Bonjour à tous
Nous avons terminé la rédaction de la demande de financement pour Wiki
Loves Africa 2016
Nous avons besoin de vous de deux façons
1) Voter sur le thème 2016 :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa/2016_theme_ide…
2) si vous soutenez le projet, merci de le mentionner ici (que vous y
participiez ou pas)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Yorg/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016
Principales évolutions proposées cette année
* Nous sollicitons une plus importante participation financière pour les
pays participants
* Nous changeons d'organisation "support" (prévu: une organisation suisse)
* Nous souhaitons impliquer Elisabeth Coye, qui a plusieurs années
d'activité pour Wikimedia France dans le cadre de la levée de fond, pour
améliorer la compta et le reporting (centralisation des infos, reporting
"analytique" des dépenses et mise en place d'une gestion des frais des
pays participants plus simple et efficace)
Questions ou suggestions bienvenues !
Flo
Hello everyone
We have basically drafted the grant request for Wiki Loves Africa 2016.
At this stage, we need your help in two ways
1) remember to vote on the theme:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa/2016_theme_ide…
2) please endorse the project if you think it is a cool project (whether
you plan to participate or not)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Yorg/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016
Main changes this year (which would impact participants)
* We asked for more money for the local teams (to do more events, have
local winners and prizes etc.)
* We are changing host organization (the planned host is a swiss non profit)
* We would like to involve Elisabeth Coye, who has been working for
Wikimedia France for several years now on fundraising matters, to
improve accounting and reporting (to have it more consistant, more
informative and hopefully more straightforward and simpler for participants)
Any questions or suggestions, please speak up !
Flo
For any interested in African foods, there is a proposal on
en.wikipedia.org to merge two articles on the West African condiment
traditionally made from seeds of the African locust bean tree (aka
nere). African names vary (sumbala, iru, dawadawa, netetu, ojji, etc.)
but there is no English name. The proposal is to use "sumbala" - a
loanword in English (often seen in French spelling, soumbala) - as the
main article.
See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sumbala#Proposed_merge_from_Iru_.28food.…
where you can indicate your opinion and give comments.
Apologies if this kind of notice is not appropriate for the list.
Don Osborn
Hello Wikimedians,
We are excited to announce the launch of a new Wikimedia Foundation grants
program, Rapid Grants!
Rapid Grants fund Wikimedia community members -- individuals, groups, or
organizations contributing to Wikimedia projects -- to organize projects
throughout the year for up to USD 2,000. Projects can include experiments
or standard needs that don't need broad review to get started. Applications
are reviewed weekly by WMF staff.
Read more about the new program and apply here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid
Questions? Email rapidgrants(a)wikimedia.org
For more information about next steps and important dates for the grants
program redesign, please visit:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Reimagining_WMF_grants/Imple…
Cheers,
Alex
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Alexandra Wang
Program Officer
Community Resources
Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>
+1 415-839-6885
Skype: alexvwang
Hi
A request has been made for a PEG grant to hold from the 20th May to the
20th November 2016, a widescale, bilingual English/French encyclopedic
writing competition under the theme "Villages of Cameroon".
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Agripo/WikiVillages_du_Cameroun
You are invited to comment and or endorse.
Cheers
Florence
Hi Don, 1,000 is an accomplishment, thus congrats! Wikistatistics (https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryKI.htm) only show non regular activities, large intervals, could not identify a consistent active contributor - maybe he (usually he!) is mostly anonymus and/or has too many intervals.
The statistics on this wiki is not very much up to date (often the case with very small wikis) but still gives a fair picture.
Cheers Ingo
Today's Topics: 1. Kikuyu Wikipedia over 1000 articles (Don Osborn)
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Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 21:14:07 -0400
From: Don Osborn <dzo(a)bisharat.net>
To: afrophonewikis(a)yahoogroups.com,
african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [African Wikimedians] Kikuyu Wikipedia over 1000 articles
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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
Dear All
We would like YOU to decide on the next theme for Wiki Loves Africa - 2016!! We have created a page where you can add a theme that you are excited about, or add your comments, concerns or support to the themes that others have suggested over the course of the whole Wiki Loves Africa contest.
You have until the 15th May to add your theme. On the 16th May the voting will open on the themes. Please note - you cannot yet vote. You can only add your favourite theme for discussion:
Remember to choose a theme so it fits to the guidelines. The theme must:
• Be capable of adding encyclopaedic knowledge about Africa, its peoples and cultures;
• Be universal (everyone does it, wherever they are in the world), but locally relevant (it is done differently by different groups around the world);
• Avoid themes already dealt with by other contests.
Here is the link:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa/2016_theme_ide… <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa/2016_theme_ide…>
So excited to see your ideas!
warmest
Isla and Florence
Hi all
Today is African World Heritage Day, I have set up a page to help encourage
people to write about African World Heritage Sites here:
<http://goog_78778001/>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_UNESCO/African_World_Heritage_D…
If you would like to help or be involved here are some suggestions, any
improvements you can think of would be very much appreciated.
- Share it on social media and Wikimedia projects
- Suggest some more languages to add to the list (I'm working on making
a better tool for next time where people can just choose any language)
- Set up translation tags for the page so it can be translated into
other languages (they are beyond me).
- Write some articles
Thanks
John
Hi all
Today is African World Heritage Day, I have set up a page to help encourage
people to write about African World Heritage Sites here:
<goog_78778001>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_UNESCO/African_World_Heritage_D…
If you would like to help or be involved here are some suggestions, any
improvements you can think of would be very much appreciated.
- Share it on social media and Wikimedia projects
- Suggest some more languages to add to the list (I'm working on making
a better tool for next time where people can just choose any language)
- Set up translation tags for the page so it can be translated into
other languages (they are beyond me).
- Write some articles
Thanks
John