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9 days left to submit your proposal to WikiIndaba
by abdelwaheb turki 06 Jan '18

06 Jan '18

Dear Mr. or Ms., I thank you for your efforts. Want to share and discuss your Wikimedia experience with African community? Need to have African volunteers involved in your Wikimedia project? Like to explain useful ideas and knowledge to African wikimedians? It is time to do that. In fact, you can easily do that by submitting a proposal to WikiIndaba 2018 in https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2018/Submissions. If you need to have a full or partial scholarship to attend this conference, you can apply to it in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2018/Scholarships. Please keep in mind that you have to submit your proposal and apply for the conference scholarship before or in January 15th, 2018. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki

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Wikimedia Hackathon 2018, Barcelona: Registration open
by Derick N. Alangi 03 Jan '18

03 Jan '18

Dear Wikimedians, Registration and scholarship applications for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2018 are open! The hackathon will be taking place in Barcelona between 18 – 20 May 2018. Scholarship applications are open until January 30, 2018. - Register here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2018/Register_and_Attend - Event details here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2018 Depending on your case and situation (e.g., applying for scholarship), you might need to fill more than one form, please read carefully. Do not hesitate to forward this announcement along to any relevant mailing lists! Looking forward to seeing you in Barcelona!

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Season Greetings
by Olushola Olaniyan 28 Dec '17

28 Dec '17

We are delighted to witness another 360+ days in our calendar. No doubt, it has been an eventful year. As a team, our years is calibrated not by twelve months in a year but by the number of works done within our community as a reflection of our projections for the year. We are glad to thank you all for making it happen. Sincerely, we can’t gloss over the year 2017 without a mention of the numerous supports from our volunteers across the length and breadth of Nigeria. How I wish we can rewind the clock, perhaps we could have seen how colorful the year was to our community. We started the year with less than ten (10) members but today; we are well above thirty (30) committed members, While basking in the joy of the upsurge in the number of our member, we cannot forget many of our Non-Wiki based organizations, which have recognized with our group through various form of partnerships like: · Goge Africa- Content Partner · WFM 91.7 – Awareness for Nigerian Women · University of Ibadan,- Wikimedia Fan Club · Nigeria Institute of Journalism, Ogba, Lagos, Nigeria- Wikimedia Fan Club. · Nigeria Chamber of Commerce, Indurdtry , Mines and Agriculture – Awareness · Wiki Loves Women Team- · Wiki Loves Earth Team · Wiki Loves Monuments Team · Wiki Loves Africa. Team · Goethe Institut @goethe.nigeria- Platform for Training · Project PINK BLUE- Awareness · Cee-Hope Nigeria-Awareness · @Blackface Radio- Awareness · Fountain University, Oshogbo Nigeria- Wikipedia @15 ( Awareness) · Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre. @wteconlinepage- Awareness - African Community at Large. **** and many others that we cant mention. We wish you Merry Xmas and Happy New Year in Advance For Wikimedia UG Nigeria Olaniyan Olushola President Wikimedia UG Nigeria CEO. Data Access Systems Ltd President, WUGN Member, Affiliates Committee ( Affcom) Treasurer, FOSSFA MD,Olbims Consulting Phone: +2348154876844 Email:olaniyanshola15@gmail.com Email:olaniyanshola@yahoo.com Email:treasurer@fossfa.net Facebook:Olaniyan Shola Twitter:oluwanishola73 Wiki User Page: Olaniyan Olushola

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Submit your proposals to WikiIndaba 2018 until January 15th
by abdelwaheb turki 23 Dec '17

23 Dec '17

Dear Users, I thank you for your efforts. The Call for proposals for WikiIndaba 2018, the 3rd African Wikimedia community conference is now open. If you want to participate and share your experience, tools, skills, knowledge, opinions or ideas with mostly active African wikimedians, please submit your proposals to https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2018/Submissions. The deadline for that is January 15th. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki

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Call for Proposals for WikiIndaba 2018 is open
by abdelwaheb turki 22 Dec '17

22 Dec '17

Dear Users, I have the great honour to inform you that the Call for Proposals for WikiIndaba 2018 is now open. WikiIndaba 2018 is the 3rd conference of African Wikimedia movement and will give to participants the opportunity to share their Wikimedia-related experience and skills with a wide and active African Wikimedia audience. The conference will be held in Tunisia from 16 to 18 March 2018. If you want to participate to WikiIndaba and share your works and thoughts with African Wikimedians, feel free to submit your proposal in https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2018/Submissions. The deadline for giving proposals will be January 15th, 2018. If you need a scholarship to attend WikiIndaba 2018, you can apply to it in https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdJJ2I0FBqp4SuiW5ypj-9lnLaAidUmhMs…. Looking forward to seeing you in Tunis next March. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki Felix Nartey Isla Haddow-Flood

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Wiki Loves Africa : Judging
by Isla Haddow Flood 22 Dec '17

22 Dec '17

Dear All Wiki Loves Africa saw 17,811 entries to the competition this year. This is an enormous amount of entries and to do them justice, we need the help of all the teams. This year, we are asking the local teams to please set up their own internal judging panels to create a shortlist - with the idea to reduce the number of quality images to 10% for each country. This 10% will be submitted to the final 2 rounds of the continental judging. Of course you can, as a team, then finalize this short list into a national prize …! Due to a range of issues, but mostly my fault - we are delayed on setting up the Montage for team judging. I am now on the case - and apologise for the delay. Once the Montage team and I have the judging set up, I will be in touch. In the meanwhile, please assemble your judges so that you are ready to get started. Important … Please send me the email address and username of each of the team members for each country that wishes to be in charge of the judging process. I am expecting to be in touch before the season begins, but I wish you all a wonderful festive season and a magnificent end to this year! warmest Isla

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WikiFundi : some news and a help request :)
by Florence Devouard 21 Dec '17

21 Dec '17

Dear all I wanted to inform you all that Wikimedia Foundation has agreed to fund a project grant meant to improve WikiFundi, which is awesome news. WikiFundi on meta : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiFundi/en The full grant request is here : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/WikiInAfrica/WikiFundi I have an urgent issue that those of you already with a WikiFundi can help me with. When in Potsdam, I met with a developper who was willing to have a look at one of the annoying bug (where the use of the software is made more complicated on Macintosh because the plateform opens in a "captured" window with limited functionnalities). However, this person wants to SEE the problem with his own eyes with screenshots. I only work on Macintosh so can provide him as many screenshots on that plateform; But I can NOT put a hand on computers with windows or android to show him the difference. Therefore, I am looking for one of the current holders of WikiFundi to simply switch on the raspberry and take some screenshots for me ! Can someone help ? Flo

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WikiIndaba 2018 Scholarship form
by yamen bousrih 20 Dec '17

20 Dec '17

Dear All, I would like to inform you that the scholarship form for WikiIndaba 2018 is available via this link and also on the conference page (under Registration & Participants). The deadline for accepting scholarship request is set to mid January 15/01/2018. As we are looking forward to welcoming you and meeting you in Tunis, please submit your requests asap :) | | | | | | | | | | | WikiIndaba Conference 2018 - Scholarship Scholarship Application Form for WikiIndaba Conference 2018 in Tunis | | | ThanksYamenCo-Founder WM Tn User Group.

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Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, WikiIndaba Tunis in March 2018
by Ingo Koll 20 Dec '17

20 Dec '17

Hi everybody I was asked from the Tanzanian group about upcoming WikiIndaba. When I open the site https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2018, I find it still with many empty spaces and some information in between. Altogether I find the site not easy to navigate. To find the sub page where to register is a challenge. It is hidden at the end under "documentation" , I do not get it via "Registration & Participants" where I looked for it. Maybe that can be made easier? 3 more remarks: a) there is a deadline for scholarships until Mid-January but "Apply for a scholarship" leads nowhere b) What to do with the many questions at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2018/Questions_for_ap… ? Copy the text into an email and answer there? It is better to put some advice there. c) we are asked to register interest for participation under the headline "Questions and Needs" https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2018/Questions_%26_Ne…". That is not so clear among the meany headings on the page that this is the one to start with I wish for the team good energy in their preparations! !! حظ سعيد Cheers Ingo - Kipala

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Gathering User Inputs for WikiCV Project
by Derick N. Alangi 18 Dec '17

18 Dec '17

*Forwarded as received from Wikitech-l* Hi all, I'm an Outreachy <https://www.outreachy.org/alums/> intern and as a part of the internship, I'm working on a project - WikiCV <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiCV>. Through this project we (my mentors - Gergő Tisza and Stephen LaPorte and I) want to create a contribution summarizing tool which (unlike the existing ones that focus on statistics and are hard to interpret for someone not familiar with Wikipedia editing) highlights contributions in an easy-to-understand manner. I'm writing this to gather inputs from prospective users of this tool, that is all the Wikipedia editors! Basically I want to understand what all things would you like to see in a tool like this? Or what all would you write in your Wikipedia CV? You can give in your inputs through mail (I'd be more than happy to get one :)) or fill out this form <https://goo.gl/forms/slmOreey5iVPWzFx1>. My work is largely dependent on your inputs, so please pour in your comments/views. Your help will be quite appreciated! Eagerly waiting for your inputs :) Thanks, Megha Sharma

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