Hello friends
I am extending the conversation beyond the co-organizers of WLA events.
We are currently working our jury. We have a nice list of names. This is
great.
BUT NO WOMAN ! For a contest about fashion... that is... weird !
Does anyone have a WOMAN to suggest to join the jury ? Perhaps a woman
blogging in fashion ? Or a woman designer ? Or a woman visual artist ?
Or a woman sociologist ? A woman with high skills and knowledge in hair
styles and jewellery ?
Florence
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Dear All
WikiAfrica is very excited to announce the launch of #OpenAfrica15 that will take place at the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg from the 30th November - 4th December 2015. The course is being funded by the Goethe-Institut and run by WikiAfrica. Please note that we can only accept applications from people resident in the following countries: Kenya, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire and South Africa
Please read the full application here: http://www.wikiafrica.net/?p=1632 <http://www.wikiafrica.net/?p=1632>
Please apply via this application form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1vo0iZp-QPOjWGxAUqCHDiEZj-E9pG6slkMIoLwvt0I… <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1vo0iZp-QPOjWGxAUqCHDiEZj-E9pG6slkMIoLwvt0I…>
The deadline for applications is on the 6th November 2015.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Please also feel free to forward this call onto anyone you feel should apply, but are not necessarily on the African Wikimedians mailing list.
Warmest regards
Isla
Isla Haddow-Flood
Project Manager: WikiAfrica
Username: Islahaddow
WikiAfrica is a project of the Africa Centre
Hello friends
Isla and I worked on a different system for "event reporting" this year.
We thought it would be best to propose that all reports be made by the
different teams on a collective google doc. The googledoc will have as
many tabs as there are teams (first tab is template/consolidation,
second tab is for country A, third tab for country B and so on). It
creates a more transparent feedback and allow each team to learn more
from the other teams.
The template we propose may be accessed here :
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bXp4O7xAgU_LHcYGcJ6dN6pWSUHJha5dSM3…
We would like your feedback on it over the course of the next 3-4 days
and it will go live mid next week.
Are there lines missing ? Are lines unecessary ? Descriptions unclear ?
Please any feedback is welcome.
Florence & Isla
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A big warm hello to my fellow African Wiki Community Members!
It's been almost a year since some of us met up at Wiki Indaba 2014. We all
left with a sense of purpose on how to expand Wikimedia in our community,
and had great ideas on how to increase the number of editors on Wikipedia.
Some personal pledges were made, and there have been several initiatives
from African countries over the last couple of months.
We are excited about the future of the Wikimedia movement in Africa, and
will be working hard in the coming months to expand on the foundations laid
at Wiki Indaba. We will of course need your input and feedback and will be
reaching out to you soon.
For those attending the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin this year, please
feel free to join us at the African meetup
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Social_events#Them
atic.2Fregional.2Flanguage-specific_meetups> where we will touch on what
has transpired this year, and discuss initiatives for going forward. We
will share notes of this meeting via meta for those who cannot attend.
There have been several discussions lately regarding the frequency of Wiki
Indaba gatherings. Considering that the African community is relatively
small, the suggestion at the 2014 conference was that such a gathering would
take place every 3 years, with Tunisia being selected as the next host.
Wikimedia ZA has not applied for funding to host an Indaba within the
upcoming financial year, but we will be happy to assist in applying for
funding from the Wikimedia Foundation to host future events.
We will reach out again at the beginning of June to map the way forward.
Wiki Regards
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Hello
For the set up of Wiki Loves Africa, we need your help for translation.
What we need is
* Arabic
* Any relevant African language
I summarized what is missing here
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2015#Tran…
It would be great if at least some of the portal pages were translated
(at a minimum the landing page) in arabic. It takes a bit of time, but
not so much...
As for the site notice... the texts to translate are ONLY a couple of
sentences. That is EASY and quick to do (just drop the translation on
the discussion page).
Thanks for your help
Florence
Hi friends
I have put all the designs we have received in a dropbox :
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b82dcujzmoctcdd/AABISNY0HIKk9BVwa_e-tRGGa?dl=0
You may find there
* a flyer
* a poster
* emailer
More documents have been put there:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2015_marketin…,
in particular
* logo
* stickers
There are issues with the translated French versions. Please read more
in French
Note that the flyer is displaying similar logos on both sides. This is
actually not really a bug, but rather a feature. You can easily replace
the duplicate with the user group logo and/or local partners logos when
appropriate. Same of the green url (which may be replaced by the user
group facebook group for example).
Personal suggestion :
the second page of the leaflet is quite talkative when it comes to
explaining "how to join the contest" (middle left). In my opinion, it
can be shortened. In case you want to distribute a leaflet giving
information about local events, you probably can stick that information
there.
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Bonjour
J'ai mis tous les designs que nous avons reçu dans une boîte dropbox :
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b82dcujzmoctcdd/AABISNY0HIKk9BVwa_e-tRGGa?dl=0
On y trouve en particulier
* le dépliant
* un poster
* bas d'email
D'autres documents ont été mis ici:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2015_marketin…,
en particulier
* logo
* auto-collants
A noter: le dépliant indique des logos similaires des deux côtés. Vous
pouvez facilement remplacer les doublons par le logo du user group ou le
logo d'un partenaire local. Pareil avec l'url en deux versions: vous
pouvez en remplacer une par votre groupe facebook par exemple.
Le côté verso du dépliant permet de récupérer de l'espace pour indiquer
des infos supplémentaires (par exemple lieu et date d'un évènement).
J'ai repéré deux erreurs dans la traduction en Français. J'en
demanderais la correction demain.
D'une part le titre des documents est incorrecte (ma faute... je devais
être fatiguée). On lit actuellement "tenues traditionnelles et
ornements" alors que la traduction devrait être "tenues et parures
traditionnelles". Rien de dramatique mais bon...
D'autre part sur la deuxième page du dépliant, au milieu à droite, on va
apparaitre un "suivez les 4 étapes" alors qu'il devrait s'agir de
"règles du concours".
Florence
Well done Nigeria!! Other African countries will follow suit, hopefully.
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> Le 20/09/15 08:41, Olaniyan Olushola a écrit :
>> Dear Fellow Wikimedians
>>
>> This is to announce to you that Nigeria Wikimedia User Group is now
>> recognise as WUG by Affcom.
>>
>> We will appreciate your support at this stage.
>>
>> Thank you all for always being with us.
>>
>>
>> Warm Regards.
>> Olaniyan Olushola| Olbims Consulting Solution Provider ( ERP and
>> Accounting Software)|Team Leader, Wikimedia Community User Group,
>> Nigeria, UG NG.|Treasurer FOSSFA, Accra, Ghana.
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