Hello everyone
WikiAfrica has recently started a new project, the Wikipack Africa.
The project amalgamates:
* the coding of a software, WikiFundi, that provides an off-line editing
environment that mimics the Wikipedia environment. The software will be
made available in French and English.
* the creation of action packs for use by local Wikimedia chapters, user
groups or isolated individuals in Africa, and
* a Wikipedia Writing Contest to be run in African Schools,
#WikiChallenge African Schools
It will roll out in two phases :
Phase 1 involves the creation of the WikiPack Africa. WikiPack Africa is
a digital kit located via a local network device (Raspberry PI). The
local network device will provide access to an off-line editing platform
that mimics Wikipedia, and provides related materials and additional OER
resources. The WikiPack Africa will both facilitate the outreach work of
Wikimedia chapters, User Group and individuals, and encourage the growth
of digital skills and content contribution by teachers and students
across Africa. The pack allows for ongoing training and contribution
even when technology, access and electricity outages fail or are not
available at all.
The WikiPack Africa delivered to users will comprise two Raspberry PIs
and some offline materials (posters, leaflets, pull-up banner,
tee-shirts, etc.). The WikiPack will be delivered to several Wikimedia
User Groups located in Africa end of 2016. A Call for Interest will be
made to identify which groups will receive the Packs (8 countries will
be covered as part of the pilot launch).
The project has been conceptualised and conceived by Isla and myself
after seeing how frustrating limited access to internet or even to
electricity could be when trying to participate to Wikipedia.
The WikiPack Africa is primarily meant for individuals and groups
wanting to implement outreach projects and:
* work with galleries, libraries, archives and museums to bring cultural
content online;
* work with education partners to get educators and students contribute
or better understand Wikimedia projects;
* more generally, organise edit-a-thons, photo hunts, workshops, press
conferences, etc. to promote Wikimedia projects.
The #WikiChallenge African Schools (Phase 2) will use the WikiPack
Africa to facilitate an entertaining, powerful, collaborative and
interactive content creation competition between schools in Sénégal,
Côte d'Ivoire, Guinée, Niger, Tunisia, Madagascar, and Cameroon
(countries may change...). The challenge will run early 2017.
The full project is run in partnership with Wikimedia CH and the Orange
Foundation. It will be primarily implemented by Florence, Isla and
Emmanuel Engelhart (Kelson, from Kiwix) from May 2016 until summer 2017.
The project proposal, its documentation and its outcomes will be under a
CC BY SA 4.0 licence.
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CALL for SUPPORT
Current next steps include in particular
* working on the WikiFundi software. This shall be lead by Kelson and
part of the development should be done during the Kiwix Hackhaton prior
to Wikimania. If you are interested to help, and simply interested to
better understand what is planned, please get in touch;
* working on the content that will be put on WikiFundi.
We will NOT provide the entirety of Wikipedia on the plateform, but only
a mix of "presentation material", some "help:pages", "showcase of best
articles" and a large % of templates currently available on Wikipedia.
If you want to help or provide insightful input, please get in touch
(with me), by email or on the wiki talk page or during Wikimania.
We start working on the English content first. My current challenge is
to identify the most relevant help pages... and adapt them to this
offline editing environnement.
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* To read more about Wikifundi:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiFundi
* More information about the wikipack :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipack_Africa/en and
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipack_Africa/fr
* WikiProject page on the English Wikipedia :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikipack_Africa
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Hi all
I'm very happy to say that Wiki Loves Earth Biosphere Reserves
<http://www.wikilovesearth.bio/> is running in 120 countries throughout
June covering all 699 Biosphere Reserves, 70 of which are in Africa. The
website is available in in English, French, Spanish and Russian but you can
help to translate it into other languages
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_UNESCO/Wiki_Loves_Earth_Biosphe…>
.
I would really appreciate it if you could tell groups and individuals who
may be interested in taking part e.g other Wikipedians, photography groups
etc, as well as taking part yourselves, we can't run banners on wiki
because of the number of countries involved. The 10 winning images will be
shared on the UNESCO website and through their social media.
UNESCO is promoting the project so I hope this will encourage people from
outside the Wikimedia movement to take part. You can also promote the
project on social media by sharing any of these message from UNESCO on
Twitter <https://twitter.com/UNESCO/status/741288621668478976>, Facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/unesco/photos/a.10150253911838390.341477.516264683…>
and Instagram <https://www.instagram.com/p/BGeqCavHRMd/>, French, Spanish
and Russian messages are linked to from the site. You could also contact
Biosphere Reserves directly to encourage them to share their photos.
UNESCO have also made descriptions of their Biosphere Reserves available
under CC-BY-SA so they can be used to start missing Wikipedia articles, I
have created a simple to use guide to help
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_UNESCO/Create_Biosphere_Reserve…>
.
Thanks very much and please feel free to contact me or ask questions here.
John
Bonjour à tous,
Je vais me rendre au Sénégal pendant deux semaines au milieu du mois de
juillet. Cela me ferait plaisir de rencontrer des wikimédiens ou
wikimédiennes à Dakar ou ailleurs au Sénégal.
Y a-t-il quelqu'un que je peux contacter sur place ?
Meilleures salutations
Gabriel Thullen aka GastelEtzwane
John thank you for this information. I will be available to assist with translation to Yoruba.
Once more thank you.
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Bonjour à tous,
Je vais me rendre au Sénégal pendant deux semaines au milieu du mois de
juillet. Cela me ferait plaisir de rencontrer des wikimédiens ou
wikimédiennes à Dakar ou ailleurs au Sénégal.
Y a-t-il quelqu'un que je peux contacter sur place ?
Meilleures salutations
Gabriel Thullen aka GastelEtzwane
Dear All
Please see an email below about a survey for the community around what we think should be the qualities that the WMF looks for in the next Executive Director. This is important, and it is more important that they have input from a more diverse community than they have anticipated.
Please fill in the survey linked below.
warmest
Isla
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(Geoffrey Kateregga)
3. Re: Fwd: Official descriptions of all UNESCO Biosphere
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Hello everyone
By a very short margin, the theme 2016 for Wiki Loves Africa has been
chosen. It shall be Music and Danse !!!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa/2016_theme_ide…
Yeah. Thank you to all of those who voted and let's the show begin !
As a reminder, if you have not done it yet, please endorse the grant
request to WMF. Thanks
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Yorg/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016
Cheers
Flo
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Thanks Florence, lets the show begin.
Music and Dance is going to be an interesting theme.
On 1 Jun 2016 11:09, "Florence Devouard" <anthere(a)anthere.org> wrote:
> Hello everyone
>
> By a very short margin, the theme 2016 for Wiki Loves Africa has been
> chosen. It shall be Music and Danse !!!
>
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa/2016_theme_ide…
>
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> Yeah. Thank you to all of those who voted and let's the show begin !
>
>
> As a reminder, if you have not done it yet, please endorse the grant
> request to WMF. Thanks
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Yorg/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Flo
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Hmmm
Last week... I saw ONE red point in South Africa. And now... I see none
whatsoever.
How can that be ?
We should see 8 points, should not we ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Network_of_Biosphere_Reserves_in_Africa…
Flo
Le 23/05/16 à 10:06, john cummings a écrit :
> Hi Florence
>
> Thanks very much for your reply, the map shows Reserves that are
> missing articles, however I still need to add some sites to the list
> so have a look towards the end of the week and there might be some appear.
>
> Cheers
>
> John
>
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> Date: 22 May 2016 at 22:36
> Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] Official descriptions of all UNESCO
> Biosphere Reserve sites available under a Wikipedia compatible license
> To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians
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> <mailto:african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org>>
>
>
> Hello John
>
> I gave it a quick look and it seemed really really cool.
> I saw on the map that there was one non covered region in South
> Africa. I will take care of it this week and share my return on
> experience.
>
> Flo
>
>
> Le 20/05/16 à 23:23, john cummings a écrit :
>> Hi all
>>
>> I'm very happy to say that UNESCO has made the official descriptions
>> of all Biosphere Reserve sites available under a Wikipedia compatible
>> license. Currently around 440 (out of 670) of the Biosphere Reserves
>> do not have an English language Wikipedia article.
>>
>> These descriptions can be used as the missing Wikipedia articles with
>> very little adaption. I have created (with a lot of help) a pretty
>> snazzy Wikidata map and a set of instructions to help people create
>> the missing articles. As far as I know this is the first time someone
>> has done something like this The people who have already used the
>> instructions say it takes around 10 minutes to create a new article,
>> which is quite fast I think. Please give it a try. You can use the
>> map to see which articles are missing in each country.
>>
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_UNESCO/Create_Biosphere_Reserve…
>>
>> I would really love it if you could create some articles (there are
>> quite a few missing sites in Africa) and also retweet me to help more
>> people know about it. Once the articles are created in English I'm
>> hoping that it will make it easier for people to create articles in
>> other languages as well.
>>
>> https://twitter.com/mrjohnc/status/733623393233346560
>>
>> Thanks very much
>>
>> John
>>
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Hi all
I'm very happy to say that UNESCO has made the official descriptions of all
Biosphere Reserve sites available under a Wikipedia compatible license.
Currently around 440 (out of 670) of the Biosphere Reserves do not have an
English language Wikipedia article.
These descriptions can be used as the missing Wikipedia articles with very
little adaption. I have created (with a lot of help) a pretty snazzy
Wikidata map and a set of instructions to help people create the missing
articles. As far as I know this is the first time someone has done
something like this The people who have already used the instructions say
it takes around 10 minutes to create a new article, which is quite fast I
think. Please give it a try. You can use the map to see which articles are
missing in each country.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_UNESCO/Create_Biosphere_Reserve…
I would really love it if you could create some articles (there are quite a
few missing sites in Africa) and also retweet me to help more people know
about it. Once the articles are created in English I'm hoping that it will
make it easier for people to create articles in other languages as well.
https://twitter.com/mrjohnc/status/733623393233346560
Thanks very much
John
FYI, the Kikuyu (Gĩkũyũ) Wikipedia https://ki.wikipedia.org/ has passed
the 1000 article milestone, currently with 1321 articles. At the end of
January it had only 847.
A quick look at random pages, however, shows many of the pages are
single sentence articles on cities. Still, it would be interesting to
know more about who has been doing the recent editing, and their plans.
One evident gap is that the interface (commands) has not yet been
translated into Kikuyu.
Don Osborn
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