FYI.
A.
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From: Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 10:06 PM
Subject: Announcing the Hardware donation program
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear Wikimedians,
The Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce a small new program called
the Hardware Donation Program. In a word, it is a program designed to
donate depreciated (but fully working) hardware from the WMF office to
community members who would put it to good use.
The program, including instructions on how to apply, is described on Meta,
here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hardware_donation_program
Please read the information carefully. I especially encourage you to pay
attention to the program's design considerations, which determine most of
the decisions we'll be making.
We currently have approximately 20 laptops ready to be donated.
Applications are welcome.
The upcoming Wikimedia Conference in Berlin (in about two weeks) would be
an excellent opportunity to deliver some of those laptops in person to
approved applications, so if you think you might be interested, I'd
encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Please also help spread the word about this program, by forwarding this
e-mail to other Wikimedia lists you're on, and posting the link to the
program page on village pumps and *community* (not public) social media
channels or other communication forms you use.
Special thanks to User:Anntinomy from Wikimedia Ukraine, who had the idea
of asking about possible donation of older machines from WMF, and inspired
this program.
Mini-FAQ:
Q: Why are you doing this?
A: WMF's Office IT determines a lifetime for work machines, and regularly
replaces older machines. This creates a stock of older, working machines,
that are available for donation. We can donate them locally to San
Francisco charities, but figure that if we can find low-cost ways to
deliver them to our own community members, that's so much better.
Q: Am I eligible?
A: Read the fine program documentation.
Q: If I'm eligible, am I guaranteed a donated laptop?
A: no.
Q: Once these 20 laptops are donated, will there be others?
A: yes, eventually.
Q: How can you ensure people would use the machines for Wikimedia purposes?
A: We can't. We'll be making a good-effort assessment of the likelihood of
Wikimedia use, and make a decision to donate (or not) the equipment. Once
donated, the equipment no longer belongs to WMF. We encourage, but can't
enforce, reporting on impact achieved using the equipment.
Q: I need a few laptops for my event in two weeks! Can I get them through
this program?
A: No. Read the fine program documentation.
Q: I'm really happy about this!
A: So are we! :)
Q: I'm really angry about this!
A: So it goes.
Q: I have more questions!
A: Hit 'Reply'. :)
Cheers,
Asaf
Hello everyone
If your country participated to Wiki Loves Africa this year, please fill
in this document to report about events held.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yX1GQHKCheUWkS0-uDlr700KOtvolRMQBHz…
I changed the form a bit this year, in hope to make it easier for you to
fill in quickly.
A few comments
* please only complete the tab related to your country
* please fill in the cells in light grey color
* if you organized more than 6 events... just add a column on the right....
* the list of usernames of participants at the bottom is a "nice to have"
* if you have taken pictures of your events, please add the best of them
to commons (do not only keep that for Facebook....)
* if you have planned other post-contest event... you can add them
later. But please add events which already took place.
Thank you for a quick feedback on this.
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As some of you are aware... this is grant season. And request for
funding next WLAf has to be done now.
A draft version is available here :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Yorg/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2017
We can not provide the final report for 2016 as the contest is not over
yet. But we will try to submit as much information as possible.
As such, we do need you to
1) fill up the event report document
2) send the supporting documentation of expenses to Elisabeth (I have
heard that some of you guys are not inline...)
Elisabeth mentionned
* no documents from : Algérie, Nigeria, Tunisie, Ouganda et Zimbabwe.
** no answer to her emails from : Tunisie, Algérie.*
Com'on guys... please. Just do it ;)
Hi there,
WMF is hiring a Community Liaison for a new project - please take a look at
the details below and feel free to pass on to people you know who might be
interested.
Best,
Kacie
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From: Erica Litrenta <elitrenta(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 4:20 AM
Subject: [GLAM] CLs are hiring...
To:
Cc: <translators-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <
wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <
commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hey everyone,
apologies for the cross-posting, we're just too excited:
we're looking for a new member for our team [0], who'll dive right away in
the promising Structured Data project. [1]
Is our future colleague hiding among the tech ambassadors, translators,
GLAM people, community members we usually work with? We look forward to
finding out soon.
So please, check the full job description [2], apply, or tell/recommend
anyone who you think may be a good fit. For any questions, please contact
me personally (not here).
Thanks!
Elitre (WMF)
Senior Community Liaison, Technical Collaboration
[0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Liaisons
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
[2]
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/610643?gh_src=o3gjf21#.WMGV0Rih…
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Hello everyone
Wiki Loves Women is officially launching its presentation video today.
Please check it out here and tell us what you think :
https://vimeo.com/207432965
It is also on Commons :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_loves_Women_-_English_WebM_-_F…
This video was a partnership between WikiAfrica, Goethe Institute and
Blink Tower.
It brought quite a few challenges... such as myself being completely
happy with the exact terms of the script, succeeding to get every
element of the video under a free licence including the background
music, getting a nice african women voice for the narrative, getting
curly hair rather than flat ones, identifying nice examples of western
as well as african concerns... etc. We tried to be as inclusive as
possible.
Well, we hope you like it.
If you do... please litterally "like" the video and "like" our facebook page
A French version is currently being recorded and should follow shortly.
Last, we would love to see the video subtitled in many langages. If you
want to give a hand for the translation, please get in touch with us (by
email, or twitter, or facebook, or on our meta talk page :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Women)
I'll set up a page for translation on meta shortly.
http://www.wikiloveswomen.orghttps://www.facebook.com/WikiLovesWomenhttp://www.twitter.com/wikiloveswomen
Isla and Florence
Dear all,
The 16WikiWomen Translation Drive was covered in Brazilian media yesterday [1].
Congratulations to the organizers and participants.
This is also to remind you that tomorrow is the International Women's Day. Let's celebrate African women together by joining the 16WikiWomen translation Drive. Can't wait to read about African women in local languages.
Best,
Isaac
1. www.cartaeducacao.com.br/reportagens/wikipedia-destaca-mulheres-africanas-e…
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FYI,
Best,
Isaac
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.
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From: Florence Devouard <fdevouard(a)gmail.com>
Sender: "Wikimedia-l" <wikimedia-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 14:01:14
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Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Occupation of Women on WikiData
This is a tool done by Envel Le Hir using WikiData and published today.
I actually inspired him the idea during a conference, when talking of my
desire to get generic data about women professionnal occupation. My main
argument is that I felt many of the added biographies about women were
about actors, singers, or football players. Much less about politicians
and business. But it was a "guess" and I wanted more hard data.
And apparently... he got busy
http://tools.dicare.org/gaps/gender.php
Ok.
Hard data (1950-2005 birth dates):
* 80% of the biographies of porn actors are about women.
* 98.3% of beauty pageant contestants are about women.
* 24% of politicians are about women
* 8.4% of computer scientists are about women.
Or ... In Algeria... the more popular occupation of women by far is...
Volley Ball !
In France... actors.
And in Guinea... well... hard to say... only 17 biographies about
Guinean women anyway.
Florence
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Dear Isaac, forgive me for trying to contribute something sarcastic. I
just wanted to point to the fact, that the nice article from Brazil
about our project carried a pretty stupid prejudice by listing different
"languages", but called the African ones just "dialects" , as if the
sounds coming out of Africa have not yet reached the level of a
"language". "Dialect" often (not by linguists proper) has a connotation
as an inferior, substandard level of communication compared to a "real
language". So these 16 poor African women at home only learned
"dialects", luckily most of them later came to acquire some knowledge in
real "languages"?
I mean the sentence "biografias de personalidades femininas africanas
<http://www.cartaeducacao.com.br/reportagens/africanas-high-tech/> serão
editadas em *diversas línguas diferentes*: árabe, inglês, francês,
espanhol, português, mandarim e alemão, além de *dialetos africanos,
como yorubá e zulu*. "
Which means in English "Biographies of African female personalities
will be published in *several different languages*: Arabic, English,
French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin and German, as well as *African
dialects such as Yoruba and Zulu.*"
One might call this somehow a "praise laced with poison of arrogance"
(maybe a bit racism). But as said before, it was basically just a
sarcastic remark, so no instant action needed (unless someone could
write a letter of protest to the newspaper in Portuguese "dialect")
Ingo
> Hi Ingo, Do you mean a proposal on how to improve articles about African languages or on how to improve African language Wikipedia? What do you have in mind?
> Best, Isaac
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> From: "IKoll" <ikoll(a)gmx.de>
> Dear all,
> Surely it is positive that a Brazilian newspaper took note of the project... However, reading the text (with help of google translate) I learn that they tell readers about African Women bios being translated into a number of "languages" (like Arabic, English, Portuguese) and even "African DIALECTS" (like Yoruba and Zulu).
>
> Ok, next project to draw attention to the fact that there are not only notable WOMEN in Africa but even notable LANGUAGES? Any proposals?
> Cheers Ingo
Dear All,
Trust you are fine
As part of our efforts to improve the awareness of Wikimedia related
projects and activities in Nigeria. This is to officially inform the global
community that Wikimedia UG Nigeria (WUGN) has been official approved to
run Wikimedia Fan Club, University of Ibadan at the oldest University in
Nigeria, University of Ibadan (UI).
We will really appreciate all your supports and assistance.
Best
Olushola
Team Lead, Wikimedia UG Nigeria