A big warm hello to my fellow African Wiki Community Members!
It's been almost a year since some of us met up at Wiki Indaba 2014. We all
left with a sense of purpose on how to expand Wikimedia in our community,
and had great ideas on how to increase the number of editors on Wikipedia.
Some personal pledges were made, and there have been several initiatives
from African countries over the last couple of months.
We are excited about the future of the Wikimedia movement in Africa, and
will be working hard in the coming months to expand on the foundations laid
at Wiki Indaba. We will of course need your input and feedback and will be
reaching out to you soon.
For those attending the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin this year, please
feel free to join us at the African meetup
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Social_events#Them
atic.2Fregional.2Flanguage-specific_meetups> where we will touch on what
has transpired this year, and discuss initiatives for going forward. We
will share notes of this meeting via meta for those who cannot attend.
There have been several discussions lately regarding the frequency of Wiki
Indaba gatherings. Considering that the African community is relatively
small, the suggestion at the 2014 conference was that such a gathering would
take place every 3 years, with Tunisia being selected as the next host.
Wikimedia ZA has not applied for funding to host an Indaba within the
upcoming financial year, but we will be happy to assist in applying for
funding from the Wikimedia Foundation to host future events.
We will reach out again at the beginning of June to map the way forward.
Wiki Regards
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Dear Intrepid African Wikipedians
I NEED YOUR HELP!
I have pledged to start the #100wikidays [1] challenge. My challenge is aimed at ensuring the remarkable African women that the text books, news and history books have failed to celebrate are covered on Wikipedia.
Please tell me your nominations ... Which female and African (ancient, historical and modern) innovator, leader, academic, scientist, activist, artist inspire you? Who do you think should be celebrated … (please send me more than 1)
I get started on the 1st September. Looking forward to it!!
Oh, and feel free to be part of the challenge!!
warmest
Isla
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania-2015-100wikidays.pdf <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania-2015-100wikidays.pdf>
skype: islahaddow
twitter: @wikiafrica /@havingaflood
get started: wikiafrica.net/toolkitsen.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Islahaddow
Hi friends
We have finalized the list of financially supported countries.
As a reminder, our original Grant request was to support 10 countries.
WMF granted support to 8 countries.
We actually received 10 propositions. 8 were complete. 1 lacked a
budget. 1 was just a draft.
So it was a bit heartbreaking, but we decided to support 7 countries at
full amount. And to divide the last to support two countries at half
budget.
The countries supported at original amount are Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt,
Nigeria, Tanzania, Ivory Coast and Uganda.
The two countries supported at partial amount are Ghana and Cameroon.
Now... let's do it !!!!
I am not done yet, but the basic framework of the Commons portal is
ready. Check out
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa
Feel free to jump in and help !
(no translation yet please. Let's finalize the content first)
You can also check the list of current issues here :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Wiki_Loves_Africa#Issues
Cheers
Florence & Isla
Dear Members,
Creative Commons Nigeria's Adopt a School project was selected byOuternet for funding via an online campaign.
The ‘Adopt a School’ Series is a five week training with focus oncreating content on the internet. The students will edit and create Wikipediaarticles, design simple websites using Mozilla Webmaker tools, learn aboutcreative commons licences and learn how to stay safe online.
Our application linkis http://donate.outernet.is/adopt-a-school-nigeria, please share withyour networks and on social media.
Thank you.
Kayode Yussuf
Hello Wikimedians in Africa,
Great effort to have wiki Loves Africa 2015.
As it looks, there are already 11 proposals from some of the African
Countries, with that level of interest, i think it will reflect the
quality of the 2015 contest.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa#Proposals_from_countries_…
Looking forward to more involvement from Uganda.
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Dear Wikipedians in Africa
We have sent this to many individuals, but we might have missed someone - excuse the cross posting if you get this twice.
A while back, Anthere and I sent a request for country proposal from teams across Africa to participate in the Wiki Loves Africa 2015 competition. We need you to upload this proposal by the 30th August. Do not send the proposal by email. Write it up on meta and add a link here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa#Proposals_from_countries_… <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa#Proposals_from_countries_…>
If you have already sent it, then thank you. We have uploaded it and linked it. Please check that it is there.
If you haven’t, and you do wish to be involved, please can you upload the proposal directly to META, and link to the page above. The competition starts on the 1st October, the last day we can accept proposals is the 30th August. The theme this year is Cultural Fashion and Adornment. It will be an exciting and interesting theme.
If you missed it, you can read the earlier email here:
Anthere and I are busy working with the WMF to get the grant proposal accepted - and are very interested in having new groups and countries on board! We would be very keen to consider you joining the group of sponsored volunteer groups, however this year we are wanting the teams to be proactive about their participation. Please see the information below that we sent out to last year’s organisers. If you would like to discuss these ideas among yourselves and get back to us by the end of this month, that would definitely give us an idea of who will be part of the project this year.
Anthere and I have applied to the WMF for Wiki Loves Africa 2015: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Africa_Centre/Wiki_Loves_Africa_… <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Africa_Centre/Wiki_Loves_Africa_…>
We would value your endorsement of the project here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Africa_Centre/Wiki_Loves_Africa_… <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Africa_Centre/Wiki_Loves_Africa_…>
This time we are hoping that 10 countries will host events, and for this reason have tried to establish criteria for involvement so that it will be clear who can be part of the project.
If you and your groups are keen to be involved, this year we are going to choose the groups based on their engagement plan. The plan should consider the following:
a cohesive plan of events over the two months of the competition -
an event and communications budget that should not exceed the 820 USD (700 event, and 120 communication material) allocated to each country
a list of the core team members (including email addresses)
a list of possible partners and targets for local funding (in-kind or monetary)
an idea of how to encourage quality submissions, e.g. an alliance with local photography groups, etc.
For events, please consider the following:
a press launch, if you feel it is necessary
an event aimed at introducing Wikimedia projects to a new audience that could potentially contribute and add to the user group team - a hub, interest group, school/ university, etc.
a quality photography demonstration by a local photography group before a wikitakes event
a collaboration with local designers or fashion event, or fashion and adornment heritage institution.
I look forward to seeing your proposals posted up by the 30th August!!
warmest regards
Isla and Anthere
Isla Haddow-Flood
Project Manager
WikiAfrica <http://www.wikiafrica.net/> at the Africa Centre <http://www.africacentre.net/>
tel: +27 21 418 3336
skype: islahaddow
twitter: @wikiafrica
get started: wikiafrica.net/toolkitsen.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Islahaddow
Dear Isla and Co,
What a marvellous job, we are proud of you.
Kindly take this mail as reminder on our letter of endorsement by Nigerian usergroup.
Regards.
Olaniyan Olushola _ Olbims Consulting, Solution Provider ( ERP and Accounting Software)
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1. Wiki Loves Africa 2015 (Isla, WikiAfrica)
2. Re: Wiki Loves Africa 2015 (Raphael Berchie)
3. Re: Wiki Loves Africa 2015 (Felix Nartey)
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Subject: [African Wikimedians] Wiki Loves Africa 2015
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Dear African Wikipedians,
Anthere and I have great pleasure telling you that the Wiki Loves Africa 2015 has been granted funding by the Wikimedia Foundation. In short - full speed ahead!!
Sadly, they will only support 8 focus countries. This means that the competition for focus countries is fierce. If you haven’t already submitted your countries’ proposal, then there is little chance it will be considered now. We will be going through the proposals and get back to those who have submitted their proposals by the 31st August.
We should also have the marketing materials and information by then.
Just thought you would like to hear the good news!!
warmest regards
Isla
> On 17 Aug 2015, at 12:32 PM, Isla, WikiAfrica <isla(a)wikiafrica.net <mailto:isla@wikiafrica.net>> wrote:
>
> Dear Wikipedians in Africa
>
> We have sent this to many individuals, but we might have missed someone - excuse the cross posting if you get this twice.
>
> A while back, Anthere and I sent a request for country proposal from teams across Africa to participate in the Wiki Loves Africa 2015 competition. We need you to upload this proposal by the 30th August. Do not send the proposal by email. Write it up on meta and add a link here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa#Proposals_from_countries_… <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa#Proposals_from_countries_…>
>
> If you have already sent it, then thank you. We have uploaded it and linked it. Please check that it is there.
>
> If you haven’t, and you do wish to be involved, please can you upload the proposal directly to META, and link to the page above. The competition starts on the 1st October, the last day we can accept proposals is the 30th August. The theme this year is Cultural Fashion and Adornment. It will be an exciting and interesting theme.
>
> If you missed it, you can read the earlier email here:
> Anthere and I are busy working with the WMF to get the grant proposal accepted - and are very interested in having new groups and countries on board! We would be very keen to consider you joining the group of sponsored volunteer groups, however this year we are wanting the teams to be proactive about their participation. Please see the information below that we sent out to last year’s organisers. If you would like to discuss these ideas among yourselves and get back to us by the end of this month, that would definitely give us an idea of who will be part of the project this year.
>
> Anthere and I have applied to the WMF for Wiki Loves Africa 2015: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Africa_Centre/Wiki_Loves_Africa_… <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Africa_Centre/Wiki_Loves_Africa_…>
>
> We would value your endorsement of the project here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Africa_Centre/Wiki_Loves_Africa_… <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Africa_Centre/Wiki_Loves_Africa_…>
>
> This time we are hoping that 10 countries will host events, and for this reason have tried to establish criteria for involvement so that it will be clear who can be part of the project.
>
> If you and your groups are keen to be involved, this year we are going to choose the groups based on their engagement plan. The plan should consider the following:
> a cohesive plan of events over the two months of the competition -
> an event and communications budget that should not exceed the 820 USD (700 event, and 120 communication material) allocated to each country
> a list of the core team members (including email addresses)
> a list of possible partners and targets for local funding (in-kind or monetary)
> an idea of how to encourage quality submissions, e.g. an alliance with local photography groups, etc.
> For events, please consider the following:
> a press launch, if you feel it is necessary
> an event aimed at introducing Wikimedia projects to a new audience that could potentially contribute and add to the user group team - a hub, interest group, school/ university, etc.
> a quality photography demonstration by a local photography group before a wikitakes event
> a collaboration with local designers or fashion event, or fashion and adornment heritage institution.
> I look forward to seeing your proposals posted up by the 30th August!!
>
> warmest regards
> Isla and Anthere
>
>
>
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>
>
>
> Isla Haddow-Flood
> Project Manager
> WikiAfrica <http://www.wikiafrica.net/> at the Africa Centre <http://www.africacentre.net/>
>
> tel: +27 21 418 3336
> skype: islahaddow
> twitter: @wikiafrica
> get started: wikiafrica.net/toolkits <http://wikiafrica.net/toolkits>
> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Islahaddow <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Islahaddow>
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