*Dear Wikimedia community,On behalf of this year’s Wikimania programme
committee,we are pleased to announce that Wikimania 2018, is now accepting
proposals for workshops, discussions, presentations, or research posters to
give during the conference. To read the full instructions visit the event
wiki and click on the link provided
there:https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions
<https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions>Whether you are a
community member of one of the Wikimedia projects, or a fellow open content
creator or consumer, we welcome your proposal for a session. Please forward
this information to others you think might be interested in
presenting.Deadline for submissions is 23:59 UTC on Sunday March 18, 2018.
This is approximately 6 weeks away.ThemeThis year, the conference will be
taking place in Cape Town, South Africa, where the organisers are giving
this Wikimania an unique flavor—an explicit theme based in African
philosophy: “Bridging knowledge gaps, the ubuntu way forward.”Read more
about this theme, why it was chosen, what it means for the conference
program, at the Wikimedia blog
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/02/05/wikimania-cape-town-ubuntu/>.Throughout
the conference program, this theme will be tightly held, but loosely
defined - in order to encourage a diverse range of responses to the theme.
It is our hope that this change will give us the opportunity to further our
goal of creating the “sum of human knowledge”, by encouraging greater
diversity and inclusion in who participates, and what we discuss, at
Wikimania.To learn more, and to make a proposal for Wikimania Cape Town
2018, please visit:https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions
<https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions>Sincerely, Program
committee co-chairs Emna Mizouni, Felix Nartey, and Liam Wyatt.*
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Emna Mizouni
Carthagina President
GLAM coordinator and Spokesperson - Wikimedia TN User Group
Member - Affiliations Committee - Wikimedia Movement
*Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
https://donate.wikimedia.org <https://donate.wikimedia.org>*
Dear all,
In the year 2016, the Wikimediq UG Nigeria started the initiative to
establish Wikimedia Fan Club in all the major tertiary institutions in
Nigeria to deepen the understanding of wikipedia among Nigerian students .
We are glad to inform you that University of Ilorin from North Central of
Nigeria has officially registered Wikimedia Fan Club to organize all
Wikimedia related activities in the university campus.
This milestone was crystallised by Daniel Obiokeke (user: Danidamiobi) and
his team from University of Ilorin with the help from Wikimedia User
Join me to thank them for the excellent work.
Regards
Olaniyan Olushola
CEO - Data Access Systems Ltd
President- WUGN
Treasurer- FOSSFA
Member, Affiliations Committee (Affcom)
Mobile +2348167352512 (Nigeria)
Email: Olaniyanshola15(a)gmail.com
Treasurer(a)fossfa.net
Twitter: Oluwanishola73
Skype: Ozone734
Facebook: Olaniyan Shola
User: Olaniyan Olushola
Hello everyone
We submitted a grant request for Wiki Loves Women in Tanzania and Uganda
this year.
If you are interested by the topic, please consider reading what we
propose for this new episode :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wiki_In_Africa/Wiki_Loves_Wo…
And if you are supportive, please take a couple of minutes to endorse it ;)
All my best
Florence