Well done Flo and Isla. Proud of you guys and your dedication. Malawi is
definitely applying.
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> 3. Wiki Loves Africa 2016 ! Call for funding requests officially
> open ! (Florence Devouard)
> 4. Re: Wiki Loves Africa 2016 ! Call for funding requests
> officially open ! (Isla Haddow Flood)
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> From: Florence Devouard <anthere(a)anthere.org>
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> Subject: [African Wikimedians] Wiki Loves Africa 2016 ! Call for
> funding requests officially open !
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> Yeah !
>
>
> Hello everyone
>
> Here are some fresh news regarding Wiki Loves Africa.
>
> As a reminder, the theme chosen for 2016 is "Music and Dance".
> The portal page on Commons :
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016
>
> IMPORTANT: the dates have changed. _The new dates for the contest are
> 1st of December till 31st of January. _
> It is planned on purpose to start just after WikiIndaba.
>
> We are happy to say that WMF has agreed to invest slightly more money at
> the local level this year.
> We will be able to support up to 10 countries (against 8 during previous
> years).
> Maximum budget available per country is also potentially slightly higher
> this year, up to 1000 dollars (or even slightly more if you can convince
> us).
>
> Submission of propositions is now open
> * Read guidelines to submit propositions here :
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/
> Participating_country_event_guidelines
>
> * Post your propositions there :
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016
>
>
> BUDGET and EXPECTATIONS
>
> There are some changes this year.
>
> We do not expect all teams to provide a similar budget.
> Please note that higher budget mean higher expectations. We assume that
> some teams will want to put a lot of efforts in the contest (with press
> conference, local ceremony and prizes, post-contest integration events
> etc.) whilst other teams will prefer to play it more casual (with only a
> couple of photo hunts and upload events). So we would like to see that
> reflected in your propositions. Enjoy the contest ! Do not let it become
> a hassle !
> Plan great things, but do not exhaust yourselves trying to do more than
> your team can really do. Some teams are made of over 20 people. Other
> teams may be only 2 people. Obviously, both teams can not invest as much
> time and energy.
> So please, plan accordingly and finetune your propositions.
>
>
> The other change this year is that Elisabeth will help us on that (very)
> difficult path: financial reporting. Ugh.
> Elisabeth is already known by some of you ... she is French... and she
> has been helping on Wikimedia France fundraising/accounting for several
> years... and also edited a bit :) and her daughter posted pictures
> during WLA 2014 ;)
> She will be in charge of collecting your banking information, recording
> your budget, collecting your receipts, and reporting all this in a nice
> table.
> We simply ask you to submit a budget with all expenses fitting the
> categories described here:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/
> Participating_country_event_guidelines
> Our goal is on one hand to make the whole system more transparent and on
> the other hand, to make it as simple as possible for you.
>
>
> The last important change with regards to budget and financial issues is
> that our host partner is no more Africa Centre but is now Ynternet.org
> (in copy of this email, Thanasis, his director).
> For more information on this organization :
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Yorg/Wiki_
> Loves_Africa_2016#Grant_Requestor:_Ynternet.org
> We can expect Ynternet.org will do more than being simply financial
> host, in particular in French speaking countries :) More on this later.
>
> Any question... clarification request... please speak up !
>
>
> Florence and Isla
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
Hello everyone
The WikiFundi software is nearly ready to go in its first version.
The V1 software will be distributed to at least 300 shools members of
the Orange Foundation Digital Schools Network.
This version will in particular come to support a writing contest
organized in schools early 2017.
(the next version of the software will be published in a couple of
months with a stronger focus on wikimedian activity).
If you have a couple of minutes available, please help us detect
oddities or plain bugs...
Check out http://en.africapack.kiwix.org/
Please do not be surprised if you can NOT edit the pages of this wiki.
The pages are actually worked upon on Wikipedia itself and automatically
imported from time to time.
If you notice something wrong, please
* either tell me so directly
* or drop a note here : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiFundi
* or directly update the editable pages here :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikipack_Africa_Content
Thanks
Flo
Yeah !
Hello everyone
Here are some fresh news regarding Wiki Loves Africa.
As a reminder, the theme chosen for 2016 is "Music and Dance".
The portal page on Commons :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016
IMPORTANT: the dates have changed. _The new dates for the contest are
1st of December till 31st of January. _
It is planned on purpose to start just after WikiIndaba.
We are happy to say that WMF has agreed to invest slightly more money at
the local level this year.
We will be able to support up to 10 countries (against 8 during previous
years).
Maximum budget available per country is also potentially slightly higher
this year, up to 1000 dollars (or even slightly more if you can convince
us).
Submission of propositions is now open
* Read guidelines to submit propositions here :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Participating_countr…
* Post your propositions there :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016
BUDGET and EXPECTATIONS
There are some changes this year.
We do not expect all teams to provide a similar budget.
Please note that higher budget mean higher expectations. We assume that
some teams will want to put a lot of efforts in the contest (with press
conference, local ceremony and prizes, post-contest integration events
etc.) whilst other teams will prefer to play it more casual (with only a
couple of photo hunts and upload events). So we would like to see that
reflected in your propositions. Enjoy the contest ! Do not let it become
a hassle !
Plan great things, but do not exhaust yourselves trying to do more than
your team can really do. Some teams are made of over 20 people. Other
teams may be only 2 people. Obviously, both teams can not invest as much
time and energy.
So please, plan accordingly and finetune your propositions.
The other change this year is that Elisabeth will help us on that (very)
difficult path: financial reporting. Ugh.
Elisabeth is already known by some of you ... she is French... and she
has been helping on Wikimedia France fundraising/accounting for several
years... and also edited a bit :) and her daughter posted pictures
during WLA 2014 ;)
She will be in charge of collecting your banking information, recording
your budget, collecting your receipts, and reporting all this in a nice
table.
We simply ask you to submit a budget with all expenses fitting the
categories described here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Participating_countr…
Our goal is on one hand to make the whole system more transparent and on
the other hand, to make it as simple as possible for you.
The last important change with regards to budget and financial issues is
that our host partner is no more Africa Centre but is now Ynternet.org
(in copy of this email, Thanasis, his director).
For more information on this organization :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Yorg/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016#Gran…
We can expect Ynternet.org will do more than being simply financial
host, in particular in French speaking countries :) More on this later.
Any question... clarification request... please speak up !
Florence and Isla