Hi there,
WMF is hiring a Community Liaison for a new project - please take a look at
the details below and feel free to pass on to people you know who might be
interested.
Best,
Kacie
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Hey everyone,
apologies for the cross-posting, we're just too excited:
we're looking for a new member for our team [0], who'll dive right away in
the promising Structured Data project. [1]
Is our future colleague hiding among the tech ambassadors, translators,
GLAM people, community members we usually work with? We look forward to
finding out soon.
So please, check the full job description [2], apply, or tell/recommend
anyone who you think may be a good fit. For any questions, please contact
me personally (not here).
Thanks!
Elitre (WMF)
Senior Community Liaison, Technical Collaboration
[0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Liaisons
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
[2]
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/610643?gh_src=o3gjf21#.WMGV0Rih…
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Hello everyone
Wiki Loves Women is officially launching its presentation video today.
Please check it out here and tell us what you think :
https://vimeo.com/207432965
It is also on Commons :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_loves_Women_-_English_WebM_-_F…
This video was a partnership between WikiAfrica, Goethe Institute and
Blink Tower.
It brought quite a few challenges... such as myself being completely
happy with the exact terms of the script, succeeding to get every
element of the video under a free licence including the background
music, getting a nice african women voice for the narrative, getting
curly hair rather than flat ones, identifying nice examples of western
as well as african concerns... etc. We tried to be as inclusive as
possible.
Well, we hope you like it.
If you do... please litterally "like" the video and "like" our facebook page
A French version is currently being recorded and should follow shortly.
Last, we would love to see the video subtitled in many langages. If you
want to give a hand for the translation, please get in touch with us (by
email, or twitter, or facebook, or on our meta talk page :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Women)
I'll set up a page for translation on meta shortly.
http://www.wikiloveswomen.orghttps://www.facebook.com/WikiLovesWomenhttp://www.twitter.com/wikiloveswomen
Isla and Florence
Dear all,
The 16WikiWomen Translation Drive was covered in Brazilian media yesterday [1].
Congratulations to the organizers and participants.
This is also to remind you that tomorrow is the International Women's Day. Let's celebrate African women together by joining the 16WikiWomen translation Drive. Can't wait to read about African women in local languages.
Best,
Isaac
1. www.cartaeducacao.com.br/reportagens/wikipedia-destaca-mulheres-africanas-e…
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FYI,
Best,
Isaac
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Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Occupation of Women on WikiData
This is a tool done by Envel Le Hir using WikiData and published today.
I actually inspired him the idea during a conference, when talking of my
desire to get generic data about women professionnal occupation. My main
argument is that I felt many of the added biographies about women were
about actors, singers, or football players. Much less about politicians
and business. But it was a "guess" and I wanted more hard data.
And apparently... he got busy
http://tools.dicare.org/gaps/gender.php
Ok.
Hard data (1950-2005 birth dates):
* 80% of the biographies of porn actors are about women.
* 98.3% of beauty pageant contestants are about women.
* 24% of politicians are about women
* 8.4% of computer scientists are about women.
Or ... In Algeria... the more popular occupation of women by far is...
Volley Ball !
In France... actors.
And in Guinea... well... hard to say... only 17 biographies about
Guinean women anyway.
Florence
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Dear Isaac, forgive me for trying to contribute something sarcastic. I
just wanted to point to the fact, that the nice article from Brazil
about our project carried a pretty stupid prejudice by listing different
"languages", but called the African ones just "dialects" , as if the
sounds coming out of Africa have not yet reached the level of a
"language". "Dialect" often (not by linguists proper) has a connotation
as an inferior, substandard level of communication compared to a "real
language". So these 16 poor African women at home only learned
"dialects", luckily most of them later came to acquire some knowledge in
real "languages"?
I mean the sentence "biografias de personalidades femininas africanas
<http://www.cartaeducacao.com.br/reportagens/africanas-high-tech/> serão
editadas em *diversas línguas diferentes*: árabe, inglês, francês,
espanhol, português, mandarim e alemão, além de *dialetos africanos,
como yorubá e zulu*. "
Which means in English "Biographies of African female personalities
will be published in *several different languages*: Arabic, English,
French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin and German, as well as *African
dialects such as Yoruba and Zulu.*"
One might call this somehow a "praise laced with poison of arrogance"
(maybe a bit racism). But as said before, it was basically just a
sarcastic remark, so no instant action needed (unless someone could
write a letter of protest to the newspaper in Portuguese "dialect")
Ingo
> Hi Ingo, Do you mean a proposal on how to improve articles about African languages or on how to improve African language Wikipedia? What do you have in mind?
> Best, Isaac
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> From: "IKoll" <ikoll(a)gmx.de>
> Dear all,
> Surely it is positive that a Brazilian newspaper took note of the project... However, reading the text (with help of google translate) I learn that they tell readers about African Women bios being translated into a number of "languages" (like Arabic, English, Portuguese) and even "African DIALECTS" (like Yoruba and Zulu).
>
> Ok, next project to draw attention to the fact that there are not only notable WOMEN in Africa but even notable LANGUAGES? Any proposals?
> Cheers Ingo
Dear All,
Trust you are fine
As part of our efforts to improve the awareness of Wikimedia related
projects and activities in Nigeria. This is to officially inform the global
community that Wikimedia UG Nigeria (WUGN) has been official approved to
run Wikimedia Fan Club, University of Ibadan at the oldest University in
Nigeria, University of Ibadan (UI).
We will really appreciate all your supports and assistance.
Best
Olushola
Team Lead, Wikimedia UG Nigeria
Dear all,
Surely it is positive that a Brazilian newspaper took note of the project... However, reading the text (with help of google translate) I learn that they tell readers about African Women bios being translated into a number of "languages" (like Arabic, English, Portuguese) and even "African DIALECTS" (like Yoruba and Zulu).
Ok, next project to draw attention to the fact that there are not only notable WOMEN in Africa but even notable LANGUAGES? Any proposals?
Cheers Ingo
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1. 16WikiWomen Translation Drive (Olatunde Isaac)
Dear all,
The 16WikiWomen Translation Drive was covered in Brazilian media yesterday [1 http://www.cartaeducacao.com.br/reportagens/wikipedia-destaca-mulheres-afri…].
Congratulations to the organizers and participants.
In addition, if you noticed that a topic as already been covered in your language and appears to be a stub, you could help to de-stub it.
Best,
Isaac
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From: "Olatunde Isaac" <reachout2isaac(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 06:20:46
To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians<african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Reply-To: reachout2isaac(a)gmail.com
Subject: 16WikiWomen Translation Drive
Dear all,
The 16WikiWomen Translation Drive was covered in Brazilian media yesterday [1].
Congratulations to the organizers and participants.
This is also to remind you that tomorrow is the International Women's Day. Let's celebrate African women together by joining the 16WikiWomen translation Drive. Can't wait to read about African women in local languages.
Best,
Isaac
1. www.cartaeducacao.com.br/reportagens/wikipedia-destaca-mulheres-africanas-e…
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