African-Wikimedians February 2025

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You're Invited: Wiki Ọ̀tọ̀ Online Launch!
by Lucy Iwuala 25 Feb '25

25 Feb '25

[image: WhatsApp Image 2025-02-25 at 15.39.24_d8b1d81b.jpg] Dear Wikimedians, We're excited to invite you to the *Online Launch of Wiki Ọ̀tọ̀*, a new campaign initiated by the Wiki Loves Women's Focus Group! Wiki Ọ̀tọ̀, meaning *UNIQUE* in Yoruba, aims to foster a learning-by-practicing approach. Join us to learn more about this innovative initiative! *Event Details:* - Date: March 1, 2025 - Time: 6:00 pm UTC - Duration: 90 minutes - Language: English and French Register now and mark your calendars! <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Wiki_OTO_Launch> Learn more about the Focus Group <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Women/Focus_Group/Members> We look forward to seeing you there! Best regards, Wiki Loves Ọ̀tọ̀ Organizing Team

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...and let the Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 contest START!
by Dr Tesleemah Abdulkareem 25 Feb '25

25 Feb '25

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Fwd: [Wikidata] Re: Register to the Wikidata Data Reuse Days, starting next week!
by Mohammed Sadat Abdulai 24 Feb '25

24 Feb '25

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Léa Lacroix <lea.lacroix_ext(a)wikimedia.de> Date: Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 9:09 AM Subject: [Wikidata] Re: Register to the Wikidata Data Reuse Days, starting next week! To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hello everyone, We just had a great first week of the *Data Reuse Days 2025 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Data_Reuse_Days_2025>*, our online event focusing on *how people and organizations use Wikidata's data to build interesting applications and tools*. The event is continuing this week until February 28th. Here’s how to catch up on what you may have missed, and join the participants for the upcoming sessions. *Watch or rewatch past sessions*: in the program <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Data_Reuse_Days_2025#Sessions> table, you will find all the sessions that already took place, with a link to the Youtube recording, and the slides if the speaker already uploaded them. We will also upload the videos to Wikimedia Commons in the upcoming weeks. *What’s coming next*: there are still plenty of interesting presentations coming up this week! The live sessions start every day at 17:00 UTC. - Today, Monday 24th: Helping AI learn from Wikidata and Model Context Protocol for Wikidata - Tuesday 25th: Wikidata Query Service updates, Using Wikidata to provide background information to application users and WikiFlix - Wednesday 26th: Application showcase: AletheiaFact, KDE Itinerary, Vglist, Paulina and Scribe - Thursday 27th: Wikidata’s Role in Open Library Author Pages and Data round-tripping with authority files - Friday 28th: open slots to rewatch some sessions together *How to attend*: if you want to join the Jitsi room in order to interact with speakers and other participants, you can register on the event page <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:RegisterForEvent/1050> in order to unlock access to the Jitsi link. You can also watch the livestream on Youtube, you will find the links in the program table. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to write on the talk page or to reach out to me directly. We hope you’re enjoying the event! Best, Léa On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 at 09:17, Léa Lacroix <lea.lacroix_ext(a)wikimedia.de> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Our upcoming online event, the *Data Reuse Days 2025 > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Data_Reuse_Days_2025>*, is starting > next week, on February 18th! > > The event will be focusing on *how people and organizations use > Wikidata's data to build interesting applications and tools*. It aims to > bring together data reusers and editors to learn from each other and > discover cool Wikidata-powered applications. We will also cover technical > aspects of Wikidata and share research and ideas for the future of reusing > Wikidata’s data. > > The event is taking place online, we will have sessions taking place > during *periods of 2 hours through 8 days, from February 18 to 27, 2025*. > You will be able to join sessions live, or to watch the replay later on. > The sessions take place in English, and are open to everyone interested in > the topic of data reuse. You can look at *the program > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Data_Reuse_Days_2025#Sessions>* to > discover the many topics we will touch during the event: introduction > sessions, livecoding, application showcase sessions, AI and LLMs, updates > about APIs and Query Service… > > For the first time in our events series, we are using the CampaignEvents > Extension that allows us to have a registration list onwiki. If you plan to > attend, we strongly encourage you to *register on the event page > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:RegisterForEvent/1050>* so you can > receive updates about the event and access the Jitsi room link. > > If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to write on the talk > page or to reach out to me directly. We’re looking forward to holding this > event with you! Best, > -- > Léa Lacroix > Community Engagement & Events Consultant > Contractor for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. > -- Léa Lacroix Community Engagement & Events Consultant Contractor for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list -- wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/me… To unsubscribe send an email to wikidata-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org

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Next Episode of WikiAfrica Hour "Decolonising knowledge on Wikipedia" JOIN US!
by Donia ElDomiaty 24 Feb '25

24 Feb '25

Dear Wikimedians, We hope this email finds you well. We invite you to join the next episode of WikiAfrica Hour "Decolonising knowledge on Wikipedia” We are very excited to discuss this topic with the episode guests and your joining is very valuable. What can you expect from the episode? What do we mean by decolonising knowledge? Why is it important that we document this on Wikimedia projects? What established knowledge decolonisation projects inside (and even outside) Wikimedia should we be paying attention to? How can we improve existing initiatives, and encourage others to do the same? This month on Wiki Africa Hour, we’re doing a deep dive into decolonising knowledge with guest host, *Achal Prabhala*, who will lead a panel experienced in disrupting the information landscape. Who are the guest speakers? - Iolanda Pensa <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Iopensa>: a wikipedian and researcher. She has been contributing to Wikipedia since 2006, she organized in 2016 “Wikimania Esino Lario”, she is chair of the Wikimania Steering Committee, former chair and now national coordinator for GLAMs of Wikimedia Italia, scientific director of WikiAfrica from 2007 until 2011 and co-founder of Wiki in Africa. Leader of De-colonising knowledge on wikipedia in Switzerland. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Decolonising_knowledge> - Asuru Lutherking Petercan <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lutarchitecture>: a research assistant in architectural history and heritage preservation. Advocating for free knowledge in Nigeria, advocating for policy change and creating awareness in the built environment and beyond about heritage and historic architectural archives, contributing to open source platforms, training more professionals to contribute and also starting an architectural heritage community to join in the contribution of Heritage architecture and GLAM related knowledge in Nigeria. - Sandra Schmitt Soster <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:SSoster_(WMB)>: Sandra Soster is the GLAM and Culture Manager of Wiki Movimento Brasil since 2022. She holds a PhD degree of Architecture and Urbanism by University of São Paulo (USP). - Chantal Edie Ntube: an artist whose art representation extends beyond her visual practice as a photographer and writer. Chantal has a BSC in History, a Masters I in Political Sciences, and an HND in HSC from Reading in the UK. Co-creator of once upon a time symposium in Yaounde Cameroon <https://www.goethe.de/ins/cm/en/ver.cfm?event%20id=26439558>. When and where will the episode take place? Data: Wednesday 26th February Time: 16:00 UTC Join us LIVE on Youtube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIEkQ3ICEqs>. You can also register in the event tool here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:WAH_Episode_42_-_Offline_Wikis,_the_n…> Looking forward to seeing you! -- *Donia* WikiAfrica Hour Production Coordinator & Wiki In Africa Tools Community Facilitator

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Invitation: IG WIKI CONFERENCE SHARING EXPERIENCE SESSION
by Abasili Nkemjika Kingsley 24 Feb '25

24 Feb '25

Ndewo! Greetings Dear Wikimedians, Igbo Wikimedians User Group (IWUG) invites you to her IG CONFERENCE SHARING EXPERIENCE SESSION where members will share their experiences/learnings from recent and past Wikimedia Conferences. Date: Friday, 28 February 2025 Time: 5 PM WAT Venue: Zoom (Online) Register & Mark your Calendar: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83639866537 During the session, members of the IWUG who have attended any Wikimedia Conference will: - Share their experiences from recent conferences and events - Share some of their best practices for Navigating Conference Applications. - Highlight Eligibility Criteria for Wikimedia Conference Scholarship Participants will also learn how to draft Conference Applications. We look forward to seeing you! Daalụ nu! Kingsley Nkem FOR: IGBO WIKIMEDIANS USER GROUP

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Re: West African Affiliates Leads
by Justice Okai-Allotey 19 Feb '25

19 Feb '25

Hi West African Affiliate Leads, We thank you all for taking the time to continue participating in the West African Hub activities we are currently planning. We acknowledge the receipt of the contact information of leaders in the region who have earlier shared their contact information with us. However, as we move to the next stage of participation in the West African Hub initiative, we desire not to leave any community behind and to promote a high sense of diversity, equity and inclusion in creating a regional hub that can meet the strategic needs of the communities in the region. We need your official emails so we can send the questions to you when they are ready. Also, we want to follow up with those tasked to speak to other West African affiliates who are not already part of our conversations. You can send them through west-africa-hub(a)googlegroups.com. Best regard, [French] Bonjour aux affiliés leaders d'Afrique de l'Ouest, Nous vous remercions tous d'avoir pris le temps de continuer à participer aux activités du carrefour de l'Afrique de l'Ouest que nous sommes en train de planifier. Nous accusons réception des coordonnées des dirigeants de la région qui ont déjà partagé leurs coordonnées avec nous. Cependant, alors que nous passons à l'étape suivante de la participation à l'initiative du West African Hub, nous souhaitons ne laisser aucune communauté de côté et promouvoir un sens élevé de la diversité, de l'équité et de l'inclusion dans la création d'un hub régional qui peut répondre aux besoins stratégiques des communautés de la région. Nous avons besoin de vos adresses électroniques officielles afin de pouvoir vous envoyer les questions lorsqu'elles seront prêtes. Nous souhaitons également assurer un suivi avec les personnes chargées de s'adresser à d'autres affiliés d'Afrique de l'Ouest qui n'ont pas encore participé à nos conversations. Vous pouvez nous les envoyer par le biais de west-africa-hub(a)googlegroups.com. Je vous prie d'agréer, Madame, Monsieur, l'expression de mes salutations distinguées, -- *Regards* *Justice Okai-Allotey* *Board Chair Wikimedia Ghana User Group <https://wmgh.org/>* *Working Group Member* Lets Connect <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Knowledge_Sharing/Connect/Team> *Communications Officer *Humanists Association of Ghana <http://www.ghanahumanists.org> *Africa Coordinator Young Humanist International <https://humanists.international/about/young-humanists-international/>* *Freelance Digital Marketer* *Freelance Visual Storyteller* *(WSET Level 1 <https://www.wsetglobal.com/qualifications/wset-level-1-award-in-wines/> in Wine Certificate)* Mobile: +233 (054) 039 4970 Skype: okai_allotey |Linkedin: Justice Okai-Allotey <https://www.linkedin.com/in/justice-okai-allotey-306b6354?trk=hp-identity-n…> | Facebook: Justice Okai-Allotey <https://www.facebook.com/wyzzlewany> | Twitter: @Owula_Kpakpo <https://twitter.com/Owula_Kpakpo> | |Website: *https://about.me/okai-allotey <https://about.me/okai-allotey>*| |Schedule A Meeting:meet with Justice Okai-Allotey <https://calendly.com/owulakpakpo/meet-with-justice-okai-allotey>| *"Our lives begin to the end the day we become silent about things that matter" - Unknown.* [image: Mailsuite] Sent with Mailsuite · Unsubscribe <https://mailsuite.com/en/privacy/opt-out/unsubscribe/72453904e03f5df2da1af4…> 02/19/25, 01:27:37 PM

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Join the dashboard and Meta for Wiki Loves Ramadan
by Dr Tesleemah Abdulkareem 19 Feb '25

19 Feb '25

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[Celebrate Women 2025] Join the campaign to advocate for gender equity!
by Euphemia Uwandu 18 Feb '25

18 Feb '25

=================================================================================================== TL;DR: Are you organizing activities around International Women’s Day or Women’s History Month this March 2025? Did you know that there will be a central page where you can showcase your campaigns and learn about new tools and tactics, and engage with what other Wikimedians are doing globally? *Let’s chat! **Register to join the Celebrate Women Conversation hours happening on the following dates: * - *Opening Session on 21 February 2025 at 13:00 UTC. Register Here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Celebrate_Women_2025_Office_Hour_Seri…>* - *Tooling Training happening on 25 February 2025 at 14:00 UTC. Register Here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Celebrate_Women_2025_Office_Hour_Seri…>* - *Explore additional learning spaces available this year. See Here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celebrate_Women_2025_Office_Hour_Series>* =================================================================================================== Hi Everyone, March 8 marks the annual celebration of International Women’s Day <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women's_Day>, and an opportunity to advance the achievements of the women’s rights and gender equity movement globally. This seminal international holiday also coincides with Women’s History Month <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_History_Month> in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. 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. In line with our ongoing commitment to gender equity, this year the Wikimedia Foundation is supporting the movement’s efforts in this area, by providing a space for volunteers working on gender to share knowledge, access training and celebrate together. *To join the learning and sharing spaces, sign up for the following Office Hours:* - 21 February 2025: Learning, Coordinating and Celebrating: An Office Hour to share plans from across the movement for March (13:00 -14:30 UTC) *Register Here* <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Celebrate_Women_2025_Office_Hour_Seri…> - 25 February 2025: Tooling for Change: Learn about some exciting tools that can support your efforts at closing the gender gap (14:00 -16:00 UTC) *Register Here* <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Celebrate_Women_2025_Office_Hour_Seri…> - 4 March 2025: Programme Support: Access programmatic support to enhance the design of your campaigns focused on advancing gender equity (15:00 - 17:00 UTC). *Register Here* <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Celebrate_Women_2025_Office_Hour_Seri…> - 7 March 2025: Official Launch of Women’s Month: Including Keynote Speaker and announcement of the Wiki Women Task Force members! (15:00 - 16:30 UTC) *Register Here* <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Celebrate_Women_2025_Office_Hour_Seri…> - 18 March 2025: CSWNGO Forum Virtual Session. (8:30 UTC) *Register Here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Celebrate_Women_2025_Office_Hour_Seri…>* - Date TBD: Facilitating Safe and Inclusive Spaces: Gender Sensitivity and UCOC training for organizers working in the gender gap space. *Watch this space for more information.* <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Celebrate_Women_2025_Office_Hour_Seri…> Let’s make March 2025 a powerful moment for gender equity! Kindly, *Euphemia Uwandu (She/Her)* Program Officer, Organizer Growth Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Wikimedia Côte d'Ivoire || Dernière chance ! Rejoignez l’aventure Fotamana
by Abiba Pauline TRAORÉ 18 Feb '25

18 Feb '25

Bonjour, *Le temps presse !* Il ne reste que quelques jours pour postuler à Fotamana <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fotamana,_programme_d%27immersion_p…>, le programme d’immersion de *Wikimedia Côte d’Ivoire* dédié aux leaders des communautés émergentes du mouvement Wiki en Afrique. Si vous souhaitez *renforcer vos compétences, échanger avec d’autres acteurs du savoir libre et bénéficier de l’expertise de Wikimedia Côte d’Ivoire*, c’est le moment de saisir cette opportunité ! Date limite *: 21 février, 23h59 UTC* 👉 Inscrivez-vous dès maintenant : [Lien d’inscription <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfW2nRDHHNsY8-vPxKXK4uBELh8XqjQPrM…> ] Ne laissez pas passer cette chance ! Pour toute question, contactez-nous ou répondez à cet e-mail. À très bientôt, _____________________________________________ Hi, *Time is running out!* There are only a few days left to apply for *Fotamana <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fotamana,_programme_d%27immersion_p…>*, Wikimedia Côte d’Ivoire’s immersion program designed for leaders of emerging Wiki communities in Africa. If you want to *strengthen your skills, connect with other free knowledge advocates, and benefit from Wikimedia Côte d’Ivoire’s expertise*, this is your chance! Deadline:* [february, 21, 2025]* 👉 *Apply now*: [Application Link <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfW2nRDHHNsY8-vPxKXK4uBELh8XqjQPrM…> ] Don't miss this opportunity! For any questions, reply to this email. See you soon, -- Pauline *TRAORÉ* *Communication. Marketing. Projets.* Cultur'Ivoir <https://www.facebook.com/CulturIvoir> | Les jus d'Aby <https://www.facebook.com/lesjusdaby> | Wikimedia Côte d'Ivoire <https://wikimedia.ci> 00225 07 08 84 95 31

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IGBO WIKIMEDIANS USER GROUP WISHES YOU A HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY
by Abasili Nkemjika Kingsley 14 Feb '25

14 Feb '25

Greetings Dear Wikimedians, Today as we honor the spirit of Valentine’s Day, the Igbo Wikimedia Organization sends warm and heartfelt greetings to our community and beyond. In the wise words of our ancestors, “Ịhụnanya bụ ndụ" (love is life). This day is not only a celebration of romantic affection but also a tribute to the love we share for our heritage, culture, and the pursuit of knowledge. Our mission is to preserve and promote the rich tapestry of the Igbo language and traditions, and it is through the unity and passion of people like you that our efforts flourish. Love, in all its forms, inspires creativity, collaboration, and the continuous sharing of wisdom across generations and borders. May your Valentine’s Day be filled with warmth, inspiration, and joy. Let this day remind us that every shared story, every preserved word, and every act of kindness strengthens the bond of our global community. Happy Valentine's Day from Igbo Wikimedians User Group! ❤️ Kingsley Nkem FOR: IGBO WIKIMEDIANS USER GROUP

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