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16WikiWomen Translation Drive
by Olatunde Isaac 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

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… Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.

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Fw: [Wikimedia-l] Occupation of Women on WikiData
by Olatunde Isaac 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

FYI, Best, Isaac Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile. -----Original Message----- 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 To: <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Reply-To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> 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 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 9, Issue 47
by Ingo Koll 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

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 > -----Original Message----- > 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

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Approval: Wikimedia UG Fan Club, University of Ibadan, Oyomo state. Nigeria.
by Olushola Olaniyan 07 Mar '17

07 Mar '17

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

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Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 9, Issue 46 EVEN IN AFRICAN DIALECTS!
by IKoll 07 Mar '17

07 Mar '17

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 -----Original Message----- 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.

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Re: [African Wikimedians] 16WikiWomen Translation Drive
by Olatunde Isaac 07 Mar '17

07 Mar '17

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 Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile. -----Original Message----- From: "Olatunde Isaac" <reachout2isaac(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 06:20:46 To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians<african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Reply-To: reachout2isaac(a)gmail.com 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… Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.

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Fwd: [Wikimedia Education] Changes to the 'Save' button
by Asaf Bartov 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

For those doing outreach. A. ---------- Forwarded message --------- 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>, glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org> *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 _______________________________________________ Education mailing list Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education

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Interesting stats for WLA
by Florence Devouard 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

Hello I invite you to have a look at those links * https://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/baglama2/index.html#gid=285&month=201701 <---- Wiki Loves Africa 2014 * https://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/baglama2/index.html#gid=286&month=201701 <---- Wiki Loves Africa 2015 * https://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/baglama2/index.html#gid=287&month=201701 <---- Wiki Loves Africa 2016 This allows you to see the top pages views for the images integrated into Wikipedia article. ------ For example, the top for 2014 is https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_food_Koshary.jpg currently in the Egypt article of en.wikipedia In Portuguese, this is also https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_food_Koshary.jpg... because the image is now used as the icon image for culinary ! ------ In 2015 The top one is.... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Remise_des_parchemins.jpg on the article Afrique In Russian... this is https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L'éventail.jpg Etc. Cool right ? All in all, it largely suggests that there is still work to do to integrate the images from the contest in articles. Flo

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Wikipedia goes data free in Iraq, what about your country?
by Sandister Tei 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

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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Thanks to your endorsements, my IdeaLab Inspire proposal is ranked first... What should be done after that...
by abdelwaheb turki 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

Dear Mr. or Ms., 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. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki

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