African-Wikimedians March 2017

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WikiFundi is featured on Wikimedia Blog
by Samuel Guebo 10 Mar '17

10 Mar '17

Hello Folks, An interesting blog post [1] about the WikiFundi tool. PS: @Shola, @Georges and @Kangah look awesome on the cover picture :-). [1] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/03/10/digest-wiki-fundi/ -- *_______________________________________________________* *Samuel Guebo* *Creative Director **at E-voir <http://e-voir.net/>* *GLAM-WIKI Coordinator in Côte d'IvoireVice-chair of Wikimedia Community User Group Côte d'Ivoire (WCUG-CI)* *(225) 77 34 17 21 / 40 27 28 37**Join me on : Facebook <http://facebook.com./samuel.guebo> / Twitter <http://twitter.com/samuelguebo> / Blog <http://samuelguebo.co>*

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Fwd: [GLAM] CLs are hiring...
by Kacie Harold 10 Mar '17

10 Mar '17

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 ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Erica Litrenta <elitrenta(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 4:20 AM Subject: [GLAM] CLs are hiring... To: Cc: <translators-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, < wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, < commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> 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… _______________________________________________ GLAM mailing list GLAM(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam

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Africa
by Turoahmarco60 10 Mar '17

10 Mar '17

I am Turoah Marco from Sudan Sent from Samsung Mobile

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Wiki Loves Women launching its presentation video
by Florence Devouard 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

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.org https://www.facebook.com/WikiLovesWomen http://www.twitter.com/wikiloveswomen Isla and Florence

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16WikiWomen Translation Drive
by Olatunde Isaac 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

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… Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.

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Fw: [Wikimedia-l] Occupation of Women on WikiData
by Olatunde Isaac 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

FYI, Best, Isaac Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile. -----Original Message----- From: Florence Devouard <fdevouard(a)gmail.com> Sender: "Wikimedia-l" <wikimedia-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 14:01:14 To: <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Reply-To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> 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 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 9, Issue 47
by Ingo Koll 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

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 > -----Original Message----- > 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

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Approval: Wikimedia UG Fan Club, University of Ibadan, Oyomo state. Nigeria.
by Olushola Olaniyan 07 Mar '17

07 Mar '17

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

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Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 9, Issue 46 EVEN IN AFRICAN DIALECTS!
by IKoll 07 Mar '17

07 Mar '17

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 -----Original Message----- 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.

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Re: [African Wikimedians] 16WikiWomen Translation Drive
by Olatunde Isaac 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

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 Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile. -----Original Message----- 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… Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.

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