September 2018 - African-wikimedia-developers

African Outreachy Intern
by EDIDIONG ASIKPO 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

Hello, I'm having troubles subscribing to the IRC channel it keeps showing this error below: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /mailman/subscribe/african-wikimedia-developers on this server. How can I go about this? Thank you!

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Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Derick N. Alangi 25 Sep '18

25 Sep '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Michael Schönitzer <michael.schoenitzer(a)wikimedia.de> Date: Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 1:07 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, < wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Cloud Services general discussion and support <cloud(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, < wikidata-tech(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. Question can be asked in English, Persian & German. The Technical Advice IRC Meeting is a weekly support event for volunteer developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to help you with all your questions about Mediawiki, gadgets, tools and more! This can be anything from "how to get started" over "who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project. If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your topic to the next meeting: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting Hope to see you there! Michi (for the Technical Advice IRC Meeting crew) -- Michael F. Schönitzer Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Call for Volunteer Google Code-In 2018 Mentors from Africa in Wikimedia
by Derick N. Alangi 19 Sep '18

19 Sep '18

Hello Everyone, This is another call (reminder) for volunteer mentors for this round's Google Code-In Program 2018 in the Wikimedia movement from Africa. If you're interested in mentoring, sign-up and list yourself here as mentor: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203068. Looking forward to getting more sign-ups :) *Awesome Cheers,* *Derick N. Alangi (d3r1ck)* *"One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it" --Master Oogway*

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Wikimedia has been accepted for GCI2018
by Perside Rosalie 18 Sep '18

18 Sep '18

Forwarded ========= As written in https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-September/090799.html we applied. Today we got accepted as one of 27 organizations! Now we need many tasks and mentors. Please check https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors if you have not yet and provide some smaller tasks that you'd mentor. Thanks! -- <https://about.me/perside?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=emai…> Perside Rosalie about.me/perside <https://about.me/perside?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=emai…>

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Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Derick N. Alangi 18 Sep '18

18 Sep '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Michael Schönitzer <michael.schoenitzer(a)wikimedia.de> Date: Tue, Sep 18, 2018, 4:15 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, < wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Cloud Services general discussion and support <cloud(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, < wikidata-tech(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. Question can be asked in English & German. The Technical Advice IRC Meeting is a weekly support event for volunteer developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to help you with all your questions about Mediawiki, gadgets, tools and more! This can be anything from "how to get started" over "who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project. If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your topic to the next meeting: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting Hope to see you there! Michi (for the Technical Advice IRC Meeting crew) -- Michael F. Schönitzer Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Monthly IRC meeting
by Perside Rosalie 12 Sep '18

12 Sep '18

Hello guys, This is just to remind you of our monthly IRC meeting this F*riday 14th September* at 4pm UTC on *#wikimedia-dev-africa*. The following email will have more information about the meeting. Please! Do well to add that to your agenda. Regards -- <https://about.me/perside?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=emai…> Perside Rosalie about.me/perside <https://about.me/perside?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=emai…>

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Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Wednesday: Technical Advice IRC Meeting
by Derick N. Alangi 11 Sep '18

11 Sep '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Michael Schönitzer <michael.schoenitzer(a)wikimedia.de> Date: Tue, Sep 11, 2018, 3:11 PM Reminder: Technical Advice IRC meeting again **Wednesday 3-4 pm UTC** on #wikimedia-tech. Question can be asked in English, German & Persian. The Technical Advice IRC Meeting is a weekly support event for volunteer developers. Every Wednesday, two full-time developers are available to help you with all your questions about Mediawiki, gadgets, tools and more! This can be anything from "how to get started" over "who would be the best contact for X" to specific questions on your project. If you know already what you would like to discuss or ask, please add your topic to the next meeting: https://www.mediawiki.org/ wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting Hope to see you there! Michi (for the Technical Advice IRC Meeting crew) -- Michael F. Schönitzer Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Google Code-in 2018: Mentor some smaller tasks for young contributors!
by Andre Klapper 07 Sep '18

07 Sep '18

Also see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203068 <tl;dr>: Read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors and add your name to the mentors table and start tagging #GCI-2018 tasks. We'll need MANY mentors and MANY tasks, otherwise we cannot make it. Google Code-in is an annual contest for 13-17 year old students. It will take place from Oct23 to Dec13. It's not only about coding: we also need tasks about design, docs, outreach/research, QA. Last year, 300 students worked on 760 tasks supported by 51 mentors. For some achievements from last round, see https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/20/wikimedia-google-code-in-2017/ While we wait whether Wikimedia will get accepted: * You have small, self-contained bugs you'd like to see fixed? * Your documentation needs specific improvements? * Your user interface has some smaller design issues? * Your Outreachy/Summer of Code project welcomes small tweaks? * You'd enjoy helping someone port your template to Lua? * Your gadget code uses some deprecated API calls? * You have tasks in mind that welcome some research? Note that "beginner tasks" (e.g. "Set up Vagrant") and generic tasks are very welcome (like "Choose and fix 2 PHP7 issues from the list in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120336" style). We also have more than 400 unassigned open #easy tasks listed: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/HCyOonSbFn.z/#R Can you mentor some of those tasks in your area? Please take a moment to find / update [Phabricator etc.] tasks in your project(s) which would take an experienced contributor 2-3 hours. Read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors , ask if you have any questions, and add your name to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/2018#List_of_Wikimedia_mentors (If you have mentored before and have a good overview of our infrastructure: We also need more organization admins! See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Admins ) Thanks (as we cannot run this without your help), andre -- Andre Klapper | ak-47(a)gmx.net https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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Upcoming AWMD Today : AWMD Meeting in a few more minutes
by Derick N. Alangi 07 Sep '18

07 Sep '18

Hello Everyone, This is a gentle reminder that there will be an AWMD meeting in a few minutes. Channel is #wikimedia-dev-africa. See you soon! *Awesome Cheers,* *Derick N. Alangi (d3r1ck)* *"One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it" --Master Oogway*

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AfroCROWD Wikipedia Opportunities & News (September-October, 2018)
by AfroCROWD 06 Sep '18

06 Sep '18

[1] [2] [3] [4] June 2017 Opportunities & News Learn to edit Wikipedia at these exciting events: "Collecting Resistance: Histories of Social Justice in Detroit" Wikipedia Editathon and Oral History Capture at the Allied Media Conference, Detroit When:Sunday, June 18th, 2017, 10:00 am – 2:30 pm Where: Wayne State University, State Hall Room 137,Detroit, MI Not in Detroit? - No worries, edit with us [5] online AfroCROWD is headed to Detroit for the Allied Media Conference, an exciting gathering of changemakers from all over the country happening June 15-18th at Wayne State university, Detroit, Michigan. Join us in person or [6] onlinefor a Wikipedia learn-to-edit-a-thon and oral history capture focused on curating the history of civil rights and social justice movements in Detroit through firsthand and researched accounts. Afro Free-Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia (AfroCROWD) and the Radical, Libraries, Archives and Museums track (RadLAM) invite participants to share testimonies at an oral history listening Station, or get trained on how to add and edit articles on Wikipedia. Wikipedia coaches and members of RadLAM will be on-hand to help. Learn more about the [7] Allied Media Conference here. *For those attending in person, please bring a laptop and [8] register for a Wikipedia account ahead of the event. You can also edit alongside of us the day of the event via the [9] AfroCROWD Wiki meetup page. [10] Sign Up Other Wikipedia Happenings Flash opportunity to connect with the Hip Hop Hacks community starting this weekend! Hip Hop Hacks Monthly Music Hackathon Saturday June 10, 2017, 12:00 pm - 8:00 pm (wiki workshop 2-4 pm) at Spotify, 45 W 18th St, 3rd Floor Join us on Saturday, June 10th for [11] Hip Hop Hacks at the Monthly Music Hackathonincluding Wikipedia participation in a general hacking event. The theme this time is [12] hip hop. Note that this is a general hackathon and not exclusively a Wikipedia event. There will be a Wikipedia workshop there from 2-4 pm for anyone who wants to learn to edit. Some people at this event are producing audio and wish to share it. Wikipedia editors are invited to help them upload this audio and integrate it into relevant Wikipedia articles. The hackathon is being introduced to us in association with the Wikipedia presentation happening at the [13] International Conference of Auditory Displayin Pennsylvania. Important>> [14] Please sign up so security will let you in![15] [16] Sign Up The Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon NYCwill be held Thursday June 22, 2017at the [17] Museum of Modern Art. Themes for this event include art related to HIV/AIDS activism and on LGBTQ artists of the African Diaspora as part of the [18] Black Lunch Tableproject. This is the third annual Wiki Loves Pride editathon at MoMA - see [19] 2015 editionand [20] 2016 edition. [21] Sign Up Wikimania 2017 Join us! August 9-13, 2017 in Montréal, Canada. Wikimania 2017, the 13th annual international conference of the Wikimedia movement, is being held August 9-13, 2017 in Montréal, Canada. This is an action packed, fun, global conference of all things Wikipedia that is open to the public. Each year the conference is held in a new country. This year, we are happy to have it in our back yard. Whether you actively edit Wikipedia, mostly enjoy reading the content, have thought of doing more with Wikipedia, or are just curious about the free knowledge movement, Wikimania is for you. Learn more about [22] [23] Wikimania 2017 here.More registration information coming soon. WikiConference North America 2017 We are pleased to announce that [24] WikiConference North America 2017will be held in Montrealon Wednesdayand Thursday, August 9-10thas a pre-conference to Wikimania(Friday-Sunday August 11-13th).August 9-10 in Montreal, Canada Wednesday, August 9th:Culture Crawl at various cultural institutions in Montreal. Focus: galleries, libraries, archives, museums, and monuments. Thursday, August 10th:This day will be full of programming, with a keynote, tracks, and lightning talks followed by the official Wikimania kick-off receptionthat evening at the conference venue, Le Centre Sheraton Montreal. Interested in providing feedback and helping make WikiConference great? We've set up a [25] quick feedback formfor you to send us your ideas; also feel free to e-mail us at[26] info(a)wikiconference.org. For more info head to: [27] Website- [28] Twitter- [29] Facebook Don't miss the Wiki-Train! On August 8, Wikimedia New York Cityis planning a [30] Adirondack Wiki-Train Ride, a special pre-conference train ride from New York City to Montreal. This is a day-long train trip mostly through the beautiful Upstate New York countryside (8:15 am - 7:11pm). If you are interested in attending, [31] check out the event page and sign up! We are also working on getting low cost[32] [33] accomodationfor the conference. Right now they are as low as $40/night. Stay tuned. [34] Sign Up Recent Events Brooklyn Library Skillshare In May, AfroCROWD was pleased to participate in the fourth annual Skillshare at the Info Commons of the Brooklyn Library. We joined technologists, designers, and other free culture supporters for a day of learning through workshops, demonstrations and presentations by people from throughout the New York City area. Congratulationsto the Brooklyn Library organizers for another successful event. Join the Global Wikipedia Community today with AfroCROWD! [35] Click here to get a Wikipedia Account! For more up to the minute info on AfroCROWD and other Wiki events, click here to follow us on [36] Twitter[37] @AfroCROWDItand on [38] Facebookand [39] Instagram [40] @AfroCROWD and click below to share! [41] [42] Share [43] [44] Share If you have editing ideas, or are looking to partner with AfroCROWD for a coming event, please contact us today: Founder, Executive Director - Alice Backer- [45] Alice(a)AfroCROWD.org Program Manager, Public Outreach - Sherry Antoine, MPA: [46] Sherry(a)AfroCROWD.org Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia (AfroCROWD)is an initiative which seeks to increase the number of people of African Descents who actively partake in the Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture and software movements. Since its launch during Black Wiki History Month in 2015, AfroCROWD has sensitized thousands in its target audience about free culture crowdsourcing and the need to close the multicultural and gender gaps in Wikipedia. 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