African-Wikimedians January 2018

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by Joy Agyepong 24 May '19

24 May '19

Hi Kayode, Got this mail,thanks. Joy

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AffCom Elections
by yamen bousrih 24 Jan '18

24 Jan '18

Dear All, I'm happy to inform you that our friends Emna Mizouni and Sami Mlouhi have been respectively re-elected and newly elected members of the AffCom! Congratulations for them and for Tunisia and good luck ! [Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee appointments | | | [Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee appointments | | | Thanks Yamen

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Fwd: Let's map capacities! (Announcing the CCM)
by Asaf Bartov 15 Jan '18

15 Jan '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 1:59 PM Subject: Let's map capacities! (Announcing the CCM) To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Dear Wikimedians, *How many Wikimedia communities have embraced advanced Wikidata use? How many have active social media accounts, and are there geographic or cultural patterns to which groups have and have not? Which groups have a written, current strategy? What are the most common gaps in capacity in Latin America? or in Eastern Europe? What kind of investment in capacity building would be likely to bring the most value?* To answer these questions and more, we invite all of you to participate in the new *Community Capacity Map (CCM)*: a *self-assessment exercise* for communities, groups (whether formally recognized user groups or not), thematic organizations, and chapters, to *map capacities* across the movement, with a view to identifying *existing gaps* as well as *opportunities for capacity-building*. The CCM is here on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Map The context for this work, as well as "likely-asked questions, with answers" ("LAQ"?), are explained here, including an answer to "*why should I take the time to read all this?*" -- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Map/About (and also pasted at the bottom of this e-mail, for your convenience.) The self-assessment is to be done based on the detailed *Guidelines* provided here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Map/Guidelines I am looking forward to learning more about your groups' and orgs' capacities and gaps, and to do my best to play matchmaker between those needs and our available resources and opportunities. While I encourage you to begin contributing straightaway, *there is no deadline *-- this is envisioned to be a long-term, ongoing, and tracked-over-time tool -- so contribute if and when your group is able to make the time. (don't forget to scroll down to the LAQ!) Warmly, Asaf Bartov Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities ========================================== Likely-asked questions, with answers this exists with working links and [modest] formatting here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Map/About#Likely-asked_q… Why do this at all? The Community Resources team is doing this to attempt a more *comprehensive* view of capacities and gaps across the movement, to enhance our existing, anecdotal and ad-hoc, impressions of only some of the communities and affiliates. See the goal statement above. Why now? The CCM experiment is an implementation of one of the recommendations made at the conclusion of the Community Capacity Development pilot year <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Development/Overall_pilo…> . Why should I spend the time to read through it or go through the self-assessment? There are a couple of reasons you may want to put in the time: First, by self-assessing your group/organization's capacities and gaps, you are giving WMF and other potential investors in community capacity a chance to provide your group/org with resources and opportunities to *build up* those capacities. Secondly, self-assessing according to the Guidelines page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Map/Guidelines> may be in itself a worthwhile exercise and discussion-starter for your group/org, pointing at potential areas for proactive work by *your org/group itself*, for example in your next annual plan. Finally, self-assessing (at least some) capacities today would enable you to review and re-assess in six months, or two years, and see how your group/org has developed (or not) in each of these aspects. So does WMF expect all groups and organizations to do this? No. This is an opportunity and a tool. Like all other tools, you are free to use it or not, and we certainly understand that it would take time and that you may have more pressing priorities in your group/org. We *hope* as many groups, organizations, and communities eventually take the time to self-assess, at least on some capacities, but it is not mandatory, and there would be no penalty for not participating. Would we have to provide self-assessments for *all* of the capacities? No. Feel free to self-assess on as many or as few capacities as you are able to, interested in, or find relevant. You can also add assessments gradually, as your group/org finds time to discuss and agree on assessments. Should I assess capacities in the context of my wiki community, my user-group/chapter, or what? It depends. It may make sense to do separate assessments, or just one. For example, while the English community has plenty of bot builders and technical experts, you may belong to a small community contributing in English in a country with little or no bot-building expertise, such as Wikimedians in Uganda. In this case, it would make sense to describe the capacities of the Ugandan group you're part of, and not of the whole English Wikipedia community. On the other hand, it is possible that there is a very high degree of overlap between the Estonian community's capacities and the Estonian chapter's capacities, and in that case, it may be most useful to assess just once, for the Estonian community *or* Wikimedia Estonia, or possibly once for the community for on-wiki capacities, and separately for Wikimedia Estonia only for the organizational and off-wiki capacities. See the Guidelines <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Map/Guidelines> page for more details. Okay, and suppose we did put in the time and provided some assessments. What can we expect next? You can expect, at the very least, one program officer at Community Resources paying attention to your contribution, and possibly, depending on each specific capacity and assessment, that officer may have resources or opportunities to suggest to your community/group/org. *The more groups provide assessments, the better-informed WMF would be*, and the more likely it would be that *WMF could allocate resources and create training opportunities* for your group. Shared needs in a region would increase the likelihood of WMF acting even further, as it would allow economizing on the investment by training/supporting several groups/communities at once. Are you saying if X number of communities demonstrate need Y, WMF is *guaranteed* to allocate resources to fill that need? I'm afraid not. But it does make it *more likely*, in that it demonstrates the need, making it easier to argue for it in internal budgeting and allocation discussions, and to marshal internal WMF resources (such as borrowing the time of subject experts at WMF to conduct training or mentor groups). Okay, so how would WMF decide which communities to offer resources to? There's no simple deterministic algorithm, but WMF would prioritize emerging communities <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Defining_Emerging_Comm…> over other communities, larger groups serving larger populations over smaller ones, and at least at first, would probably prioritize "low-hanging fruit" -- lower-cost/lower-risk investments, as we learn and improve this program's use of resources. Wouldn't the fact these are self-assessments mean we'd be comparing apples to oranges, given some groups would overestimate or underestimate their own capacities? No. We do understand there are some cultural tendencies (some cultures are more self-critical than others, or have rosier or more pessimistic views of future prospects and current capabilities). However, we think the fairly coarse granularity of the assessments (none/low/medium/high), coupled with *the Guidelines <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Map/Guidelines>* for self-assessing, would lead most groups to make reasonably comparable assessments. Ultimately, these would remain subjective and unscientific assessments; but they would certainly at least indicate a group/org's *own* perception of their capacity. And before WMF (or others interested in investing in capacity building) make a decision to tackle a particular capacity with a particular community/group/org/region, we would be sure to take into consideration *all the relevant context* we have, i.e. not just the aggregate of the self-assessments in the CCM, but also all the accumulated experience, context, and history we are aware of at WMF, regarding that community/group/org/region. Okay, this may not be *the worst* idea ever to come from WMF We're glad you think so. :) What if none of this turns out the way you hope? Then we'll archive these pages and look for other ways to do effective capacity building. The CCM is an experiment, based on observed needs and an expectation that it would be useful. But we are ready to learn that it may not, and to change course if necessary. Let's give it a shot, though! What if I have another question? Use the talk page! :)

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Invitations: Wikipedia Day Sun. Jan. 14th @ Ace Hotel NYC, & Black History Month Sat. Feb. 24th @ The Schomburg Center - Free
by AfroCROWD 13 Jan '18

13 Jan '18

[1] [2] [3] [4] June 2017 Opportunities & News Learn to edit Wikipedia at these exciting events: "Collecting Resistance: Histories of Social Justice in Detroit" Wikipedia Editathon and Oral History Capture at the Allied Media Conference, Detroit When:Sunday, June 18th, 2017, 10:00 am – 2:30 pm Where: Wayne State University, State Hall Room 137,Detroit, MI Not in Detroit? - No worries, edit with us [5] online AfroCROWD is headed to Detroit for the Allied Media Conference, an exciting gathering of changemakers from all over the country happening June 15-18th at Wayne State university, Detroit, Michigan. Join us in person or [6] onlinefor a Wikipedia learn-to-edit-a-thon and oral history capture focused on curating the history of civil rights and social justice movements in Detroit through firsthand and researched accounts. Afro Free-Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia (AfroCROWD) and the Radical, Libraries, Archives and Museums track (RadLAM) invite participants to share testimonies at an oral history listening Station, or get trained on how to add and edit articles on Wikipedia. Wikipedia coaches and members of RadLAM will be on-hand to help. Learn more about the [7] Allied Media Conference here. *For those attending in person, please bring a laptop and [8] register for a Wikipedia account ahead of the event. You can also edit alongside of us the day of the event via the [9] AfroCROWD Wiki meetup page. [10] Sign Up Other Wikipedia Happenings Flash opportunity to connect with the Hip Hop Hacks community starting this weekend! Hip Hop Hacks Monthly Music Hackathon Saturday June 10, 2017, 12:00 pm - 8:00 pm (wiki workshop 2-4 pm) at Spotify, 45 W 18th St, 3rd Floor Join us on Saturday, June 10th for [11] Hip Hop Hacks at the Monthly Music Hackathonincluding Wikipedia participation in a general hacking event. The theme this time is [12] hip hop. Note that this is a general hackathon and not exclusively a Wikipedia event. There will be a Wikipedia workshop there from 2-4 pm for anyone who wants to learn to edit. Some people at this event are producing audio and wish to share it. Wikipedia editors are invited to help them upload this audio and integrate it into relevant Wikipedia articles. The hackathon is being introduced to us in association with the Wikipedia presentation happening at the [13] International Conference of Auditory Displayin Pennsylvania. Important>> [14] Please sign up so security will let you in![15] [16] Sign Up The Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon NYCwill be held Thursday June 22, 2017at the [17] Museum of Modern Art. Themes for this event include art related to HIV/AIDS activism and on LGBTQ artists of the African Diaspora as part of the [18] Black Lunch Tableproject. This is the third annual Wiki Loves Pride editathon at MoMA - see [19] 2015 editionand [20] 2016 edition. [21] Sign Up Wikimania 2017 Join us! August 9-13, 2017 in Montréal, Canada. Wikimania 2017, the 13th annual international conference of the Wikimedia movement, is being held August 9-13, 2017 in Montréal, Canada. This is an action packed, fun, global conference of all things Wikipedia that is open to the public. Each year the conference is held in a new country. This year, we are happy to have it in our back yard. Whether you actively edit Wikipedia, mostly enjoy reading the content, have thought of doing more with Wikipedia, or are just curious about the free knowledge movement, Wikimania is for you. Learn more about [22] [23] Wikimania 2017 here.More registration information coming soon. WikiConference North America 2017 We are pleased to announce that [24] WikiConference North America 2017will be held in Montrealon Wednesdayand Thursday, August 9-10thas a pre-conference to Wikimania(Friday-Sunday August 11-13th).August 9-10 in Montreal, Canada Wednesday, August 9th:Culture Crawl at various cultural institutions in Montreal. Focus: galleries, libraries, archives, museums, and monuments. Thursday, August 10th:This day will be full of programming, with a keynote, tracks, and lightning talks followed by the official Wikimania kick-off receptionthat evening at the conference venue, Le Centre Sheraton Montreal. Interested in providing feedback and helping make WikiConference great? We've set up a [25] quick feedback formfor you to send us your ideas; also feel free to e-mail us at[26] info(a)wikiconference.org. For more info head to: [27] Website- [28] Twitter- [29] Facebook Don't miss the Wiki-Train! On August 8, Wikimedia New York Cityis planning a [30] Adirondack Wiki-Train Ride, a special pre-conference train ride from New York City to Montreal. This is a day-long train trip mostly through the beautiful Upstate New York countryside (8:15 am - 7:11pm). If you are interested in attending, [31] check out the event page and sign up! We are also working on getting low cost[32] [33] accomodationfor the conference. Right now they are as low as $40/night. Stay tuned. [34] Sign Up Recent Events Brooklyn Library Skillshare In May, AfroCROWD was pleased to participate in the fourth annual Skillshare at the Info Commons of the Brooklyn Library. We joined technologists, designers, and other free culture supporters for a day of learning through workshops, demonstrations and presentations by people from throughout the New York City area. Congratulationsto the Brooklyn Library organizers for another successful event. Join the Global Wikipedia Community today with AfroCROWD! 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9 days left to submit your proposal to WikiIndaba
by abdelwaheb turki 06 Jan '18

06 Jan '18

Dear Mr. or Ms., I thank you for your efforts. Want to share and discuss your Wikimedia experience with African community? Need to have African volunteers involved in your Wikimedia project? Like to explain useful ideas and knowledge to African wikimedians? It is time to do that. In fact, you can easily do that by submitting a proposal to WikiIndaba 2018 in https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2018/Submissions. If you need to have a full or partial scholarship to attend this conference, you can apply to it in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2018/Scholarships. Please keep in mind that you have to submit your proposal and apply for the conference scholarship before or in January 15th, 2018. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki

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Wikimedia Hackathon 2018, Barcelona: Registration open
by Derick N. Alangi 03 Jan '18

03 Jan '18

Dear Wikimedians, Registration and scholarship applications for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2018 are open! The hackathon will be taking place in Barcelona between 18 – 20 May 2018. Scholarship applications are open until January 30, 2018. - Register here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2018/Register_and_Attend - Event details here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2018 Depending on your case and situation (e.g., applying for scholarship), you might need to fill more than one form, please read carefully. Do not hesitate to forward this announcement along to any relevant mailing lists! Looking forward to seeing you in Barcelona!

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