Hi Wikimedians,
*Gentle Reminder*
This is an open invitation to our CfA WIRs meetup scheduled for tomorrow,
Tuesday, May 16, 2023, at 1:00p.m WAT.
The distinguished speaker for the event is Ruby Dankwah, Senior Programs
Officer at Open Foundation West Africa.
She will be delighted to enlighten us on the process of organizing work
sessions for various Wikimedia projects.
Please refer to the session details below:
• Topic: Organizing Work Sessions on a Wikimedia Project
• Date: May 16, 2023
• Time: 13:00 GMT+1
• Location:https://bit.ly/WIR-eng
We eagerly anticipate your presence at the session.
Feel free to reach out to me if you have any inquiries.
Warm Regards,
--
Bukola James
Dear African Wikimedians,
On behalf of Wikimedia Usergroup Kenya
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Kenya>, I
am happy to announce to you that Kenya has submitted a bid to host
Wikimania 2025
<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania:Expressions_of_Interest/2025…>
As most of you might be aware, as Wikimania resumes to in person
conference; the hosting will be done regionally. Consequently, Kenya,
Tanzania and Rwanda were the only African countries that showed interest in
hosting Wikimania before 2027.
Following joint conversations and seeing that Wikimania 2024 will be hosted
in Poland (Europe), Rwanda and Tanzania opted to support Kenya’s bid to
host Wikimania in 2025.
This is our chance as African Wikimedians to host Wikimania, which has only
been hosted once before in Africa; Cape Town, South Africa in 2018 we are
calling upon you to help make this a reality by endorsing our bid here
<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania:Expressions_of_Interest/2025…>
.
Kind Regards,
Carol Mwaura
On behalf of Wikimedia Usergroup Kenya
Hello Wikimedians,
You are invited to the Africa Day Campaign 2023!!!
In line with the African Union Day theme that seeks to document Africa’s
stories to increase the visibility of stories around Africa’s free trade, the
African Knowledge Initiative (AKI)
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Knowledge_Initiative> seeks to leverage
Wikimedia tools and platforms to breed innovative solutions to bridging the
content gap on global digital knowledge networks.
This initiative will be implemented through Open Foundation West Africa's
annual campaign, the Africa Wiki Challenge.
This year the Africa Wiki Challenge presents the Africa Day Campaign
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Day_Campaign_2023>, which aligns
with the African Union Day's theme of stories around Africa’s free trade
agenda, challenges, and benefits, among others.
Are you ready to contribute your quota in bridging the content gap on
Wikipedia??
Join the launch as an individual, group, organizer, participant, or
spectator as we officially launch the Africa Day Campaign globally !!!
*Theme: African Continental Free Trade*
Date: *Thursday 18th of May, 2023*
Time: *03:00 pm UTC*
*To confirm your attendance, kindly register by clicking the link below*
https://bit.ly/3O21U2O
<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F3O21U2O%3Ffbclid%3DIw…>
*For more information visit the Africa Day MetaPage*
https://bit.ly/3VzZKcD
<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F3VzZKcD%3Ffbclid%3DIw…>
For inquiries kindly reach out to: info(a)ofwafrica.org
Make it a point to be there!
--
Eugene Makafui Masiku,
Communications Officer
Open Foundation West Africa
Dear African Wikimedians,
On 20 April 2023, the Gungbe Wikinews subdomain (guw.wikinews.org) was
created thus becoming the first and only indigenous African language with a
Wikinews subdomain.
As a pilot Wikinews in an African language, I plan to make it successful by
leading a drive to increase contributions, recruit and train editors. An
interesting part of my proposal is the drive to add audio spoken news to
the news articles for the not-so-literate and visually impaired.
I am inviting all African Wikimedians to go through my grant proposal[1]
and endorse it.
Regards,
Samuel
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/Ra…
Dear African Wikimedians,
On 20 April 2023, the Gungbe Wikinews subdomain (guw.wikinews.org) was
created thus becoming the first and only indigenous African language with a
Wikinews subdomain.
As a pilot Wikinews in an African language, I plan to make it successful by
leading a drive to increase contributions, recruit and train editors. An
interesting part of my proposal is the drive to add audio spoken news to
the news articles for the not-so-literate and visually impaired.
I am inviting all African Wikimedians to go through my grant proposal[1]
and endorse it.
Regards,
Samuel
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/Ra…
Dear African Wikimedians,
On 20 April 2023, the Gungbe Wikinews subdomain (guw.wikinews.org) was
created thus becoming the first and only indigenous African language with a
Wikinews subdomain.
As a pilot Wikinews in an African language, I plan to make it successful by
leading a drive to increase contributions, recruit and train editors. An
interesting part of my proposal is the drive to add audio spoken news to
the news articles for the not-so-literate and visually impaired.
I am inviting all African Wikimedians to go through my grant proposal[1]
and endorse it.
Regards,
Samuel
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/Ra…