Greetings ,
Hope all of you doing well in life and are having a good time with Wiki Loves Africa competition. I am writing to all in reference of usage of "Montage Tool" for WLA 2019.
First, I like to thank the National Coordinators of Zambia, Ghana, Guinée for signing up to have the montage tool for their respective country.
National Coordinators who like to setup the Montage tool for their respective country kindly sign up on the below link at an earliest time and date.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Montage#Montage_and_Wiki_Lo…
Disclaimer:-
Anyone not using the Montage Tool, you can still work without it and do let us know.
For any query whatsoever do contact me at an earliest time and date.
Best regards,
Rajeeb Dutta.
Member of Continental Organizing
Team WLA 2019.
Hello,
Following the terrible news of the natural disasters in Mozambique, I
looked at which languages are spoken there.
As in many other African countries, the official language is a European
one, Portuguese. There's a large Wikipedia in it, but less than half of the
people in Mozambique actually know it (according to Ethnologue,
https://www.ethnologue.com/country/MZ/languages ).
I could find only one native languages of Mozambique in which there is a
Wikipedia: Tsonga. This Wikipedia is very small, but it has a small group
of dedicated editors.
All the other languages of Mozambique don't have any Wikipedia at all:
Makhuwa, Lomwe, Tswa, Mwera, and others. They don't even have an Incubator.
So, this is a very long shot, but I'll mention this anyway: If, in the wake
of this catastrophe, or at any other point and for whatever reason, someone
raises the idea of writing Wikipedia articles in any of these languages,
please remember that the fact that there is no Wikipedia or incubator in
them *now* is not an excuse for not doing it. Anyone who can write in them
can be the first person to do it. An Incubator can be created at any point
in any language, and I'll be happy to assist anyone who is interested in
doing this.
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Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
Dear colleagues,
I am excited to forward you some of the latest news from the Movement
Strategy Process. Looking forward to your engagement, integrating your
perspectives and building the future structures of Wikimedia together.
Have a great week ahead!
Kaarel
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From: Nicole Ebber <nicole.ebber(a)wikimedia.de>
Date: Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 12:43 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] [Movement Strategy] Your perspectives are needed to
scope our future.
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear fellow Wikimedians,
In 2017, we set ourselves an ambitious goal of becoming the essential
infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge, and now we need a
path for how we get there. In the spirit of what got us started – we
will work together to find our path.
We now have a fundamental tool in place to help us get there: scoping
documents have been finalized and are now live on Meta[1]. These will
help us dive deeper into our movement’s structures than ever before
and discover exciting opportunities for our future.
The scoping documents have been created by the nine working groups of
the Movement Strategy Process. I would like to thank them
wholeheartedly for their enormous effort and dedication to making this
first step happen.[2]
These documents are a focused reflection of the discussions about our
future that have been happening for some time. The working groups have
captured these and boiled them down into a set of questions that will
guide their work going forward. These are the essential questions of
our movement. Now, we have the chance – and the mandate – to answer
them together.
Identifying how we need to adapt our structures and maximizing our
movement’s potential lie at the heart of these questions. We encourage
you to read the scoping documents about the topics you care about and
bring your ideas for possible solutions in to the the global
conversation about our future. The documents have been translated into
eight languages already, and we are working on translating more of our
meta content into more languages over the next couple of weeks.
I would also like to introduce a new addition to the core team, our
Community Relations Specialist Kelsi Stine-Rowe. Kelsi will be working
with members of Wikimedia communities and organized groups to
facilitate community conversations on the scoping documents.
Join in! Here’s how can you get involved:
* Sign up as a Strategy Liaison for your organized group and ensure
that your group’s perspectives are heard.[3]
* Take part in our community conversations happening until mid-April
on Meta, via survey, and within several communities.[4]
Kelsi will also be in touch later today with more concrete information
about joining the community conversations.
We look forward to hearing your voices and your perspectives.
Best wishes,
Nicole
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Partici…
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working…
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/People/…
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/2019_Co…
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Nicole Ebber
Adviser International Relations
Program Manager Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
https://wikimedia.de
Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissen der
Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns
dabei! https://spenden.wikimedia.de
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V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts
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anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin,
Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
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*Kaarel Vaidla*
Process Architect for
Wikimedia Movement Strategy
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Dear national coordinators,
Thank you for the wonderful work done in the past weeks organizing an
amazing competition in more than 50 countries! We have seen amazing images
being submitted
This year Wiki Loves Africa competition will be based on a federalized
model: there's a national competition in each country, with a national
organizing team, a national jury and national winners. The national jury
determines up to (maximum) 10 images that will be submitted to the
international finale.
These ten images should be submitted via email to the wiki loves africa
jury coordinator before the deadline:18th April 2019.
When submitting your finalists, please take these instructions into account:
* Submit no more than ten images per (national) competition. It is OK to
submit less images, for example if you don't find enough images of high
quality.
* Submit the images to: erinamukuta(a)gmail.com, and include in the CC at
least one (additional) jury member besides yourself. Please also include
marajozkee(a)gmail.com in the cc.
* If the results are still not public (if you plan to announce them later
publicly), please add the planned announcement date. Please note that we
will announce the international winners in June.
* Submit for each image: URL, File name on Wikimedia Commons and Author
username
* Check basic information about the images:
** that the author has activated their email function on Wikimedia Commons (
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser)
** that the image is freely licensed
*If you want to use the jury tool, please sign up for it(
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Montage#Montage_and_Wiki_Lo…
)
Thanks a lot for your cooperation. .
With warm regards,
*Erina Mukuta*Wiki Loves Africa Jury Coordinator
Please i wanted to know if i won the competition.
On Mar 16, 2019 04:32, "ike yeb" <iympaapa1998(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I wanted to know if i won the competition
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Hi all,
I hope you are all doing fine.
This is an invitation to join our editathon next weekend from the 22nd to the 24th of March, to write and improve Wikipedia Content related to LGBTQ+ communities in the MENA region and African content.
Please check the meta page to find out about the topics we want to write about exactly, and also the resources section where you will find many references and other tools that can help you when editing about this theme.
We count on your participation to help reducing the language gap existing in Wikipedia when it comes to LGBTQ+ content, and to give more visibility of the movements resisting and trying to make a change in the communities.
Please feel free to reach out to me for more questions or request.
Thank you so much.
Best regards,
Houssem
Hi,
Is there anyone on this list who knows the Kinyarwanda language?
Or do you know anyone who can read and write Kinyarwanda?
I'd like to ask you a few questions related to the support of the
Kinyarwanda language in Wikimedia sites.
Thanks! :)
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Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore