Dear Wikimedians,
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) Campaign [1] is looking for interested Wikimedians to become Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign Ambassadors to help amplify awareness and provide more tailored support to the communities and individuals participating in the 2024 edition of the contest.
We welcome ambassadors who are willing to support the international organizing team in coordinating the project in their communitities and help in bridging language and regional gaps in all formal Wikimedia regions and across languages of participating communities.
Interested individuals should apply at https://forms.gle/1m9hXtYhsnXMDbgB7
Application is accepted until 11th March, 2024.
Kind regards,
Ammar
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Pages_Wanting_Photos_2024
Hello everyone,
Free Knowledge Africa is organising a contest; The 2024 Afrosport Writing
Contest!
Whether you're passionate about football, athletics, traditional games, or
any other sport, this is your chance to showcase your creativity and love
for sports.
Afrosports is an African games and sports writing contest on Wikipedia.
There is a huge content gap on the internet/Wikipedia as regards contents
on African Sports in English and other Languages.
This contest aims to bridge the African Sports content gap on Wikipedia by
writing articles about the historical and contemporary African Sports Scene
focusing on the English Wikipedia and 5 African languages; Wikipedia
(Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba, Swahili and Kinyarwanda.)
This is another opportunity to promote sports in your local community,
write about the favourite games and sports you grew up playing, translate
sport related articles on wikipedia to your local languages, or anything
related to the Sports scene in your country, join us on this exciting
venture!
Come join us on the 15th of March in The Afrosports Writing Contest. There
are amazing prizes to be won and also there will be training sessions.
Register here <https://bit.ly/Afrosport24>
Visit the project page on Meta
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Afrosports_Contest_20…>
to know more about the contest.
Remember, If we don’t write stories about Africa, who will?
Best regards,
Hopeabby
Associate, Free Knowledge Africa (FKA)
Dear Community members,
I hope you're doing well. We're excited to invite you to the upcoming Wiki
Loves Folklore 2024 Office Hour Part Two, where we'll be discussing how to
make our jury processes better.
Event Details:
- Date: March 2nd, 2024
- Time: 4:00 pm UTC https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1709388000
- Where: Zoom
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88637039784?pwd=AIGFVXsrMPB2piCVZ17acvacHuaZgR.1
What's Happening:
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Introduction by Isaac Chabota Kanguya (Communication Officer): Isaac
will start things off with a quick 10-minute talk. He'll explain why having
fair and inclusive jury procedures is important for Wiki Loves Folklore.
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Presentation by Suyash (Jury Coordinator for Wiki Loves Folklore
2024): Next,
Suyash will speak for 20 minutes about "How to Set Up a Good Jury for Wiki
Loves Folklore Photography Contest." He'll help to choose good pictures
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Presentation by Nokib Sarkar (Lead Tool Developer for WLF 2024): Then,
Nokib will talk for 20 minutes about "How We Judge Writing Contests using
Campwiz Tool." He will show how to use the jury functionality in campwiz.
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Questions and Chat Time: After the presentations, we'll have 10 minutes
for you to ask questions and share your thoughts.
We think this event will be really helpful, and we'd love for you to be
there. To save your spot, just click here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Folklore_2024_Office_Hour_2#Part…>
Thanks so much for all your support with Wiki Loves Folklore. We're looking
forward to chatting with you soon!
Best,
Isaac Kanguya
Communication Officer International Team WLF 2024
Dear Organizers/Wikimedians,
We are excited to invite you to participate in this year's Wikiforhumanrights
campaign <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights>. The campaign
will run from May to June 2024 and we would love to have you on board.
On Wed 28th Feb - 3:00 PM UTC, we will be hosting an office hour to support
local organizers and individual participants who are
interested/participating in the campaign this year. During the Regional
office hours you will get to know all about the campaign updates for the
region, learn about available grant support, and how to use the new event
registration tool <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Event_Organizers> as
we pilot it in this year’s campaign.
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Register for the office hour here for more updates: -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:WikiforHumanRights_2024_Africa_Region…
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*Join Via Zoom *- https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/89913611377
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Join the Africa Region Telegram for all organizers for support -
https://t.me/wikiforhumanrights2024Africa
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WikiForHumanRights Telegram Group - https://t.me/+AG0yBeQpjNJhOTkx
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Add your event to the event table as soon as you can-
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Join_Community_Events
To support your participation as an organizer, you can either include your
activity as part of your annual funds program (thus if you have an annual
community support fund) or apply for the next cycle of grant.
If you are applying for rapid grant, kindly note that only cycle 5 is open
before campaign start in May
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Application deadline on *1 April*
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Review time from *2 April - 7 May*
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Decision announced from *11 May*
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Processing and Disbursement from* 12 - 26 May*
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See more here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid#Timeline>*-*
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid#Timeline
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Kindly note that there will not be any global writing contest this year!
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Organizers for this year's Wikiforhumanrights are to pilot the event
registration tool for their event. Find more details here -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Event_Organizers
French
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Chers Wikimédiens,
Nous sommes ravis de vous inviter à participer à la campagne
Wikiforhumanrights de cette année. La campagne se déroulera de mai à juin
2024 et nous serions ravis de vous compter parmi nous.
Le mercredi 28 février, à 15h00 UTC, nous organiserons une heure de bureau
pour soutenir les organisateurs locaux et les participants individuels qui
sont intéressés/participent à la campagne cette année. Au cours de ces
heures de bureau régionales, vous serez informés des mises à jour de la
campagne pour la région, des subventions disponibles et de la manière
d'utiliser le nouvel outil d'enregistrement des événements que nous
pilotons dans le cadre de la campagne de cette année.
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Inscrivez-vous à l'heure de bureau ici :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:WikiforHumanRights_2024_Africa_Region…
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Rejoignez le groupe télégramme de la région Afrique pour tous les
organisateurs afin d'obtenir du soutien :
https://t.me/wikiforhumanrights2024Africa
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Groupe Telegram WikiForHumanRights : https://t.me/+AG0yBeQpjNJhOTkx
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Ajoutez votre événement au tableau des événements dès que possible :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Join_Community_Events
Pour soutenir votre participation en tant qu'organisateur, vous pouvez soit
inclure votre activité dans votre programme de financement annuel (donc si
vous disposez d'un fonds de soutien communautaire annuel), soit faire une
demande de subvention pour le prochain cycle.
Si vous demandez une subvention rapide, veuillez noter que seul le cycle 5
est ouvert avant le début de la campagne en mai.
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Date limite de dépôt des demandes : 1er avril
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Examen du 2 avril au 7 mai
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Annonce de la décision à partir du 11 mai
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Traitement et décaissement du 12 au 26 mai
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Plus d'informations ici :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid#Timeline
NB :
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Veuillez noter qu'il n'y aura pas de concours international d'écriture
cette année !
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Les organisateurs de Wikiforhumanrights de cette année doivent piloter
l'outil d'enregistrement d'événement pour leur événement. Plus de détails
ici : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Event_Organizers
Please help spread the information in your communities.
Best regards,
On Behalf or WFHR Regional Coordination Team
Dear all,
I'm excited to announce that the Wikimedia movement will once again be
represented at the Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum.
This is a major regional forum in which digital policies and internet
governance in Africa are debated and shaped, and participants and attendees
forge partnerships for action. It will take place in Accra, Ghana, from*
April 23-25th*. Register now
<https://whova.com/portal/registration/draif_202404/> so you can join
virtually!
We showed up big last year in East Africa - you can read about Wikimedians'
experiences in this blog post
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/06/01/takeaways-from-digital-rights-and-inc…>.
We're hoping to do the same in West Africa. Wikimedians have many lessons
to share around the conference theme of "fostering rights and inclusion in
the digital age." Don't miss these sessions:
1.
Faire résonner les voix : l'inclusion des Femmes ouest africaines dans
lesProjets Wikimedia, ft. @Adjovi Essenam FUMEY <essenam.fumey(a)gmail.com>
@Fatima Oury SOW GUEYE <fatimaourysow(a)gmail.com>
@franckakouete95@gmail.com <franckakouete95(a)gmail.com>
@beckyelsie@yahoo.fr <beckyelsie(a)yahoo.fr>
2.
Connect the Unconnected: Strengthening Women’s Access to Rural Broadband
Connectivity in Africa, ft. @Sandra Aceng <sandraaceng(a)gmail.com>, @Eugene
Masiku <emasiku(a)ofwafrica.org> and more.
3.
An Internet for and by the people: What we gain when we treat the
internet as a shared public good, ft. @Sandister Tei <stei(a)wikimedia.org>,
@Kwaku Addo Ofori <kofori(a)wikimedia.org> and more.
4.
Fostering Trust Online in the Year of Democracy: Lessons on Combatting
Disinformation on Wikipedia ft. @Felix Nartey
<fnartey(a)wikimedia.org>, @Abigail
Adu-Daako <aadudaako(a)wikimedia.org> and others.
We hope you'll help cheer us on virtually and make some noise on social
media. More information to come over the next few months.
Warmly,
Ziski
Franziska Putz (she/her)
Senior Movement Advocacy Manager
Global Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation
Fputz(a)wikimedia.org
UTC Timezone
Hello, African Wikimedians, I'm new to this list, so I hope this message is
appropriate here. Have a great week!
*TL;DR*
[EN] Are you organizing activities around International Women's Day or
Women's History Month this March 2024? Did you know that there is a central
page where you can showcase your campaigns and learn about what other
Wikimedians are doing globally? Let's chat! Join the Celebrate Women
conversation hour on Monday, February 19th, 2024 at 16:30 UTC.
➡️
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Celebrate_Women_2024_conversation_hour
. Language interpretation will be available - English, Spanish, French, and
Portuguese
[FR] Organisez-vous des activités à l’occasion de la Journée internationale
de la femme en 2024 ? Saviez-vous qu’une page centrale est disponible pour
présenter vos campagnes et découvrir les initiatives des autres membres de
la communauté Wikimédia à travers le monde ? Parlons-en ! Rejoignez-nous
pour l’heure de conversation « Celebrate Women » le lundi 19 février 2024 à
16h30 UTC.
➡️
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Celebrate_Women_2024_conversation_hour.
(Des
services d’interprétation seront disponibles en anglais, espagnol,
portugais et français).
[PT] Você está organizando atividades relacionadas ao Dia Internacional da
Mulher em 2024? Sabia que existe uma página central onde você pode incluir
suas campanhas e saber o que outras pessoas da comunidade Wikimedia estão
planejando globalmente? Vamos conversar! Celebremos as Mulheres:
segunda-feira, 19 de fevereiro de 2024, às 16:30 UTC. Registre-se e receba
o link do Zoom ➡️
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Celebrate_Women_2024_conversation_hour.
(Haverá interpretação: inglês, espanhol, português e francês).
To respond to the gender gap and create opportunities to grow content on
women and non-binary people on Wikipedia, the Gender Organizing community
in the Wikimedia Movement hosts an annual campaign every March called Celebrate
Women <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celebrate_Women>. This campaign is
an important opportunity for the Wikimedia movement to engage with the work
of different communities highlighting the gender gap in each Wikimedia
project.
The WMF Campaign Programs team is supporting the movement’s efforts in this
area, working with seasoned organizers to advance coordination of efforts
to #ChangetheStats on gender in the movement.
We would like to invite you to this Celebrate Women 2024 conversation hour
to:
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Share what your community is doing for this year in campaign organizing
on the Gender Gap during International Women’s Day and beyond.
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Learn about this year’s volunteer-led Central Notice banner and calendar
and how you can give feedback on the pages.
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Learn how the event registration tool
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EventCenter/Registration/Instructions>
can help improve your registration experience for newcomers joining events,
and other exciting developments in the tools to support your campaign, like
event invitation.
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Learn about some of the work that has taken place to enhance gender
equity in the movement of the past few months!
Join us on February 19 at 16:30 UTC
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Celebrate_Women_2024_conversation_hour>
(check your local time here) at the Conversation Hour (Zoom link to be
shared upon registration on the link above). Interpretation will be
available - English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese
Best regards,
*Tila Cappelletto *(she/ela/ella)
Senior Program Officer, Gender Organizing
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
*Let's talk? https://calendly.com/tila_wmf/meeting
<https://calendly.com/tila_wmf/meeting>*
Languages: [Pt-br-N] [Esp-4] [Eng-3] [Ita-2]
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Support Wikimedia
<https://donate.wikimedia.org/>
Dear Wikimedians,
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) Campaign [1] is looking for
interested Wikimedians to become Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign
Ambassadors to help amplify awareness and provide more tailored support to
the communities and individuals participating in the 2024 edition of the
contest.
We welcome ambassadors who are willing to support the international
organizing team in coordinating the project in their communities and help
in bridging language and regional gaps in all formal Wikimedia regions and
across languages of participating communities.
Interested individuals should apply at https://forms.gle/1m9hXtYhsnXMDbgB7
Application is accepted until 11th March, 2024.
Kind regards,
Ammar
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Pages_Wanting_Photos_2024
Dear Wikimedians,
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) Campaign [1] is looking for interested Wikimedians to become Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign Ambassadors to help amplify awareness and provide more tailored support to the communities and individuals participating in the 2024 edition of the contest.
We welcome ambassadors who are willing to support the international organizing team in coordinating the project in their communitities and help in bridging language and regional gaps in all formal Wikimedia regions and across languages of participating communities.
Interested individuals should apply at https://forms.gle/1m9hXtYhsnXMDbgB7
Application is accepted until 11th March, 2024.
Kind regards,
Ammar
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Pages_Wanting_Photos_2024