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
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1. 16WikiWomen Translation Drive (Olatunde Isaac)
Dear all,
The 16WikiWomen Translation Drive was covered in Brazilian media yesterday [1 http://www.cartaeducacao.com.br/reportagens/wikipedia-destaca-mulheres-afri…].
Congratulations to the organizers and participants.
In addition, if you noticed that a topic as already been covered in your language and appears to be a stub, you could help to de-stub it.
Best,
Isaac
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From: "Olatunde Isaac" <reachout2isaac(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 06:20:46
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Subject: 16WikiWomen Translation Drive
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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For those doing outreach.
A.
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From: Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sherry Snyder <ssnyder(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 1:51 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia Education] Changes to the 'Save' button
To: Wikimedia Education <education(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
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*Nutshell: The big, blue button will soon say "Publish page" instead of
"Save page", because when you click it, the contents get published on the
internet.*
I apologize for cross-posting this to the GLAM and Education lists:
A long-requested change to the "Save" button may finally happen towards the
end of March. This is a button that anyone leading a workshop about
editing is going to talk about, so I wanted to make sure that you didn't
get surprised by this change.
Last year, the WMF looked into an old request to clarify the language on
the "Save" button, which confuses some new contributors. The main problem
is that it is unclear whether "Save" means "save a private copy" (as it
does on most websites these days) or "irrevocably post this to the
internet". This confusion apparently explains a few unwanted behaviors,
such as editors who save the page ("just to be safe") before previewing
their changes.
There are some other reasons behind to do this: It creates some
inconsistency in the interface, as some things (e.g., Special:Preferences)
get saved but kept private, while other things (e.g., normal wiki pages)
get saved and immediately published. It is also difficult to translate the
label into some languages, as the word has multiple possible translations
in some languages.
The plan, therefore, is to change "Save" to "Publish". Instead of the big
blue[1] button saying "Save page" (for a new page) or "Save changes" (when
you edit an existing page), the button will instead say "Publish page" or
"Publish changes".
The upside to this small change is that new contributors will understand
that all of their edits go to the public immediately.[2] The downside is
that all of the documentation and help pages is going to be out of date.
This plan was announced on the wikis last August, and is tentatively
scheduled for sometime in March. I hope that this extra note will keep you
from getting surprised in front of a group and give you enough time to
update any handouts that you might be using in the future.
Relevant links:
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131132 – main task (best place to
figure out if this gets postponed again)
- Special:Translations&message=Publishpage
<https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translations&namespace=8&me…>
(translation
status)
- Special:Translations&message=Publishchanges
<https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translations&namespace=8&me…>
(translation
status)
[1] The color of this button in all of the older wikitext editors will be
changing this week. It's going to be big and blue.
[2] This is true even when the wiki is using FlaggedRevisions or
PendingChanges, because the un-accepted changes can be seen by the general
public from the history page or from &oldid URLs, regardless of whether the
revision has been accepted.
--
Sherry Snyder (WhatamIdoing)
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation
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Sounds like good news
<http://citifmonline.com/2017/02/28/mwc-2017-wikipedia-goes-data-free-in-ira…>
.
Wikimedia Ghana UG in our own small way have been talking to local telcos
about Wikipedia Zero since MTN joined.
Any other conversations going on in your countries about Zero? I know SA is
in already. How is it moving along?
--
Regards,
Sandister Tei
New Media+Journalism | Wikipedia | Purple People
linkedin.com/in/sandister-tei
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I thank you for your endorsements that led my IdeaLab Inspire proposal to be ranked first among more than 60 ideas. This is an honour for me.
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Here :
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The general idea : Creation of a set of supporting tools in two
languages (English and French) to use when approaching associations,
galleries, libraries, archives and museums, with an African flavor.
This is very much still an idea only. The last few months, I felt it was
needed.
But I'd like your feedback on this, ideas, criticisms etc.
Anthere
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I thank you for your support. This is an honour for me to receive your comments and opinion about my Inspire proposal and efficiently to answer all of them. Thanks to your endorsements, my IdeaLab Inspire proposal is currently ranked first as shown in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire/Leaderboard. If you have not endorsed my proposal, please endorse it by clicking Endorse in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inviting_Professors_Emeriti_… so that it can keep its first rank for the five days that remained for this IdeaLab Inspire campaign and so that it can be applied after the campaign.
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 21:18:58 +0000
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Hi Flo,
Sorry, I already mistakenly ask you this question on Wikimedia-I list (I had thought it was African mailing list) but let me ask here again, is there a category we could place articles translated as part of 16 WikiWomen? If no, can we create a category for them in our local language Wikipedia? I mean adding something like "Category:16WikiWomen" to the talk page of translated article.
Best,
Isaac.
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I think adding the articles to a [[Category:16WikiWomen]] is a beautiful
idea.
Flo
Le 20/02/2017 à 22:18, Olatunde Isaac a écrit :
> Hi Flo,
>
> Sorry, I already mistakenly ask you this question on Wikimedia-I list (I had thought it was African mailing list) but let me ask here again, is there a category we could place articles translated as part of 16 WikiWomen? If no, can we create a category for them in our local language Wikipedia? I mean adding something like "Category:16WikiWomen" to the talk page of translated article.
>
>
> Best,
>
> Isaac.
> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.
>
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Ok, that's fine. Done for yo:wiki.
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I think adding the articles to a [[Category:16WikiWomen]] is a beautiful
idea.
Flo
Le 20/02/2017 à 22:18, Olatunde Isaac a écrit :
> Hi Flo,
>
> Sorry, I already mistakenly ask you this question on Wikimedia-I list (I had thought it was African mailing list) but let me ask here again, is there a category we could place articles translated as part of 16 WikiWomen? If no, can we create a category for them in our local language Wikipedia? I mean adding something like "Category:16WikiWomen" to the talk page of translated article.
>
>
> Best,
>
> Isaac.
> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.
>
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Dear Mr. or Mrs.,
I thank you for your endorsements that led my Inspire proposal about creating a project to automatically detect and invite professors emeriti to freely contribute to Wikipedia to be ranked second as shown in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire/Leaderboard. So that this important idea would be ranked first and have more interest from Wikimedia Foundation, more endorsements are needed. So, please endorse my IdeaLab Inspire proposal by clicking on Endorse in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inviting_Professors_Emeriti_…. I will be happy for that.
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Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki
Dear Mr. or Mrs.,
I thank you for your endorsements that led my Inspire proposal about creating a project to automatically detect and invite professors emeriti to freely contribute to Wikipedia to be ranked second as shown in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire/Leaderboard. So that this important idea would be ranked first and have more interest from Wikimedia Foundation, more endorsements are needed. So, please endorse my IdeaLab Inspire proposal by clicking on Endorse in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inviting_Professors_Emeriti_…. I will be happy for that.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki
