Dear All
The Wiki Loves Africa Marketing Materials are now available to be printed … they are available at this dropbox link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/f5f8xnnv8ykijum/AAAGMhS9XcDoltfAflldMykga?dl=0
The only thing outstanding is the poster that needs finalizing. This should be there by the end of business today.
Let me know if there are any questions or a need for clarification.
warmest
Isla
Isla Haddow-Flood
Co-project Manager
Username: Islahaddow
Hi all
I'm working on a pilot project with UNESCO to use text from their open
license publications on Wikipedia to create new articles and improve
existing ones. I'm working with an expert from the education department to
identify suitable text and would like to work with a couple of Wikimedians
to add the text to Wikipedia. The subjects we will start with are Education
for Sustainable Development and Prevention of Violent Extremism and we will
expand to more subjects as we progress.
There is more information in the suggested text section of this
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_UNESCO/UNESCO_text> page, it
is very much a work in progress so some things may not be clear. To the
best of my knowledge no one has done this before so I had to make it up as
I went along.
If anyone is interested in working on this please let me know :)
Thanks
John
Hi All,
I think tomorrow is the Global Reach Office Hours for Sub-Saharan Africa.
It will be nice to have many join in.
The details again:
Agenda
- Introduction of Global Reach Team and Office Hours
- Why Global Reach? Mission and goals of the team
- Wikipedia Zero
- Current initiatives and pilot partnerships to address awareness and
readership
- Understanding our users (New Readers)
- Next office hours: Nigeria phone survey results + countries comparison
- Wiki Indaba - Ghana
- Q&A
Date: Thursday 11/17/2016
Time: 19:00 Lagos; 21:00 Nairobi; 10:00 San Francisco
Language: English
Location: Google Hangout on Air (https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/ytl/
Y4P36GMpGTbFKTGeDO5pz0cOf2mB8hbzqvkb2jKxSgw=?hl=en_US&authuser=0)
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8OqXzNloEc
Cheers,
On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 7:48 AM, Jack Rabah <jrabah(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Thanks, Felix.
>
> Dear all,
>
> Please see below our agenda and meeting links on Google Hangout and
> Youtube to watch live:
>
>
>
> -
>
> Agenda
> -
>
> Introduction of Global Reach Team and Office Hours
> -
>
> Why Global Reach? Mission and goals of the team
> -
>
> Wikipedia Zero
> -
>
> Current initiatives and pilot partnerships to address awareness
> and readership
> -
>
> Understanding our users (New Readers)
> -
>
> Next office hours: Nigeria phone survey results + countries
> comparison
> -
>
> Wiki Indaba - Ghana
> -
>
> Q&A
>
>
> Google Hangout link: https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/ytl/
> Y4P36GMpGTbFKTGeDO5pz0cOf2mB8hbzqvkb2jKxSgw=?hl=en_US&authuser=0
>
> YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8OqXzNloEc
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions.
>
> Best,
> Jack
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 5:26 PM, Felix Nartey <flixtey(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> There will be a Sub-Saharan Africa office hours with the WMF Global Reach
>> Team on Thursday November 17th.
>>
>> Please see meeting details below:
>>
>> Date: Thursday 11/17/2016
>>
>> Time: 19:00 Lagos; 21:00 Nairobi; 10:00 San Francisco
>>
>> Language: English
>>
>> Location: Google Hangout on Air (link will be shared soon)
>>
>> This will be an informal meeting with the Global Reach Team, to share
>> more about their work and to provide some time and space to learn about all
>> the amazing work happening in the region. The agenda for the meeting will
>> be shared with all soon.
>>
>>
>> Please direct all related questions to Jack Rabah, copied in this mail
>> and remember to save the date!
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
>>
>>
>>
>> *Felix Nartey | DSE CAL Bank Ltd. | Co-manager GBG TEMA
>> <https://plus.google.com/u/0/106882654487622047846/posts> **| Community
>> Manager WMGH <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ghana> | About me
>> <http://about.me/felix.nartey> | +233 242 844987 **| **Check out!!
>> <http://goo.gl/4oHJeQ>*
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
>
> *Jack Rabah*
> Head of Strategic Partnerships - Middle East & Africa
> *Wikimedia Foundation*
> m. +962-7777-07745
> Amman - Jordan (GMT+2)
> Skype: Jack.M.Rabah
> www.wikimediafoundation.org
>
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<https://plus.google.com/u/0/106882654487622047846/posts> **| Community
Manager WMGH <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ghana> | About me
<http://about.me/felix.nartey> | +233 242 844987 **| **Check out!!
<http://goo.gl/4oHJeQ>*
Dear all,
There will be a Sub-Saharan Africa office hours with the WMF Global Reach
Team on Thursday November 17th.
Please see meeting details below:
Date: Thursday 11/17/2016
Time: 19:00 Lagos; 21:00 Nairobi; 10:00 San Francisco
Language: English
Location: Google Hangout on Air (link will be shared soon)
This will be an informal meeting with the Global Reach Team, to share more
about their work and to provide some time and space to learn about all the
amazing work happening in the region. The agenda for the meeting will be
shared with all soon.
Please direct all related questions to Jack Rabah, copied in this mail and
remember to save the date!
Cheers,
--
*Felix Nartey | DSE CAL Bank Ltd. | Co-manager GBG TEMA
<https://plus.google.com/u/0/106882654487622047846/posts> **| Community
Manager WMGH <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ghana> | About me
<http://about.me/felix.nartey> | +233 242 844987 **| **Check out!!
<http://goo.gl/4oHJeQ>*
Hello, Wikimedians of Africa!
The Reading team at the Wikimedia Foundation is working to support readers
who want to take articles offline to read and share later on their phones -
a use case we learned about from deep research earlier this year
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Findings> [0]. We’ve built a
few prototypes and are looking for people to test them, particularly people
who don’t know Wikipedia all that well.
We’d love if you could help us find anyone who doesn’t edit who might be
interested in this feature and would want to test it. If you know anyone
like this, please send them the following message:
----
Hello! Wikipedia needs your help to improve. We’re looking for people who
have internet access at least sometimes and like to have access to content
when they’re not connected to the internet. We would like to learn from
you. If you would be willing to participate in a study to tell us more,
please fill out this survey
<https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_09wJQzQs54DETUF> [1] before
November 25. Testing will only be available in English for now.
Thank you!
[1] https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_09wJQzQs54DETUF This survey
is hosted on a third-party service. For information about data handling and
privacy, please see the survey privacy statement:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Screener_Survey_for_Off
line_Reading_Study_Privacy_Statement
----
You can see the prototypes and leave comments on meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Offline>[2], though please
don’t send this page to anyone filling out the survey as it could bias test
results.
We’re also looking for feedback about how to identify and prioritize
regions for our work, and would welcome your perspective on that meta page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Target_countries>[3] as well.
Thanks,
Joe + New Readers
[0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Findings
[1] (duplicated from excerpt above) https://wikimedia.qualtrics.co
m/SE/?SID=SV_09wJQzQs54DETUF This survey is hosted on a third-party
service. For information about data handling and privacy, please see the
survey privacy statement: https://wikimediafoundation.or
g/wiki/Screener_Survey_for_Offline_Reading_Study_Privacy_Statement
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Offline
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Target_countries
--
*Joe Sutherland*
Community Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation
joesutherland.rocks | @jrbsu <http://twitter.com/jrbsu>