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Today's Topics:
1. Theme for WLA 2016 shall be : Music and danse (Florence Devouard)
2. Re: Theme for WLA 2016 shall be : Music and danse
(Geoffrey Kateregga)
3. Re: Fwd: Official descriptions of all UNESCO Biosphere
Reserve sites available under a Wikipedia compatible license
(Florence Devouard)
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Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 10:01:13 +0200
From: Florence Devouard <anthere(a)anthere.org>
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Subject: [African Wikimedians] Theme for WLA 2016 shall be : Music and
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Hello everyone
By a very short margin, the theme 2016 for Wiki Loves Africa has been
chosen. It shall be Music and Danse !!!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa/2016_theme_ide…
Yeah. Thank you to all of those who voted and let's the show begin !
As a reminder, if you have not done it yet, please endorse the grant
request to WMF. Thanks
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Yorg/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016
Cheers
Flo
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Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 12:20:05 +0300
From: Geoffrey Kateregga <kateregga1(a)gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] Theme for WLA 2016 shall be : Music
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Thanks Florence, lets the show begin.
Music and Dance is going to be an interesting theme.
On 1 Jun 2016 11:09, "Florence Devouard" <anthere(a)anthere.org> wrote:
> Hello everyone
>
> By a very short margin, the theme 2016 for Wiki Loves Africa has been
> chosen. It shall be Music and Danse !!!
>
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa/2016_theme_ide…
>
>
> Yeah. Thank you to all of those who voted and let's the show begin !
>
>
> As a reminder, if you have not done it yet, please endorse the grant
> request to WMF. Thanks
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Yorg/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Flo
>
>
>
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Hmmm
Last week... I saw ONE red point in South Africa. And now... I see none
whatsoever.
How can that be ?
We should see 8 points, should not we ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Network_of_Biosphere_Reserves_in_Africa…
Flo
Le 23/05/16 à 10:06, john cummings a écrit :
> Hi Florence
>
> Thanks very much for your reply, the map shows Reserves that are
> missing articles, however I still need to add some sites to the list
> so have a look towards the end of the week and there might be some appear.
>
> Cheers
>
> John
>
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> From: *Florence Devouard* <anthere(a)anthere.org
> <mailto:anthere@anthere.org>>
> Date: 22 May 2016 at 22:36
> Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] Official descriptions of all UNESCO
> Biosphere Reserve sites available under a Wikipedia compatible license
> To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians
> <african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> <mailto:african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org>>
>
>
> Hello John
>
> I gave it a quick look and it seemed really really cool.
> I saw on the map that there was one non covered region in South
> Africa. I will take care of it this week and share my return on
> experience.
>
> Flo
>
>
> Le 20/05/16 à 23:23, john cummings a écrit :
>> Hi all
>>
>> I'm very happy to say that UNESCO has made the official descriptions
>> of all Biosphere Reserve sites available under a Wikipedia compatible
>> license. Currently around 440 (out of 670) of the Biosphere Reserves
>> do not have an English language Wikipedia article.
>>
>> These descriptions can be used as the missing Wikipedia articles with
>> very little adaption. I have created (with a lot of help) a pretty
>> snazzy Wikidata map and a set of instructions to help people create
>> the missing articles. As far as I know this is the first time someone
>> has done something like this The people who have already used the
>> instructions say it takes around 10 minutes to create a new article,
>> which is quite fast I think. Please give it a try. You can use the
>> map to see which articles are missing in each country.
>>
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_UNESCO/Create_Biosphere_Reserve…
>>
>> I would really love it if you could create some articles (there are
>> quite a few missing sites in Africa) and also retweet me to help more
>> people know about it. Once the articles are created in English I'm
>> hoping that it will make it easier for people to create articles in
>> other languages as well.
>>
>> https://twitter.com/mrjohnc/status/733623393233346560
>>
>> Thanks very much
>>
>> John
>>
>>
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