us that are attending got a really great email today explaining how to sign up for sessions and how to figure out what to do with Hackathon. And so it seems really well organized and I think will be great. Wonderful. We have another one from the room and then I've got one more in email. I will give one. I'm super excited about the design improvements being made on the foundation website that'll be rolling out soon. And projects others are working on. I'm very excited about the brand project and I'm super excited to see, I don't know if you saw, but recently on Commons, you can now add instances in the photos and that is super, super awesome. I was playing around with that this week. So I'm excited about where that's going. Yeah, structured data on Commons team. I can tell you're all itching. People on YouTube, this is exciting moment for them, yeah. Hello, I'm Neil Patel Quinn. I'm on the product analytics team at the WMF. We do data analysis or data science if we're feeling particularly pompous. We have been working on trying to improve some of the core metrics that we use to understand the overall health of the movement. So things like the number of active editors across all our projects, the number of page views, retention of new editors. So we've been revisiting some of those definitions and trying to make them better at measuring the actual things and the reality of the community that they're trying to measure. I'm excited about the work that the trust and safety team is doing working on measurements for community health. And I'm also excited about the work that the communications team is doing proposing an ambitious rebranding. I know it's a bit controversial and we'll see what happens with it, but I'm glad that they've made the proposal and kicked off a very interesting and deep conversation. Okay, suddenly everyone online realized the email option existed. So we're starting to get more of an email randomly. Okay, which is great. If you'd still like to send them, I'm apparently still getting pings. So one that we've got from Philippe is they're excited about cascading content on the Wikipedia's. They were talking about it's a super efficient way to organize and reuse content. It is mainly in use on Spanish Wikipedia right now, but there is information about it on English Wikipedia and other language Wikipedia's. So very awesome. Some of these are long, so I'm trying to describe them down. Okay, another one we've got is from Melissa who we launched wiki blind two days ago as a new international user group for blind, visually impaired and allies. We are designing innovative and radically inclusive training programs for all ages, abilities and cultures, wiki wonderland and wiki Ninos. Very, very grateful for all the work that everyone here does. Wiki Summit was amazing, gave them and us their group rocket fuel and so many people wanted to be a part of the movement as soon as possible. Newcomer orientation sounds great. Some great feedback there. I will stare at you all. I'll even start calling him. No, I won't do that, that's kind of me. I might, but we've got one other one in email and then I just stare at all of you until we get two more people in the room. So just be aware we're going with at least two more of you. Oh, great. Go ahead, Joe. So yeah, I'm gonna raise two things my team is working on. We just launched pretty recently the friendly space policy consultation for 2019 on meta. So if you type in friendly space policy consultation 2019 you'll find it, which is looking to sort of make potential changes to the friendly space policy and working out what it currently does well and what it needs to improve. So if you can help out with your experiences there that'd be fantastic. I also wanted to call out our work on the user reporting system and the anti-arrestment tools teams work on the user reporting system, which is sort of aiming to provide a reporting system for communities that makes reporting things less stressful for users and generating higher quality reports that can be action more easily for harassment related purposes. All right, get one other one via email and then again we're gonna wait for silence until we get two more in the room. So we've got one from ad who's, let's see excited about the ongoing affiliate selection board process and a special thanks to Erica and Kim for working on that. Also excited about the talk page consultation, which they worked on with Dutch Wikipedia and excited about the talk about the working groups for the 2030 strategy process and also the Wikimedia L discussion around Wiki News and finally congrats to Wikimedia Korea. Yeah, so I'm excited about the work that our editing team is doing on improving mobile and there's two things you might have experienced if you have used the mobile visual editor recently. One, there's a kind of a smoother transition between reading and editing and then we've also released section editing, the idea being that you can better relate your reading experience to the editing experience because you can find that snippet of text that you were trying to affect while you were reading inside the editor and we're gonna be continuing with that work this next quarter. Most exciting, I think, are gonna be introducing new kind of mobile edit cards to help better structure the edit flow for a context that's more constrained in space and time and also working on the toolbar to give people a better sense of orientation within the document and the flow of their edits. That's it. All right. I have one more from IRC. If you bear with me while I put this back in here. Oh, how do I do this? Okay. Delphine excited about the amount of work to make programs in community engagement department special for years to come and the shifts that they bring, the ideas around working much more and better with the Wikimedia affiliates. All right, one more from the room. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, go ahead. Yeah, please. I think that I personally have been inspired and excited about all the work that the growth team is doing in being really intentional about how we welcome and I don't think assimilates the right word. But on board people to the movement, both in a technical way, but also socially. That's it. Anyone else in the room? By which I mean, there we go. Wonderful. See, you were all saved from having to sit here for 15 more minutes and staring at me. Okay, like that. So I would like to say that it was very exciting working with product analytics on going through questions that they would like to ask during interview for the QA data analyst. It was totally different area for me and it was interesting and challenging to see what should be asked and just to be an interview. So that was exciting for me and you. Awesome, thank you. Was there any other ones? This is the 10 second hold. Anyone else on IRC? I think we've gone through all the emails. Let me do one more check. Yep, we seem to be good. All right, well, thank you all for participating in that little experiment. I hope you enjoyed it. I found it informational for myself. You've seen us do some experiments in this meeting in the past. We may do them again. We always appreciate you cooperating with us as we try something out and see how it goes and then take notes back and maybe try it again again in the future. So, with that, let's move on to questions and discussion. Are there any questions or discussion? I don't think so. Stragi did a great job being very thorough so I think they covered everything super well. Do a pause. Lincoln seems to be nervous about your silence so you may hear him squirming over here. All right, and with that, we will move on to a reminder to submit your ideas. Again, you can go to Metawiki, Wikimedia, monthly activities meetings slash sign up or if you just search for monthly activities meeting, you'll eventually find it. So please go there if you'd like to sign up and give a future three minutes to 10 minute presentation. With that, we'll move on to Wiki Love Live, which I know feels a little bit like the last experiment we did so I recognize that but I actually have a real Wiki Love that came in via email which was truly marked as Wiki Love. It wasn't a like, hey, I think this is for the other thing. They really said for Wiki Love. So I'm gonna read that. Well, if anyone else thinks of a Wiki Love they'd like to offer, great. So this is from Erica. Hi, everyone. As you may know, there's an ongoing process for affiliates to select the next two board members by Wikimedia. If you do know about it, it's highly likely that you've been volunteered to support this process in a way or in another at some point and you deserve a lot of kudos for that. Today's shout out though goes to our amazing community of volunteer translators. It's all bold, italics is like all the emphasis you can give on that who have been taking good care of selection related pages promptly since the first call for translations making it easier for affiliates to grasp the process and to be able to discuss the candidates so far. Thank you. I owe you so much ice cream. Wow, apparently they're getting ice cream. Please feel free to mention this whenever our pass cross. She's legitimately going to buy these people ice cream. I'm really impressed. All right, anyone can join this brilliant squad. Search for translation central on Metawiki and you'll land on a centralized page that will help you figure out at a glance what's left to translate for this year. Again, it's been a pleasure to support the processes like this when one sees proactively and willingness in volunteers to help. It really reminds us why we do what we do. All the best from Erika community relations team. It looks like we've got some wiki love here. Hello. So I would like to give some appreciation to Afro Thunder 30770 aka Eddie J. Carswell. This is a, I believe is a editor on the English Wikipedia. He made a request for some analysis to the product analytics team last year about how the portal, how portals on the English Wikipedia are used. It was a very well thought out request. We decided as an experiment, we mostly will do analysis for other teams in the Wikimedia Foundation, but we didn't experiment to try to help a community member. It didn't work out very well. I would say we didn't do a great job of it, but Afro Thunder was very understanding. And so many appreciations for that. I have wiki love from RC. We have wiki love for the Wikimedia Deutschland technical wishes team, who are constantly, consistently, sorry, developing features that I like, I being pine, and that are applicable to multiple wikis. So they want to thank them for their good work. And we have, we also have wiki love from Tanvir on the Google Meet for Robert. I'm guessing Robert Miller, our fantastic front office and facilitator. He's been with us for a very long time, so. And sadly, for context, in case you don't know, Robert is departing the staff and is moving across country. So we are very, very sad. Robert has been here for a very, very long time. He's an amazing part of the organization. So much wiki love to Robert from all of us. Oh, I think he's standing around the corner. Okay, yeah, round of applause. Yeah. Any other? I've got wiki love. I wanted to offer to the legal security and OIT group for a policy they're working on internally around use of equipment and things like that. It's a super complicated process. It's very intense. It's very heated and passionate discussion. So I really appreciate the thought that they're putting into it and how important that is. And so really like that they're doing that and appreciate how well they're handling everything. Anything else? All right. I'll give one, I'll give one, sorry to jump in. I asked my team if they had anything. They wanted to thank the admins who are willing to try other partial blocks feature which just launched on a bunch of wikis recently and who worked with their communities to sort of find new use cases for that and documenting their approach. And just overall being very helpful with how that sort of rolled out and how that's been a pretty successful launch for that particular feature. So thanks for that. Hello. Yes, I'd like to give wiki love to a lot of the designers on audiences who over the past week have kind of worked very hard with very little context to create a lot of vision art that's been helpful to communicate both to us internally and other teams. And I think one of the things that's come with that is a lot of people reacting to what they put out knowing that it's just concept art. And I think that takes a lot of vulnerability to tolerate that level of critique. So nice. Thank you designers. Anyone else? All right, so with that, give everyone a round of applause. And Lincoln has always wants to challenge you to give at least two pieces of wiki love to someone else this week. It's always a great way to show your appreciation. So do that either in person, online, via email, whatever works for you. But that's Lincoln's challenge for you. So with that, give yourselves a round of applause. Wow, okay, let's try that again because that was a pretty like, okay, I know it's morning, but let's try it again. Give yourselves a round of applause. There you go. Thank you in upscale. Okay, so with that, thank you all very much for attending this month's metrics meeting. We'll see you all next month. Thank you all.


So, the idea that memory is stored in the brain, the persistent physical changes, goes back to Plato. But the modern formulation of this hypothesis had to wait until the turn of the 20th century when Richard Zimmer coined the word engrams for these persistent changes. We have now identified a population of brain cells that hold specific memory. Not only that, we can now engineer these cells with light so that animals, memories, emotions, and even thoughts can be manipulated. So this is the idea that has existed only in the realm of science fiction until recently. When you encounter episodes, a population of cells deep inside your brain fires. And then this will be followed by persistent changes in these cells. You can recall this memory only when external stimuli will reactivate these cells. So these hypotheses have now been proven to be correct by using a technology called optogenetics. The key molecule of the optogenetics is a light-sensitive protein called chanelodopsin which is extracted from green algae. Scientists can insert chanelodopsin into memory cells. Subsequently, scientists can even activate these cells with a blue light which is delivered deep inside the brain with optic fibers. Now memory is usually quite reliable, but under certain conditions humans make incredible false memory. For instance, after arresting John Doe I or Timothy McVeigh following the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, some of you may remember, the testimony based on the false memory caused nationwide manhunt for the second John Doe II who never existed. We can implant false memory in the brain of mouse. For that purpose you let the mouse stay in the blue box and let the mouse form the memory of the blue box and then you can label these cells with the chanelodopsin. Subsequently, when the same mouse receives the mild foot shock in the red box which is very different from a blue box, at the same time the animal is forced to recall the memory of a blue box, then if you let the animal return to the blue box, they will be scared. Now, this is the demonstration of formation of false memory because this mouse has never been shocked in the blue box. Depression is a terrible brain disorder which afflicts 350 million people worldwide. Depression is often caused by chronic stress which precipitates cities of negative memories. Now we know now that the negative and the positive memory compete each other in the brain network. Using this principle, we have recently made very exciting discovery that is to cure depression with optogenetic technology. For this purpose, male mouse form pleasure memory by playing with female mouse and then subjected to chronic stress treatment and fall into depression. We could cure the depression of this male mouse by activating the positive memory in the cell with light. This can also cure the memory problem of mouse which is an early stage of Alzheimer's disease. This mouse can form memory but cannot retrieve the memory. But we could restore the memory recall of this mouse by using optogenetic technology. So optogenetics has demonstrated proof of concept for a variety of diseases and for possible therapy. The big question is now can we convert or translate these findings made with animal models into therapy for human patients?


The purpose of this study was to determine whether a mini-clinical evaluation exercise, Cx, assessment could improve the clinical skills of nurse anesthesia students at Awaz Jundishaper University of Medical Sciences, Awaz, Iran. The study began on November 1, 2022 and concluded on December 1, 2022. A total of 50 nurse anesthesia students were divided into two groups, one group received traditional supervision and a summative evaluation based on a checklist at the end of the course while the other group received mini-Cx assessments four times throughout the course. The results showed that the mini-Cx assessment resulted in higher scores than the traditional approach, indicating that it can be used as a more effective way to evaluate student performance. Additionally, the students reported high levels of satisfaction with the mini-Cx assessment. This article was authored by Ali Khalafi, Yasemin Sharbatar, Nasreen Kajili, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


Hi everyone. Good morning. We will get started now and this is Satish from the Residence Assembly Service and we have here Tatiana from the Residence Assembly Service and Stefano from Orwell Radio who is also recording this event will be later shared with the community. Thank you for joining us and we have Kabilan here who's gonna do the random pick of the selection card actually for us in help of this process. Okay so yeah Tatiana please go ahead and show the names that we have here who have nominated for the selection process review task force. So as you could see we have here 12 names. Yeah Bobby from Siam Balam, Danny from Orwell-Model, Jaya from Sanjay, Martin from Sanredi and Sanjeev from Amir, Daniel from Shreema, Giovanni from Serenity, Zan François from Sharnga, Phillip from Kalpana and Saravanan from Lafam. So yeah please go ahead. Oh sorry I missed out the name Selvaraj from Assyration as well on the left-hand side. So we have 12 names over here. Oh thank you. The cameras are actually hiding it for me. I'm not able to see it. Sorry about that and we have Uma from Svayam as well. So what we're gonna do now is cut these names into 12 pieces and then roll them and put them into the selection box. So we're also showing that list of names to the Orwell Radio recording as well. We're good to go now. Oh yeah. So I'm going to cut first. We have Prabhu from Orwell Financial Service who has been also invited to witness this process, who has just joined us. Thank you Prabhu. So friends yes you can zoom in and look closer. So Tatiana is now cutting all the 12 names into 12 individual pieces that will be rolled and put into the box. It's all a random selection of 7 names from the list of 12 names. Have you loved it? Wait, let's just put all the names together, count them one more time, make sure that every one is there. So we have 12 names cut down into 12 different pieces. So we're going to roll them one by one and we're doing a counting over here. How many was that? 12. Count again. 12. Okay good. So 12 names are there. Let's roll them out. Meanwhile we're also having Rathinam here joining from the Orwell Financial Service as well to witness this process. Thank you for that. You need our help or the guest? Watch. Better to just watch and observe that we are all doing right. I don't want us to take over this after. Don't fold it. It's a very small roll. Roll it and give it to them. All these 12 names rolled out. I'll bring the box. You're going to do the thing over here. I think it's better the lights are better here. So count them inside. So we get the number 12, 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Let's close the box and do a shuffling. That's the magic box. Yes it is. So now Kaby. It's time for everyone. Guys you can see what's going on. Kaby can you please speak? Yes. So we're picking the first name right now and give it to Tatiana. Can we allow you to give it to her? Thank you and I need it of course for some moment. First name, Jaya. Jaya from Sunship. Wait a moment. Friends I need some room here. Please put it here. No just put it on the table itself, it's better to put it on the table where I'm going to give it to you. So the first name is Jaya from Sunship. Okay now let's go for the second one. Okay open it. Take one. Give it to Tatiana. Thank you. So rise from aspiration has been chosen as the second name. Thank you. And give it to Tatiana. The third name is Spillip from Kalpana. Take one. Open it, put it down. Martin. Martin from Sunrithi. Martin from Sunrithi in the wood. Martin in the wood. Come here then you can see better. So we have drawn four names so far. Jaya from Sunship, Salvaraj from aspiration, Pilip from Kalpana and Martin in the wood from Sunrithi. The fifth name right now is Sunjeeva from Meru community. We have Sunjeeva from Sanjeeva. Oh Sanjeeva, how are you? So that was the key member of the selection process we've done so far. This is for Alex playing. I'm taking the sixth name right now. This is Saravanan from Lafam. Put some PDC. Yeah. So we have taken six names at this point of time. So the last one. John Brasla from Sharangah. So yeah, we have seven names now that will compose this selection process review task force for our working group selection procedure. And the seven names are repeating it once again. We have Jaya from Sunship, Salvaraj from aspiration, Martin in the wood from Sunrithi, Pilip from Kalpana, Saravanan from Lafam, Sanjeeva from Meru and John Brasla from Sharangah community. So these are the seven numbers that are going to review the selection process procedure. And we will be announcing this out to the community and further steps to proceed. Yes, so we need also to open the other sleeves just to make sure that there is no mistake. What we're going to do right now is to show you the remaining slips from the box to make sure that there are no duplicates. So as you could see the Giovanni from Serenity who was not selected. Oma from Swayam was also not picked up through the random process. Oma, okay. Let's know. And we have Bobby from S.A.M. Ballum who was also not picked on the random selection procedure. And then we have Danny from our model who was also not picked. Daniel from Srema. So as you could see how many do we have there? One, two, three, four, five. So seven has been selected and five were not selected through the drawing of Lot's process. And it makes it to 12 in total which tallies the number. Yeah, I think that's all we have for today. Thank you for joining us. Yeah, thank you for joining us and we will be sending an update to the community with this result of the selection process. And also there will be a first meeting that will be held up with the selection process review task force this Friday. Which is the mandatory meeting along with the facilitator. We are aware it's a short notice but we would like to see how much it is possible. And this will be communicated to all these seven selected members as well. Thank you for joining us and have a great day. Thank you.


Well, I thank you all very much for listening and sorry for your show everyone, I could have listened to you all day. Thank you very, very much indeed. Our host, Mama, the Archbishop of the Church of God Bishop of the National Archbishop Madra Benson, is a hostess. I had called you out of protocol because I think that you deserve very very much for some money from today. Mama was very very grateful that the money that was received this year. Your services to the Governor of the Church of God, the Governor of the Church of God, and the year of the President of the Church of God, those people in the government are very sensitive about our needs and suffering. And it's not just about how people get their things. I am the owner of the Church of God, the Archbishop of the National Archbishop of God, and Master Chris of the Archologian. Rather than just a distinguished guest, ladies and gentlemen, it is such a privilege for me to be here. I'm excited to participate in all these rounds and I want so many who have worked with me and who have lived with the great and perhaps the greatest contemporary African Apostle of our faith, Bishop Benjamin the Dalitian. It is already 50 years since the institution of the Church of Revelation in Nigeria. It is 20 years since the consecration of her grace and Bishop Margaret Denson in Jerusalem. 50 years of millions of souls in sin. 50 years of miracles, signs and wonders. 50 years of the establishment of thousands of church worldwide. 50 years of incredible conquests for the Kingdom of God. We now have the blessing of the Hossa University, the world of faith group of students, the all nations of Christ Institute, from Wales has arisen several thousands of global leaders and ministers. It is also 75 years of the life of God's chosen helpmate for the great man of God, the one who God prepared to carry out the great work across the world as Bishop Margaret Denson in the Hossa. The spirit of God and the grace of God upon the man of God as Bishop Denson the Hossa, which caused him to shout in miracle causing faith that if I am truly a man of God and let fire fall, those words resonated on today. His life and his times was a game changer in the trajectory of the gospel of Jesus Christ in Africa and indeed the world. And we see today the children, we see today so many of his children in the faith, children in the gospel, men and women who themselves have become fathers and mothers in the faith. Indeed, looking today at his own children, his borrowed children, it is obvious that the word of God remains true in Deuteronomy 7 verse 9 that therefore know that the Lord your God he is God. He is a God who keeps covenant and mess for a thousand generations with those who love him and keep his commandments. He has kept covenant with you and he will keep covenant with you indeed for a thousand generations yet to come in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus.   Scripture says in Psalm 24 verse 1 and 2 that the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell in it, for it has founded it upon the seeds and it has established it upon the waters. God is the author of life and the world and he remains interested, he remains committed to the destiny of nations. All of the history of the Church through all of the times God has shown that it is the Church, it is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ that he has given direction to directly affairs of nations. And I just want to repeat that, that God has shown through the years, through the history of the Church, that it is through the Church, it is through the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ that he has given the direction to lead nations, to lead our nation and to lead the nations all over the world. How so? God himself gave us the commission, the great commission, Matthew 28 verse 18 to 20, where he says that all power has been given to me in heaven and on earth and he says to all of us, go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe the things were for our commandment and law and wisdom until the end of the age. God himself commissioned us to go out and disciple the nations, to preach the gospel, not just to preach the gospel but to teach the nations of the world including our nation, to observe the things that we have been taught, to observe the principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ. In Genesis 1 verse 28, we have been given the fivefold mandate, the scripture says that God blessed them and God said to them, be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth, have dominion over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves on the earth. Clearly God himself had given us the mandate to be fruitful, to multiply, to have dominion over the earth, to replenish this earth with our title, to replenish this earth with the vision that he has given us. God called the church and God mandated the church to do the various things and we have not subdued a nation, we have not subdued the nation until the principles, the values and the virtues of the kingdom of God have been accepted as a normal way of life in society. That is what it means, that is what it means to go and teach and to teach them to observe all of the things that he has commanded us. He has equipped us spiritually, the Almighty God has equipped us spiritually. He has told us in Matthew 5 verse 30 and 14 that we are the souls of the earth, that we are the light of the world. He has given us the mandate, he has equipped us and he has told us who we are, that we represent the light in this world, represent the light in our nation, represent the souls in this nation. We are the ones that must make the difference in this nation. In Romans 8 verse 19 it is we are told that the honest expectation of the creation eagerly awaits the revealing of the sons of God, that the honest expectation of all creation, including the creation that is located here in our nation, eagerly awaits the revealing of the sons of God. Our revealing, the revealing of those of us who are here, the children of God is eagerly awaited by the rot and corruption of society. Our revealing is awaited by everything that has gone wrong. Our revealing, our impact is awaited in everything that has happened all around us. The word of God tells us that the church has the majesty of place in determining the future of nations. The church has the majesty of place. The scripture tells us in 1 Timothy 3 verse 15, it says that if I am delayed, and this is Paul speaking, if I am delayed I write so that you may know and that you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God which is the pillar and the ground of truth. So this house of God, this place that is called the church, these people that are called the church represent the pillar and the ground of truth. And it's not just some feeble truth, this is the everlasting truth. This is the truth upon which the world was built. This is the truth upon which the world's foundations were laid. So the church is the pillar and it is the ground of truth. It is the business of the church to make rulings. It is the business of the church to make rulings, to determine what should happen, to determine what should be said and what should not be said. It is the business of the church to determine the fashions of the time, to determine what will hold and what will not hold. That is what is meant by being the pillar and the foundation of truth. We cannot shy away from that very important responsibility. Every time we must recognise, and I will go very quickly through this, we must recognise that it is the pulpit that has defined the trajectory of the development of nations in practically all over the world. What is preached and the pulpit, what is said and the pulpit has determined the trajectory of the world almost without fail. Alex de Tocqueville is a French philosopher who was not even at the time a Christian and he wrote in 1830 when he saw the incredible movement, especially of the development of the United States of America, he went to the United States himself and in his book Liberty he wrote. He said, I looked everywhere for the reason, for the development, for the reason for the great advancement of this country called America. So I looked everywhere. I looked in their big canals, their big carpets, their railways, their perfect buildings and I did not find the answer to the reason for the greatness of his nation. Until I went to their churches and I heard what was being preached, I heard what was being spoken on the pulpit and when I heard what was being spoken on the pulpit I knew the reason why this function is great. It is the pulpit that determines the greatness of nations, it depends on what is being preached on the pulpit. Whatever is being preached on the pulpit will prevail whether we preach right or wrong, it will still prevail and that is the problem. Whatever is being preached on the pulpit, if we preach that people will become wealthy by sudden miracles, by sudden flight, without hard work, so if we preach that it will be lined by life and pristened by pristened, by righteousness, by integrity so it will be and so our nation will be, it is the pulpit that has always defined the trajectory of nations. Let me say that the protestant reformation and many of us who are students of history know exactly what the protestant reformation was about but just to very quickly and very roughly define it. This was the change in Christianity, this was the dramatic change in Christianity when faith was recognized as the basis when the faith in the Lord Jesus Christ was recognized as the basis for the Gospel of Jesus Christ, our belief in the Gospel of Jesus Christ was recognized. The protestant reformation for those who have read some of the history is often said to have given birth to the industrial revolution and when you read the works of people like Ashton and Weber and several other great political economists and historians, you will find that they justify this by so many examples that indeed the industrial revolution which as you know, led to the creation of the great economies of the world and led to the creation of many of the sound economic principles that have led to the growth and development of the world. There was a direct product of the protestant reformation. So many say and many will agree that it is the principles of the Gospel of Jesus Christ that were responsible for the dramatic transformation first of the economies of Europe and America and then Japan and the rest of Asia. Let me tell you a quick story. The puritans in Europe and in America by strictly complying with the principles of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and I will explain very quickly how, by strictly complying with the principles of the Gospel were able to affect their economies, they were able to affect their societies, they affected education, they affected the arts, they affected commerce, they affected practically every aspect of life. They changed and dramatically defined every aspect of life in their societies. Indeed there are some who have heard of what is called the Iwakura mission and I'm sure that we can google this up and find it. They just spelled as it pronounced the Iwakura mission. This was a mission sent by the Japanese Emperor led by a man called Iwakura. The Japanese Emperor in 1877 discovered that Europe and America had moved so quickly ahead of Japan. Japan, one of the very ancient civilization itself, even at that time, a technology giant, was suddenly discovered that Europe and America had moved along very quickly and had overtaken it. The end process sent to both Europe and America found in a two month period that mission that is called the Iwakura mission to study, to look at what exactly it was that had made this nation go so far ahead. They discovered of course that there were the sound principles, many of the principles and we'll look at a few of them very quickly. Many of these principles are the principles of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. No one copies like the Japanese. They copied those principles. They taught those principles in their primary schools and in their schools and they transformed their own economies. It was only after that that China copied Japan. China, of course, another ancient civilization, five centuries ahead, even in terms of civilization, ahead of Europe and America, but suddenly found itself someday in growth. It had to wait until the revelation of the sons of God in Europe and America before it began to kick off again. So there is no question at all that it is the principles of the Gospel of Jesus Christ that has transformed nations. There is no nation in the world, whether it is a Christian nation, whether it is a Muslim nation or even those who say they do not believe in God. Every one of them must observe the principles of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and we'll look at some of those principles as I said. Everyone must. There is no other way out of development. So the truth of the matter is that whether a person accepts Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, I want you to listen to me carefully. If you accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, you will without a doubt inherit eternal life. That is the promise of the Gospel. That is the reason for our salvation. That is how come we are hopeful, how come we are so full of hope and earnest expectation that soon enough we will indeed see God in glory. For let me point out that there are those countries of the world that do not even accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, but they accept the principles and they practice the principles. They practice some of the principles that we are going to talk about. And when they practice those principles, the principles still work. The question of going to heaven, the question of eternal life is a separate matter. The question of observance of principles is another matter entirely. And that is why it is that no matter the country of the world, if you practice the principles, you will get the results. And that has been the story of countries as diverse as Europe, as countries in Europe, as countries in America, as the countries of the Americas and the countries even in the Middle East and many of the other countries of the world. Well let me just say that what are these principles? Let us very quickly look at some of these principles. What are these principles? The first principle is the principle of righteousness. The scripture says in Proverbs 14 verse 34 that righteousness exalts a nation. What is seen is the reproach to any people. The word of God says also in Matthew 5 verse 37, it says, let your yes be yes and your no be no. Be a person of integrity. Let integrity be the predominant principle in our existence and in our lives. Integrity, righteousness is what exalts a nation. That is what exalts a person and that is what exalts a people as well. Any nation that works out righteousness, that works out integrity, that values trustworthiness, that values compliance with truth, with honesty, with the great without a doubt. There are questions around just talking again still about integrity and all of that. Respect for credit and obligation. They know the countries of the world develop their economic systems, especially their credit systems around the principle that it is the weekend who borrows and does not repay. Psalm 57 verse 21, at the weekend borrows and does not repay. It's a principle of integrity. So when a person borrows money from an institution and many of the Christian communities, especially the early Christian communities, lent each other money and they repaid on the pain of death because they strongly believed that it is the weekend that borrows and does not repay. They prospered because of that principle of integrity. They were able to lend money and give back so that they continue to prosper because they did not deplete the pool from where the resources were coming from. That is it. That's the principle of integrity. When we do not observe the principles of integrity, when we do not observe these principles, then the society breaks down. It is impossible for there to be prosperity without respect for the principles of integrity. And so it is that there is no way that a society that enables corruption, there's no way that a society that allows corruption, that celebrates corruption, that refuses to condemn corruption. There's no way such a society can make the kind of progress that society before it was made. That is why it is that from the pulpits, from the pulpits we must preach integrity. From the pulpits we must stand against corruption. From the pulpits we must refuse to accept the situation where unexplained wealth is all around us. Well you cannot explain how it is that people have become wealthy. You cannot explain. And there are in our churches people whose wealth cannot be explained. People who pay taxes and loans from stolen wealth. It is impossible for us to be the life of the world. It is impossible for us to be the source of the earth if we do not practice this principle. It is this principle that has made other nations great. The principle of our churches. The principle of integrity. It is this principle that has made it possible for many nations of the world to be great. I remember years ago as a student in Iwa, I was, at the time we used to have found difficulties with paying fees through the central bank. So I was out of, I had not paid my fees and my fees were standing for about six weeks. So I went to the council of the university and explained that I was still owing fees for about six weeks. I wasn't sure when my fees were going to be paid from Nigeria because of the difficulties we had at the time with transferring funds. And he said to me, why don't you go to the bank and ask for your loan? I said, I don't have any money, I don't have any collateral. How am I going to just go to a bank and ask for it? I said, yes. So I went to the bank, the bank in the university itself, and across the counter I spoke to a lady who asked me who I also was, looked at my letter so that I had one or two remittances to my account but I had less than 40 funds, less than the other time. She then asked me when I thought my fees would come. I said, well, I cannot be sure but I expect I would pay the next six weeks or so. How am I going to pay 600 pounds? I said 600 pounds. And right across the counter, to give me the 600 pounds, I signed the document. I did not see a man that I was signed to a group on the other side of the counter. I signed the document and I left and paid my fees. Fortunately, some weeks later, my check came and was paid to the bank. That was in 1981. By 1984, it had become impossible for many people who carried the great passport to open accounts in banks in the United Kingdom. Why? Because the weekend had borne to many cases and I had not prepared. Many who had used credit cards, many had used credit cards, taken credit cards and used the credit card for various purposes and disappeared home. Many have thought that these people are very foolish. How can they allow themselves? And they took it and disappeared. So it became very difficult for many other people there not to borrow money as I had agreed with you. But to even open back accounts, the currency of the world, the currency of commerce, the currency of business is trust. As a currency, it is trust. It is not how right you are, it is not how smart you are, it is trust. If we can be trusted, everything can happen. Business can happen. Credit can be given. If we can be trusted. So the principles are the principles. The principles of hard work, principles of hard work, innovation. There are many who know what is called the Puritanic work ethic. This was the work ethic of those who were called, who like you and I, were believers of all. They were called the Puritans. They had a work ethic. Everybody knew that the Puritans would work regular hours. They would work for the number of hours that they had to work for. They would not speak from the job. They would not steal everything from the job. Everybody knew that they were faithful. They would plan. They would do everything that they were required to do. Everybody knew that. And so the work ethic was made after that. The Puritanic work ethic. Somebody ought to name hard work after us as Christians. Somebody ought to be able to say that this is the way of the born and the given. They are aware that you will find it. You will find the work ethic. You will find that it will work regular hours. You will find that you will be honest. You will find that it can be trusted with business. You will find that it can be entrusted with resources. Many do not know that the first mechanical clubs, not the hour clubs, the mechanical clubs, were first made in Bavaria by Christians in Bavaria. Why did they make the mechanical clubs? Because they worked in factories and they wanted to be sure that for the hours they worked they would be able to pay their taxes. So many of them, if they worked eight hours, they would marry by the mechanical club and take their 10% off it. They were that faithful. They were that faithful. Today, question is whether it is possible to trust something simply because they say I am a believer, simply because they say I am born again. Even if a person says I am a pastor and he be trusted. The truth is that it is these principles of integrity, the principles of trustworthiness, the principles of hard work, innovation, the work ethic that our faith is known by. It is these principles that have made so much of a difference. It is these principles. Look at the principles of time consciousness, time consciousness, like you just believe as one, to everything there is, to everything there is a sin, a time for every purpose under the heavens. These are the principles that have worked elsewhere. Time consciousness, respect for time, respect for savings and investment. These are the principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Respect for the rule of law, Romans 13 verse 1, submit to government that every soul is subject to the government authorities. All of these principles are principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ. That the principles of governance, principles of payment of taxes and dues, all of these are the principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Every nation that has faithfully followed these principles, every community that has faithfully followed these principles has made a difference. Look at the principles around welfare of the poor and the vulnerable. It's a fundamental directive of the gospel of Jesus Christ that we must either as government, as a policy matter or as a matter of social action, the concept about the welfare of the poor and the vulnerable. It is a fundamental principle. Matthew 25 verse 35 to 40. It is a fundamental principle that Jesus Christ himself preached. He said, I was hungry and you gave me food. I was thirsty and you gave me drink.  I was in prison and you visited me. I was sick. All of these principles. These are the principles by which social welfare schemes first in Europe then in America were founded. These are the principles. These are principles of sound, these are sound principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Look at the education, the great influence of Christianity on education, the importance of education, the importance of knowledge. And so, so many of the first schools, many of the schools, even Oxford and Cambridge as you know were founded first by Marx, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, these were universities founded by men and women of God. If you look at the founding acts of Harvard, one of the very important things that sticks out there is where it says all knowledge and wisdom belong to the Lord Jesus Christ. These are the kinds of texts, these are the kinds of things containing those texts. Of course, you've seen perfect examples of that. Today here we now have the density in the Hosa University. These are the great examples of the way in which the gospel of Jesus Christ influences even education and influences everything else. It is these principles that make a difference. The reason why you and I have to be involved in every aspect of our lives is because we are told that we are the salt of the earth, we are the light. What is that light? The light is the principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is that light. So we are supposed to take that light into every aspect of our lives. We are supposed to take it into education, into entertainment, into the arts, into government, into politics, into everything else. We are supposed to take that light into it. We are powerless if we play the same games as those who do not know the gospel of Jesus Christ. We are completely powerless. There is no way by which if our light does not prevail, if we do not bring our light into the government, that there will be a change or that there will be a difference. No, we must have the courage of our convictions to take our light to every aspect of life. But many times one of the things you will find is that many times the gospel is controlling. The principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ can be very controlling and by that they mean that it is usually against our flesh. The gospel and its principles are usually controlling. They are controlling to the way that we feel. And that's why God himself said that look, His ways are not our ways. As high as the heaven is from heaven. So are His ways far from our ways. So are His thoughts from our own thoughts. The principles of the gospel are controlling. And that's why many times we fail to observe them. Look at the principles that say that we have to die to live. How many people want to die to live? John 12, 23 to 25 have to die to live. That there is first a dying. There is a dying to self before we can live. It's a completely controlling being. Everyone wants to just live. Nobody wants to die to live. Nobody wants to make the sacrifice that is required. Look at the principle that says humble yourself so that you'll be exalted. Completely contrary. Different from how we are taught in the world. Asset yourself. Appear big, boast, brag. That's what the world teaches. But the gospel says humble yourself so that you'll be exalted. The gospel says that the greatest of us will be those that are willing to serve. Those that are willing to be slaves. That's what the gospel says. Completely contrary. Completely contrary to everything that you and I know. It says seek Him first the kingdom of God. And His righteousness. And all other things will be added. Seek Him first the kingdom and His righteousness. Then all other things will be added. For many times you find that even in church we are seeking the things. We are seeking the things first. And we are living the righteousness and the kingdom. Because this gospel is completely contrary. It doesn't agree with our flesh. It doesn't agree with the way we want to feel. The scripture says that we should love our enemies.  It says we should pray for them. Those who curse us we should actually bless them. Many times we skip that part of scripture completely. Because it is so contrary. How does anybody love someone who kills his wife or kills his children? How do you love such a person? How do you love someone who, right there in your presence, opens the womb of a woman who is pregnant? How are you supposed to love such a person? But that is the very nature of the gospel that we preach. It is the gospel that challenges us to action. It is the gospel that does not allow us to hide away in our flesh. Because the gospel is not the work of a man. It is not the thoughts of a man. It is the very act of God itself. God himself is the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is God himself at work. So we cannot accord with our own sense of what is right and what is wrong. The gospel says we should not revenge. It says don't revenge at all. Because vengeance is mine. It says that we should not revenge. Sometimes we hear from the prophets. We hear words spoken in anger. We hear words saying that one must revenge. That one must take action. That is not what the gospel says. That is not what it says. There is no way in scripture and there is no way in the history of our field where we have revenge and succeeded. There is no way. The only way that the church has prevailed is by keeping to the gospel. That is the only way the church has prevailed. The church has never prevailed by common sense or by the sense of the word never. The only way it has prevailed is by keeping fidelity to scripture. That is the only way the church has prevailed in all of the history of the church. The word of God says in 2 Chronicles chapter 7 verse 14. It says that if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways.  The scripture says that if we who are called by his name, that is to say those of us who are believers, it says if we pray, if we seek his face, if we repent and we turn back from our wicked ways, it does not say that we should preach, that people should turn back from their wicked ways. No, that is part of it. It says we ourselves first must turn back from our wicked ways before our land can be healed. The responsibility for the building of nations is on the church. The responsibility for showing direction is on the church. The burden is on the church. It says not only must we pray, seek his face, repent, but we must turn from our evil ways. We must turn from our evil ways. If we do not turn from our evil ways then our land cannot be healed. It does not say that our land must turn from its evil ways. It says we who are the church must turn from our evil ways so that our land will be healed. The Lord has placed enormous responsibility on the church because the church is the pillar and foundation of truth, because the church is the source, because the church is the light. The responsibility has been placed upon us, but our yoke is an easy one because it is a yoke that has been given to us by the one who loves us, who loves us unconditionally. Let me say at that yoke, I've asked Bishop Benson at the Housa, at Great Papa, saw the future. He saw a future where the church will be under seat. He saw a future where he would say the church is under attack. Some time ago, some years ago, I listened to a message of his which he preached. I believe it was in 1988 in Ben Hitt's church. And in that message he said, among other things, he said that 1987 was the year when the church was under such great attack nationally and internationally. He said the church was attacked internationally. Several ministers of God were under attack in various ways and nationally all over the world there was attack. He said it was so bad that people were beginning to wonder whether God was still interested in the church. He said he looked into the scriptures in search of an answer and he said that he found in not less than 200 different situations where the people of God and the church were under attack and in each of those situations God effortlessly delivered the church. So in every generation, we have seen persecution but our government already has made a way. There is no question at all that he will give us victory on failing. So today the church of God is not afraid. We are not afraid. We are not doing it in any way. And I'm sure that the bishop was still alive today and he was here. He would have said that the children of the devil must bow to the children of God. He would have said no shaking. He would have said I am absolutely certain that he would have said no shaking. And I say to you no shaking. Mama as a son, I am immensely proud of you. First, you are a woman of history and destiny having cracked the glass ceiling of the religious, that religious glass ceiling and we spoke about it becoming the first female over Syria of a major African ministry. That is by itself and your personal view. But also you are a woman of the future because you have defined the destinies of so many and changed the destinies of so many by your messages, by your counsel and by your inspiration. I've known that at all that the Almighty God has so much ahead of you and so much out in the screen.  Happy birthday Mama. God bless you.