Hello everyone
Wiki Loves Africa 2016 is now closed ! Congratulations everyone !
I think a couple of people went to bed with blurry eyes from final
uploads and I hope Georges recovered a decent internet connexion to
finish his uploads today.
Christine and I finished fixing the tagging issue I discussed with some
of you yesterday by email (we'll talk more of this later to see how to
better deal with tagging next year).
So... in short... current grand total is 7817 pictures.
* Ivory Coast 1147
* Cameroun 852
* Nigeria 765
* Tunisia 731
* Ghana 638
* Ouganda 526
* Egypt 615
* Kenya 385
* Morroco 317
* South Africa 315
* Algeria 281
* Tanzania 190
It is to note that Morroco and South Africa were not specifically
supported within the WLA framework, and it is lovely to see those
figures for them.
Beyond figures... I am pleased to say that the quality of the pictures
is clearly on the rise.
- Increase of skills within the local teams ?
- Better photographic material ?
- More deals with professional photographers ?
- Better visibility of the contest bringing in more diverse participants ?
- More partnerships bringing in pictures ?
There are clearly several reasons to explain that.
But in any cases... great job.
I enjoyed seeing pictures from partners who emerged from the WLW
project, such as https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gogeafrica
Or a winner of last year contest still around :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mustapha_BRAHIM_DJELLOUL
So really... awesome job everyone !
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What's next ?
1. Voting... jury...
will be managed this year by Isla. If you want to help in setting up the
jury tool, the wiki pages for the community vote etc. get in touch with
her !
2. Reuse and categorization of images
Some teams have planned events to categorize and integrate images in
Wikipedia articles (great).
If it is not the case of your local team... please consider doing some
of it all by yourself. It is NOT hard.
To get the ball rolling... I made Asaf dream come true... the Dance
article did not really have any dance video featured. He was using that
example when talking to audience to illustrate the fact there was still
a LOT to do on Wikipedia.
Well... he will not be able to use that argument anymore... the Dance
article now has a dance video.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dance&diff=prev&oldid=763008886
And the Kuduro article is illustrated : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuduro
So what about you ? What about going through a category of images
uploaded during WLAf and making sure to illustrate... 5 articles ? 10
articles ? More ?
Asaf probably still think there is a lot to do...
(but he probably needs to explain more about how to use Glamify... uh)
3. Quality
Please consider doing as Tunisian and Algerian teams do and work toward
having your best pictures recognised as quality pictures.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Quality_images_from_Wiki_Loves_…
In particular those teams who complained during WikiIndaba that Africa
UserGroups did not enjoy international recognition. Just do it :) Right
Shola ?
In particular as well those teams who would like to see one of their
photographer be added to the Best Photographers on Commons pool in the
future. Poke Georges...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Meet_our_photographers
4. Documentation
Please do remember to send your documentation for expenses to Elisabeth
5. Brainstorm from WikiIndaba
I reported the notes here :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016#Note…
Please feel free to add any further comments over there.
Cheers
Anthere
Dear All
Wikimedia UG Nigeria (WUGN) in conjunction with Blackface Radio will be
streaming live interview of one of the shining stars of African Wikimedians
in the person of Raphael. He is a Ghanaian social entrepreneur,
co-organizer of Wikiindaba 2017 and an open movement analyst.
He will be sharing his experiences as co-organizer of Wikiindaba 2017, also
as coordinator of Wiki Loves Women in Ghana
You can join us live by login on www.blackface.com.ng.
Twitter @blackfaceNews
Facebook : www.facebook.com/blackfacenews
Let's do it together
Hello guys
Wiki Loves Africa is closing tonight :)
I see some teams still have events and uploads sessions today and this
is great.
Overall slighly less pictures this year than last year; and generally
more off-topic than previous years (no idea why...) but of much higher
quality generally ! So this is really cool !
All focus countries enjoy pretty high participation rates (*), which is
a pleasure.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Africa_2…
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If you are still in mass upload sessions and _do not go through the
upload page_, I would like to ask, please, to make sure that you
pictures are taggued with
{{Wiki Loves Africa 2016}}
[[Category:Images from Wiki Loves Africa 2016 without categories]] (if
you do not put categories beside the maintenance ones)
But generally, I would advise you to start an upload session by clicking
on that GREEN button here :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Participa…
It automatically tag pictures and reduce the manual workload afterwards.
Thanks
Flo
PS: I'll post by tomorrow the outcome of the discussions on WLAf at
WikiIndaba.
(*) Except Zimbabwe, but they could not get the funding until early
January + it is a brand new group struggling to get things set up. So
nothing unexpected here.
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In Residence (Wiki Loves Women), a social entrepreneur, and movement
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Dear Wikimedians
So looking forward to seeing some of you in Accra this week, but before that … Please can the teams, or anyone else, suggest jury members from your countries or the wider Wikimedia community. We are looking 1. for communists (so, people who have an idea of what the community is about and how it works), 2. notable photographers. Please let me know your thoughts either on-list or off, by the end of this week.
Thanks!
Isla
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FYI
Le 30/01/2017 à 20:01, Maggie Dennis a écrit :
> Hello, all. :)
>
> As you know, we are launching a movement strategy process and want people
> from the community integrally involved at every stage. We are accordingly
> seeking active Wikimedians interested in applying for a number of Community
> Strategy Coordinator positions. The people hired for these positions will
> be part-time, remote contractors of up to 20 hours a week with a contract
> of 3 months. Start date should be in early March.
>
> You can see the job descriptions and apply for the positions at <
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Work_with_us>, but here’s a quick
> summary of who we’re looking for and what they’ll be doing:
>
> *Language Specialist Strategy Coordinators*
>
> These will be bilingual speakers of a specific list of non-English
> languages[1] and English who are experienced in their language project
> community or communities. They will be expected to be able to both conduct
> deep outreach to these non-English communities and to liaise between these
> communities and others, in order to maximize the ability of their
> communities to participate in the movement strategy process. They will also
> need to be capable of monitoring and summarizing discussions about strategy
> topics and will be expected to produce a summary report at the end of their
> contract.
>
> *Metawiki Strategy Coordinators*
>
> These facilitators need not be multilingual (although it is a plus), but
> must be fluent in English and must be experienced contributors to one or
> more Wikimedia communities. They will be working alongside the language
> specialist coordinators, the global community, the Wikimedia Foundation and
> the strategy team to facilitate the most inclusive strategy process
> possible. This will include outreach to global communities, offering their
> own community experience and advice to those involved in the process, and
> leading, monitoring, and summarizing strategy-related discussions. They
> will be expected to produce a summary report at the end of their contract.
>
> If you think either of these sounds like you or another community member
> you know, I encourage you to visit the job application page and review the
> job descriptions for more details (again, that's at <
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Work_with_us#Wikimedia_Careers>).
> Please tell us about your experiences as a Wikimedian and why you think you
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> Best,
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> Maggie
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>
> [1]
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> - German
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Hi, I tried to understand the problem. Not so easy in detail.
I see that they played at international tournaments, there are no
further sources except that they are mentioned in team lists.
That is not much but by my reading fulfills requirement of notability.
Did anyone of you try to communicate with the group at work over there
at enwiki? I did not find the place where reasons are given. Anyone
knows if arguing is worth while?
Cheers
Ingo
Am 28.01.2017 um 12:29 schrieb
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> 4. Re: 300 African women football players to rescue
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 18:17:01 +0100
> From: Florence Devouard <anthere(a)anthere.org>
> To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians
> <african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [African Wikimedians] 300 African women football players to
> rescue
> Message-ID: <177f45c1-7647-6fe6-6085-427a91449b35(a)anthere.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
>
> Hello there
>
> So....I just checked the recent activity on the Wiki Loves Women
> assessment board.
>
> And my attention was raised by a serious list of red links (which used
> to be blue... right ?)
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wiki_Loves_Women/Assess…
>
>
> It appears that all those articles were bot-moved from article status to
> "draft" status. They were all created by User:Sander.v.Ginkel (for a
> grand total of 16,104 articles) due to various quality issues.
> All articles created were moved to draft space, where they can rescued
> one by one (being fixed first).
>
> Upon quick checking... roughly 300 african women articles were concerned
> by the purge. It appears that many of them are about footballers (I
> opened 10 articles and the 10 were of that sort), a lot being Ghanean
>
> Quick sampling
>
> * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Belinda_Kanda (Ghanean football
> player)
> * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Maureen_Eke (Nigerian football player)
> * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Aminatu_Ibrahim (Ghanean football
> player)
>
>
> It is possible to volunteer to rescue those articles (fix them, then
> move them back in the main space).
>
> Join the rescue team here :
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Aymatth2/SvG_clean-up/Guidelines
>
>
> Main role required... sourcing... in particular to prove notability.
>
>
> Please help :)
>
>
> Florence
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 21:22:38 +0000
> From: Samuel Guebo <samuelguebo(a)gmail.com>
> To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians
> <african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] 300 African women football players
> to rescue
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>
> Hello @Florence,
>
> I took a look a the links and opened randomly several of them among which:
>
> - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Sheila_Okai
> - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Flore_Enyegue
> - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Basilea_Amoa-Tetteh
>
> In my humble opinion, I do not see any substantive reason to delete them.
> Of course they are merely stubs, but stubs with a least one reference. What
> do you suggest? Adding additional references and moving them back to the
> main space?
>
> I am afraid the bot will do the same bulk deletion.
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 5:17 PM, Florence Devouard <anthere(a)anthere.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello there
>>
>> So....I just checked the recent activity on the Wiki Loves Women
>> assessment board.
>>
>> And my attention was raised by a serious list of red links (which used to
>> be blue... right ?)
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wiki_Lov
>> es_Women/Assessment
>>
>>
>> It appears that all those articles were bot-moved from article status to
>> "draft" status. They were all created by User:Sander.v.Ginkel (for a grand
>> total of 16,104 articles) due to various quality issues.
>> All articles created were moved to draft space, where they can rescued one
>> by one (being fixed first).
>>
>> Upon quick checking... roughly 300 african women articles were concerned
>> by the purge. It appears that many of them are about footballers (I opened
>> 10 articles and the 10 were of that sort), a lot being Ghanean
>>
>> Quick sampling
>>
>> * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Belinda_Kanda (Ghanean football
>> player)
>> * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Maureen_Eke (Nigerian football
>> player)
>> * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Aminatu_Ibrahim (Ghanean football
>> player)
>>
>>
>> It is possible to volunteer to rescue those articles (fix them, then move
>> them back in the main space).
>>
>> Join the rescue team here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
>> User:Aymatth2/SvG_clean-up/Guidelines
>>
>>
>> Main role required... sourcing... in particular to prove notability.
>>
>>
>> Please help :)
>>
>>
>> Florence
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
Hello there
So....I just checked the recent activity on the Wiki Loves Women
assessment board.
And my attention was raised by a serious list of red links (which used
to be blue... right ?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wiki_Loves_Women/Assess…
It appears that all those articles were bot-moved from article status to
"draft" status. They were all created by User:Sander.v.Ginkel (for a
grand total of 16,104 articles) due to various quality issues.
All articles created were moved to draft space, where they can rescued
one by one (being fixed first).
Upon quick checking... roughly 300 african women articles were concerned
by the purge. It appears that many of them are about footballers (I
opened 10 articles and the 10 were of that sort), a lot being Ghanean
Quick sampling
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Belinda_Kanda (Ghanean football
player)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Maureen_Eke (Nigerian football player)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Aminatu_Ibrahim (Ghanean football
player)
It is possible to volunteer to rescue those articles (fix them, then
move them back in the main space).
Join the rescue team here :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Aymatth2/SvG_clean-up/Guidelines
Main role required... sourcing... in particular to prove notability.
Please help :)
Florence
FYI
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From: Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 2:36 PM
Subject: [GLAM] #1lib1ref mid-campaign update
To: "Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public]" <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination <
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Hey #1lib1ref organizers, WikiLibrarians and GLAM-Wiki enthusiasts,
We wanted to send a brief update on how the campaign is going:
As of writing the email, the campaign has tracked over 1930 contributions
by 392 contributos in 1332 articles in 15 different languages (remember we
expect we are missing 1/4-1/2 of contributions that don't use the hashtag).
This well surpasses our [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wi
ki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Lessons contributions from last year],
and we still have another week and a half to go! We published a brief
update blog at https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/01/24/1lib1ref-first-week-
highlights/ to highlight these accomplishments.
We have seen a slightly smaller amount of blogging and newsletters as part
of the Campaign this year. We think this may be in part, because the
campaign is less novel and in part because of the broad number of
distractions in the press at the moment (we actually think this means we
have been more grassroots this year which is a good signal for the network
for Wikipedia and libraries). If you find pieces of press or blogs, make
sure to share them at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/
wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Press
We are testing a Central Notice Banner, to encourage Wikimedians to go talk
to their librarians about #1lib1ref. So far we have seen pageview activity
from Wikipedians, but it is not clear how much that will transfer into
activity. We have yet to see a social media boost or huge boost in
participation using the hashtag. If you want to try the banner in your
language, instructions are below [1]
We could still use your help reminding librarians in your context to
participate! Something as simple as visiting your library and showing the
librarians how to add a citation to Wikipedia, or sending an email to your
local library organiziations, would be awesome. Sharing in digital
communications attracts some participants to the campaign, but we also know
that many of participants are encouraged by friends, peers, colleagues or
patrons to participate.
We look forward to seeing what other activities events emerge this year. If
you need help, make sure to contact the Wikipedia Library team.
Keep up the energy through February 3!
Alex Stinson
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https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Projekt_ilustra
cyjny_Philipa_Greenspuna/Kryteria&banner=Community17_
1lib1ref&uselang=en&force=1
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* Go to https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Transla
te&group=Centralnotice-tgroup-Community17_1lib1ref&filter=
* Get select your language.
*Click the first edit for "en"
-* Enter two letter language code
-* Save Translation
*Click for "Have you heard...."
- * Enter Translation
- * Save
*Ping Seddon (WMF), and he will review the translation and deploy it.
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Hello everybody
I hope everybody returned home safely and in good spirits! Just wanted
to say I had a good time and enjoyed very much to see you all. The time
spent on crowded aeroplanes and waiting for connections was worth while.
I add that I uploaded a slightly enhanced version of my presentation
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:African_language_Wikipedias_2017_In…
(I had shortened it actually because of having to share the slot with
Anas). The entry for https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_2017 is up
on swwiki (one reason more for all of you to learn that language!)
Once more thanks to the preparing team! Hope you can relax now a bit. Cheers
Ingo