African-Wikimedians July 2018

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Re: [African Wikimedians] Contents of African-Wikimedians digest, Wiki-Indaba Steering Committee
by Isaac Olatunde 14 Jul '18

14 Jul '18

Hi Folks at WIScom, It's been more than two weeks since Ingo requested clarifications on the structure of the steering committee. Can someone from the committee respond to these request for clarification? It's unwise to keep mute when a legitimate questions are asked. I look forward to reading your response. Thank you, Isaac On Jun 21, 2018 8:55 AM, "Ingo Koll" <ikoll(a)gmx.de> wrote: > *Proposed composition of the Steering Committee * > > I read https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Indaba. The proposed > composition of the Steering Committee is not clear. And the language is not > clear in several points. > > - Page says: "made up of a representative of all past organizers of > Wiki Indaba" - this is ONE representative of (all? selected by whom?) past > organizers. > - Page says: "Country Representation (Previous Organizers of the > Conference)" - does this mean ALL, thus a steadily growing number year > after year? Up to which number? > - office terms - has this been decided this way by the last > Wikiindaba? Otherwise it does not look wise to fix the periods for "country > representatives" and "volunteers" in this way. If ever for some reason a > Wikiindaba has to be cancelled, resulting in a year without WikiIndaba, the > committee can reach its defined time limit. To me it looks wiser to state a > period until the coming one or two Wikiindabas. > - Page says: "The role of the volunteer coordinator spans a tenure of > one and half years maximum. This role is automatically awarded to the best > candidate during the application process." What does this mean? A > "volunteer coordinator" is not defined anywhere. How does something happen > "automatically"? What automat finds out "the best" and by what criteria?? > - Page says: "The term of office is 2 years after which their > organisation can have new elections to select a rep" - so if the > "organisation" (elsewhere the language is "affiliate") has no new election? > > Appreciate any clarification. Cheers Kipala > > > Send African-Wikimedians mailing list submissions to > african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > african-wikimedians-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > african-wikimedians-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of African-Wikimedians digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Wiki-Indaba Steering Committee (WISCom) (Florence Devouard) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > African-Wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians > >

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Re: [African Wikimedians] [Wikimedia-l] WikiConference North America 2018: Proposals and Scholarships now open
by Derick N. Alangi 14 Jul '18

14 Jul '18

Updates!!! On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 2:25 AM Kevin Payravi <kevinpayravi(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On behalf of the WikiConference North America organizing team, I'm pleased > to announce that proposal submissions and scholarship applications are now > open! Both are due by August 15. > > WikiConference North America 2018 is taking place in Columbus, Ohio, from > October 18-21. Our host is the Ohio State University Libraries, which > provides a great opportunity to work with the local libraries and cultural > institutions. > > For submissions, we are looking forward to seeing proposals for > presentations, workshops, roundtables, panels, and more. We also have an > academic peer review track this year. > > Scholarship applications are open to Wikimedians who live in North America > and actively contribute to a Wikimedia project. Scholarship awards are $500 > USD. The Wiki Education Foundation is also providing their own scholarships > for presenters participating in the academic peer review option. > > Visit our website for more information and to submit: > https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2018/Main_Page > > Thank you, > Kevin Payravi > SuperHamster on Wikimedia > _______________________________________________ > 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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Fwd: Making Wiki Loves Monuments thrive in Africa
by Lodewijk 12 Jul '18

12 Jul '18

Hi everyone, I'm Lodewijk and one of the organizers of Wiki Loves Monuments in the international team. We have been looking for more ways to make Wiki Loves Monuments an even greater success in Africa! If you're interested in helping Wiki Loves Monuments be more of a success in Africa by sharing or learning, and if you're participating in Wikimania this year, I would suggest that you consider joining the 'Making Wiki Loves Monuments thrive in Africa' meetup on Saturday during Wikimania, from 18:00-19:00. See for more information here: https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Effeietsanders/Make_Wiki_Love… You can also sign up there, so that we know what and who to expect :) If you can't be there, you can still leave some suggestions or thoughts on that page to consider. Best, Lodewijk

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Fwd: New GLAM and Underrepresented Heritage role at the Wikimedia Foundation
by Alex Stinson 11 Jul '18

11 Jul '18

Hi all, This job is very relevant to organizers and community members on the African and Indian lists, and the WikiSource community. Do try to share the listing with folks you think would be interested. Cheers, Alex ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 5:00 PM Subject: New GLAM and Underrepresented Heritage role at the Wikimedia Foundation To: Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination < cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch>, "Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public]" < glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, North American Cultural Partnerships < glam-us(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia & Libraries < libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi All, I am really excited to share with you the opening of a new job working within the Programs Team at the Wikimedia Foundation: a Program Officer focused on GLAM and Underrepresented Heritage. As part of orienting our team to better support the Wikimedia Movement direction, we hope this role can help us to better support tactics and strategies that are becoming important among emerging communities wanting to get involved in GLAM programs -- including, for example, leveraging digitization, WikiSource and Wiki Loves type events to document marginalized knowledge. They will be working closely with our existing GLAM team, including Alex Stinson and Sandra Fauconnier, to document and expand the impact of GLAM partnership in the movement, and to help us advance the larger Equity and Infrastructure goals of the movement direction. We also hope that this role helps our team build increased depth of experience with Wikimedia communities outside of North America and Europe, where existing GLAM communities have a strong community of practice and from which Sandra and Alex (and Ben, the Programs team director) have deep backgrounds. If you know someone who is enthusiastic about or has deep experience facilitating GLAM-Wiki or similar community initiatives, please share the job announcement with them: https://boards.greenhouse.io/ wikimedia/jobs/1236692 Cheers, Alex -- Alex Stinson GLAM-Wiki Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM -- Alex Stinson GLAM-Wiki Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM

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Inspire Campaign on Measuring Community Health starts today!
by Sydney Poore 09 Jul '18

09 Jul '18

Hello Wikimedians in Africa :-) I'm happy to announce the launch of the Inspire Campaign on Measuring Community Health.[1] The goal of this campaign is to gather your ideas on approaches to measure or evaluate the experience and quality of participating and interacting with others in Wikimedia projects. So what is community health? Healthy projects promote high quality content creation, respectful collaboration, efficient workflows, and effective conflict resolution. Tasks and experiences that result in patterns of editor frustration, poor editor retention, harassment, broken workflows, and unresolved conflicts are unhealthy for a project. As a movement, Wikimedians have always measured aspects of their communities. Data points, such as editor activity levels, are regularly collected. While these metrics provide some useful indications about the health of a project, they do not give major insights into challenges and specific areas needing improvement or what areas have been successful. We want to hear from you what specific areas on your Wikimedia project should be evaluated or measured, and how it should be done. Share your ideas, contribute to other people’s submissions, and get involved in the new Inspire Campaign. After the campaign, grants and other paths are available to support the formal development of these measures and evaluation techniques.[2] Warm regards, Sydney [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Develop-- -- Sydney Poore Trust and Safety Specialist Wikimedia Foundation Trust and Safety team; Anti-harassment tools team

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WikiFundi V2 : your attention please :)
by Florence Devouard 09 Jul '18

09 Jul '18

Hello everyone We are working very hard to make a demo/testing V2 version of WikiFundi available at Wikimania. This time, there will be several release options. Some will include only WikiFundi and WikiFundi related resources (that minimal version that should fit on a 24 or 32 GB card. We will put both English and French versions on those. But one type will come up with a overarching interface in French, whilst the other type will come up with overaching interface in English). We have a budget to provide a certain number of those cards to the wikimedia communities. We will provide those for free (within budget...) Others release will include a more complete version with WikiFundi and several resources (such as offline Wikipedia, Wikiquote, wikisource, Wiktionary, Vikidia in French, WikiMed, the French Wikimooc videos...) but those will come either * only in French (content, interface, wikifundi software), * or only in English (content, interface, wikifundi software) Those versions will fit on bigger cards. The English is likely to fit in a 128 GB, which is more difficult to find and more expensive. The French perhaps on a 64 GB. Cards have not been done yet, so we are not completely sure :) Those versions are not available for free (should you be interested, you need to provide the card or the cost of the card + shipping costs if it needs to be shipped). I will provide more info about this just before Wikimania. I propose to come to Wikimania with some cards with the *WikiFundi only versions* that will come to replace the version 1. I actually need to purchase the cards... today or tomorrow at latest :) *If you are interested by a card with a simple WikiFundi V2 version , please drop me an email (Tanzania and Uganda, I already counted you in). * As a reminder for newcomers... WikiFundi works with a raspberry PI 3. If you already have one, you simply need to get a new card to get the thing working on your usual Raspberry PI 3. If you do NOT have a raspberry PI 3, you will need to get one. In any cases, I will come to Wikimania with a whole set for demo purposes. Flo

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African language Wikipedia update
by Ian Gilfillan 03 Jul '18

03 Jul '18

Hi Here's my latest African language Wikipedia update: http://www.greenman.co.za/blog/?p=2244

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Fwd: [Wikimediafr] 4 juillet Premier éditathon pour les sans pagEs Méditerranée à Marseille
by Florence Devouard 03 Jul '18

03 Jul '18

Bonjour aux francophones :) C'est pour information. La suite de nos nouvelles aventures "genre/femmes" en région Méditerranée. A défaut d'être avec nous... n'hésitez pas à jeter un coup d'oeil et à compléter notre liste de travail https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Les_sans_pagEs/Méditerranée#Liste_de_t… A quand la suite sur la rive sud ? Florence -------- Message transféré -------- Sujet : [Wikimediafr] 4 juillet Premier éditathon pour les sans pagEs Méditerranée à Marseille Date : Tue, 03 Jul 2018 01:11:11 +0200 De : Natacha Rault via Wikimediafr <wikimediafr(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Répondre à : Natacha Rault <n.rault(a)me.com>, Wikimedia France public mailing list <wikimediafr(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Pour : Wikimedia France public mailing list <wikimediafr(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Bonsoir, Après avoir présenté le projet des sans pagEs à Marseille le 20 juin dernier, nous lançons une première session de contributions des sans pagEs Méditérranée à Marseille ce mercredi 4 juillet dès 9h30. Nous terminerons par un repas convivial à midi. Ces rencontres qui auront lieu une fois par mois auront pour but de réduire le fossé des genres, et nous avons préparé une liste de femmes remarquables marseillaises. Plus d’informations sont disponibles sur la page du projet ici: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Les_sans_pagEs/Méditerranée#4_juillet_… »sans_pagEs_Méditerranée" <https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Les_sans_pagEs/M%C3%A9diterran%C3%A9e#…> Pour s’inscrire c’est par ici: (vous pouvez participer à distance): https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Les_sans_pagEs_Med/Les_sans_p… L’association les sans pagEs peut défrayer votre trajet, à condition de lui fournir les justificatifs et de faire un compte rendu sur le projet des sans pagEs dans la section « actualités ». Pour plus d’information me contacter par mail. Bonne nuit! Nattes à chat, Anthere, Sophiedidacressources

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Wiki Loves Women to launch in Tanzania and Uganda
by Isla Haddow Flood 01 Jul '18

01 Jul '18

Dear African Wikimedians After the 4 highly successful interventions in Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Nigeria, Anthere and I are very excited to announce that the Wiki Loves Women project will soon be launched in both Tanzania and Uganda after being funded through the WMF's Project Grant program. We are very excited to be joined by the following team members that will be part of the project in these countries: Tanzania Team leader: Maryam Mgonja (assisted by Iddy) Training events manager: Antoni Mtavangu (assisted by Iddy) Database manager: Maryam Mgonja (assisted by Iddy) Content manager: Antoni Mtavangu(assisted by Iddy) Marketing manager: Maryam Mgonja (assisted by Antoni) Media communications and liaison at a local and the national level: Iddy John (assisted by Antoni) Partner liaison: Iddy John (assisted by Maryam) Uganda Team leader.: Douglas Ssebaggala Training events manager - Erina Mukuta Database manager -Alice Kibombo Content manager -Ivan Mulumba & Alice Kibombo Marketing manager - Kateregga Geoffrey and Steve Bukulu Media communications and liaison - Kateregga Geoffrey and Steve Bukulu Partner liaison- Douglas Ssebaggala You can read more about the project here: http://www.wikiloveswomen.org/2018/06/19/wiki-loves-women-launch-tanzania-u… Over the course of the project, there will be several opportunities for global and continental engagement with the project. Follow the project's actions and the global drives via these social media links: www.wikiloveswomen.org www.facebook.com/wikiloveswomen twitter.com/wikiloveswomen Thank you so much! warmest Isla and Florence Isla Haddow-Flood Co-project Director Username: Islahaddow

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