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> The ED search steering group has been soliciting input for a few weeks, and
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1. Theme for WLA 2016 shall be : Music and danse (Florence Devouard)
2. Re: Theme for WLA 2016 shall be : Music and danse
(Geoffrey Kateregga)
3. Re: Fwd: Official descriptions of all UNESCO Biosphere
Reserve sites available under a Wikipedia compatible license
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From: Florence Devouard <anthere(a)anthere.org>
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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
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> Cheers
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> 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
> <african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> <mailto:african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org>>
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>
> 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
>
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> 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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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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