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Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 7, Issue 39
by IKoll 24 Mar '15

24 Mar '15

3. Re: [Wikimedia-GH] complete deletion of Dr. Thomas Mensah's name from wikimedia (TheAfricanDream Oral.Ofori) I had a look to day at the template "Template:Copyviocore" (which presently fills the Mensah-page) and left the following on its talk page: Horrible template, complicated and deterring After a discussion on the African-Wikimedians mailing list I have a first look at this template. It looks outright horrible, terribly complicated. Myself being wikipedian for many years I have problems understanding what to do after seeing it. People who write copy-paste entries and disregard copyrights need guidance. They are not hard-core criminals. They probably often are stubborn and will not take a first advice (guess that is how it was in the Thomas Mensah entry). So blanking the whole or parts is probably a good way of shocking them into rethinking. The obvious advice is to rewrite the concerned article. This is hidden somewhere in the template but after reading it twice I am not sure what to do then. Of course you guys are terribly bright but I guess much of wikipedia is written by dumb guys like me. This template takes much of space and complicated advice how to handle a procedure but not how to guide interested people to change the thing. So please dumb this lousy thing down that it looks less lawyerlike. If everybody is whining how the number of editors declines on wikipedia - well here is a pretty good example to explain the reasons. NB: Else I find that everybody enjoying and using gibberish expressions like "copyvio" deserves a firing squad. Cheers from the African bush! Kipala (talk) 07:19, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

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Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 7, Issue 38
by IKoll 23 Mar '15

23 Mar '15

Dear list, I find this debate exceedingly tiring and meanwhile turning into a waste of time (It has been helpful for some clarifications). One very esteemed fellow wikipedian posted a copy-paste entry. Surely with good intentions but against basic rules. After the necessary reaction we get for weeks now a mountain of textlines on this forum instead of someone just rewriting that entry to get the copy-paste-stuff out of it. I do not see that anyone is working against Africa, nobody is punishing authors, and the tag very clearly is not damaging to any topic, no matter if it appears on an entry about Jesus, Muhamad, Thomas Mensah or Arteriovenous fistula. Copy paste is a bad habit that potentially can damage Wikipedia. So will please someone rewrite that article so we can move on to something meaningful? Greetings from Uswahilini - Kipala - Ingo 1. Re: [Wikimedia-GH] complete deletion of Dr. Thomas Mensah's name from wikimedia (TheAfricanDream Oral.Ofori) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 14:25:11 -0400 From: "TheAfricanDream Oral.Ofori" <oralofori(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] [Wikimedia-GH] complete deletion of Dr. Thomas Mensah's name from wikimedia Well then something is definately wrong somewhere if Wikipedia is punishing the articles/authors and not realizing that their actions via those tags have a huge potential to hurt the image of the subjects of these articles, especially in cases involving actual persons :-(

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Fwd: [Commons-l] Picture of the Year 2014 Results
by Nkansah Rexford 20 Mar '15

20 Mar '15

POTY, FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Srikant Kedia" <wikiodisha1(a)gmail.com> Date: Mar 20, 2015 5:57 PM Subject: [Commons-l] Picture of the Year 2014 Results To: <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Dear Wikimedians, The 2014 Picture of the Year competition has ended and we are pleased to announce the results: We shattered participation records this year -- more people voted in Picture of the Year 2014 than ever before. In both rounds, 6698 different people voted for their favorite media files. - In the first round, 4504 <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2014/R1/Resu…> people voted for all 983 candidates <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2014/R1/Resu…> . - In the second round, 3824 <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2014/R2/Resu…> people voted for the 54 finalists (the R1 top 30 overall and top 2 in each category). In the second round - the "three votes" system was enabled for the first time this year - eligible users could vote for up to 3 finalists - each of these 3 votes counted equal. We congratulate the winners of the contest and thank them for creating these beautiful media files and sharing them as freely licensed content: 1. 547 people voted for the winner, Two Julia Butterflies (Dryas iulia) drinking the tears of turtles in Ecuador <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_butterfly_feeding_on_the_tears_of…> . 2. In second place, 416 people voted for An Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) in Antarctica jumping out of the water <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Penguin_in_Antarctica_jumping_out_o…> . 3. In third place, 410 people voted for High above Tocopilla, Chile, one of SQMs Boxcabs coasts downhill to the Reverso switchback <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SQM_GE_289A_Boxcab_Carmelita_-_Reve…> . *Click here to view the top images >>* <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Picture_of_th…> We also sincerely thank to all 6,698 voters for participating. We invite you to continue to participate in the Commons community by sharing your work <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard>. Thanks, the Picture of the Year committee <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2014/Committ…> _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

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Tunisian tragedy
by Isla Haddow-Flood, WikiAfrica 19 Mar '15

19 Mar '15

Dear Wikimedia Usergroup Tunisia Your country is all over the news and all for the wrong reasons, and I wanted to reach out and just say that I am thinking of you through this hard time. I did also notice that there is no English Wikinews item on this tragedy. It might help to make sense of the events if your Usergroup wrote an article from the Tunisian perspective (of course this could be done in the arabic version (as you know my arabic is not very good). I do see that there has already been a change on the english Bardo National Museum page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardo_National_Museum#2015_terrorist_attack <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardo_National_Museum#2015_terrorist_attack> You are in our thoughts ... Warmest Isla Isla Haddow-Flood Project Manager WikiAfrica at the Africa Centre tel: +27 21 418 3336 skype: islahaddow twitter: @wikiafrica www.africacentre.net/wikiafrica <http://www.africacentre.net/wikiafrica> get started: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiAfrica <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiAfrica> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Islahaddow <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Islahaddow>

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Tunisian tragedy
by Isla Haddow-Flood, WikiAfrica 19 Mar '15

19 Mar '15

Dear Wikimedia Usergroup Tunisia Your country is all over the news and all for the wrong reasons, and I wanted to reach out and just say that I am thinking of you through this hard time. I did also notice that there is no English Wikinews item on this tragedy. It might help to make sense of the events if your Usergroup wrote an article from the Tunisian perspective (of course this could be done in the arabic version (as you know my arabic is not very good). I do see that there has already been a change on the english Bardo National Museum page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardo_National_Museum#2015_terrorist_attack <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardo_National_Museum#2015_terrorist_attack> You are in our thoughts ... Warmest Isla Isla Haddow-Flood Project Manager WikiAfrica at the Africa Centre tel: +27 21 418 3336 skype: islahaddow twitter: @wikiafrica www.africacentre.net/wikiafrica get started: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiAfrica <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiAfrica> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Islahaddow

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Re: [African Wikimedians] Copyright violations
by Ingo Koll 09 Mar '15

09 Mar '15

Hi, I have followed this discussion for a while. I understand that the major problem is the copy-paste habit of some editors. There are texts which can be copied and just passed because they have no copyright. But still it is not a good idea. Because it easily loos like a puzzle where pieces do not fit and tends to result in lousy style. There are more texts where the copyright problem arises. This can easily be avoided by just rephrasing the text with own words, if we stick just to one source. Please all do that and lets get out of this lamentation corner. Nobody is being persecuted here, nobody fights against African topics. Lets work on our editig quality, it is not difficult. Otherwise do learn Swahili and edit on sw:Wikipedia. Then you only deal with kind admins who are extremely patient - and copy-paste is next to impossible! Cheers, Kipala ... >>> Otherwise... with a quick study of what is going on about the >>> deletion spree, it seems that... >>> * in all articles, chunks are indeed copyvios. The chunks are >>> smaller or bigger depending on each case. >>> * in many cases, the article is blanked in its entirety, then deleted. >>> >>> Looks like it is a bit overkill to me. I see not why at least a stub >>> could be kept. >>> >>> Ant

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Re: [African Wikimedians] [Wikimedia-GH] Some IP deleting uploads and articles
by Nkansah Rexford 09 Mar '15

09 Mar '15

Yeah @massly the admins are deleting all my articles. @all Even if the article has copyright violations in them, an admin's joy of deleting articles instead of improving them is basically problematic for me. I'm sure after deleting potential articles, they go to bed feeling, 'Oh yeah, I cleaned Wikipedia today. All articles that have slight copyright violations, I cleared them all. What a good admin I am.' Then the following morning, the admin wakes up and finds stats about contributions from Africa and it goes like: "Oh dang! Africans dont contribute to Wikipedia at all. I wonder what they do with their time. Even this man, Patrick Awuah who's well known and the founder of Ashesi University, and Rocky dawuni who's a rock star even is not on Wikipedia. No way, Africans! You're not pulling your weight." Then I look at the admin from above and say, 'sheesh, this is unfair!" If admin's first priority is deleting potentially good articles, then I wonder where the "assume good faith" begins and ends. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith#Good_faith_and_co… I know there's another policy on Wikipedia hiding somewhere that conflicts equally the link above. Happy Independence day to all Ghanaians, and admins deleting my articles relating to Ghana from wherever they are. On Fri, Mar 6, 2015, 08:53 masssly <masssly(a)ymail.com> wrote: > @Rexford > > And I just noticed Rocky Dawuni has also now been deleted. What's > happening... > > -Masssly > > Sent from Samsung Mobile > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com> > Date:04/03/2015 20:12 (GMT+00:00) > To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians <african-wikimedians@lists. > wikimedia.org> > Cc: Wikimedia-gh <Wikimedia-gh(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-GH] [African Wikimedians] Some IP deleting uploads > and articles > > And those elephants, instead of spending time chasing the not so good > articles and high level crappy images on Wikipedia, they rather go on easy > prey and articles relating to celebs not well known, of course because > persons like myself are toothless and won't have anything to do. > > Something I always envisioned happening as long as the whole of Africa has > no Wikipedia admin to turn around decisions like these. > > You know, its hard to think Africanish, if you weren't born as one. > > Those elephants are interested in the unnecessaries and instead take fun > in deleting articles with so much potential > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, 20:08 bobby shabangu <bobbyshabangu(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Exactly... I believe this was one of the elephants we were trying to >> tackle at Wiki indaba right? >> > On Mar 4, 2015 9:57 PM, "Nkansah Rexford" <nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > How Wikipedia rolls? How does it? Deleting legitimate articles and images >>> because someone at the other end dont know the true origin and considers >>> every celeb image on Wikipedia to be copyright? >>> >>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, 19:55 bobby shabangu <bobbyshabangu(a)gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >> Is that one of your policies too !!! >>>> >>>> I used to be in flames and be super furious but after I realized how we >>>> roll I just chilled. So unfortunately this is how we roll don't worry just >>>> chill and keep on editing, the machines will decide if your edits are >>>> worthy to be part of sum of all human knowledge. >>>> >>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Nkansah Rexford < >>>> nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>> There are many policies on Wikipedia, and I also joined with my own >>>>> policies. >>>>> >>>>> One is, if a legitimate content I upload to Wikipedia is deleted by >>>>> someone or something at the other end of the world, I dont and won't >>>>> contest for its undeletion. Never! >>>>> >>>>> I received these images listed here that has been marked for deletion >>>>> ( see close to bottom of page) https://commons.wikimedia.org/ >>>>> wiki/User_talk:Nkansahrexford#File:Peace_Hyde_Mara_Mentor.jpg >>>>> explicitly from either the celeb herself or from her manager. >>>>> >>>>> They are nominated for deletion. >>>>> >>>>> An article about Ashesi University's found that has seen about 200,000 >>>>> views since it was started has been nominated for deletion on grounds that >>>>> make no sense. >>>>> >>>>> "Patrick Awuah, Jr." on @Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ >>>>> Patrick_Awuah%2C_Jr. >>>>> >>>>> Just saying. >>>>> >>>>> Contributions from well meaning individuals go to fix the imbalance >>>>> whatever of africa we all preach about, and IP addresses delete them >>>>> without any substantive reasons. And no one cares. Feels to me machines do >>>>> those deletions instead of humans. >>>>> >>>>> Are machines taking over editing on Wikipedia? Or because of these >>>>> weird activities, humans are no longer contributing their time, and rather >>>>> bots and machines are taking over? >>>>> >>>>> I'm in flames here! >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> African-Wikimedians mailing list >>>>> African-Wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> African-Wikimedians mailing list >>>> African-Wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> African-Wikimedians mailing list >>> African-Wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> African-Wikimedians mailing list >> African-Wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >> > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > African-Wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >

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Recensement actions : [Semaine de la langue française et de la Francophonie] Infos & valorisation du mois de la contribution francophone
by Florence Devouard 09 Mar '15

09 Mar '15

Votre aide pour répondre au questionnaire est la bienvenue (-> Côté d'Ivoire, Algérie, Tunisie etc.) Florence ---------- Message transféré ---------- De : *Anne-Laure Prévost* <annelaure.prevost(a)wikimedia.fr <mailto:annelaure.prevost@wikimedia.fr>> Date : 3 mars 2015 18:57 Objet : [Semaine de la langue française et de la Francophonie] Infos & valorisation du mois de la contribution francophone À : Wikimedia Chapters cooperation francophone <francophones(a)wikimedia.ch <mailto:francophones@wikimedia.ch>> Bonjour, 1. La semaine de la langue française et de la francophonie aura lieu du 14 au 22 mars 2015 : http://www.dismoidixmots.culture.fr/semainelanguefrancaise/ Dans ce cadre, avec Benoît Rochon, coordinateur de WikiFranca, nous avons pensé *faire le bilan des actions du mois de la contribution francophone.* L'objectif est double : * recenser et évaluer les actions qui ont eu lieu dans toute la francophonie pour pouvoir les valoriser * recenser les besoins de soutien des différents groupes d'utilisateurs / chapitres / wikimédiens pour la prochaine édition Nous vous proposons pour cela que chaque personne qui a organisé un événement dans son pays ou sa ville*réponde au questionnaire suivant avant le 10 mars*, qui couvre ces deux aspects. Ce questionnaire prend entre 5 et 10 minutes : *http://goo.gl/forms/fpdwGZoY9j * N'hésitez pas à relayer ce questionnaire ! Les informations recueillies grâce au questionnaire seront ensuite *valorisées à travers un post de blog proposé sur le blog de la WMF notamment.* Pour l'édition 2015 du mois de la contribution francophone, nous pensons qu'*il serait plus logique de caler cela sur le mois de mars, autour de la semaine la francophonie. *>>Qu'en pensez-vous ?* * 2. Toujours dans le cadre de la semaine de la francophonie, un concours est lancé en France comme chaque année: le concours Dis-moi dix mots. Cette année, le mot "Wiki" fait partie des 10 mots sur lesquels écrire : http://www.dismoidixmots.culture.fr/semainelanguefrancaise/agenda/le-jeu-co… Si cela vous inspire, *on peut aussi co-rédiger un post de blog sur ce que "wiki" veut dire dans nos différents pays et ainsi présenter les différentes entités francophones du mouvement ? * Voici un pad avec une proposition de trame : https://lite5.framapad.org/p/oJZi351ZID >>Qu'en pensez-vous ? Anne-Laure pour WikiFranca *Anne-Laure Prévost* CONSEILLÈRE SPÉCIALE PARTENARIATS ET RELATIONS INSTITUTIONNELLES / SPECIAL ADVISOR PARTNERSHIPS &INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS/* */ */*/Tél +33 7 62 93 42 02 //*/**/*/**/*/**/*/*+33 1 42 36 97 72*/*/* */www.wikimedia.fr <http://www.wikimedia.fr/> /* /40 rue de Cléry, 75002 Paris/ <http://osm.org/go/0BPIihnIn?node=691082430>

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"Wikipedia Primary School" is up and running!
by Litrenta Erica 08 Mar '15

08 Mar '15

(crosspost) Hi all, just in case you had missed the announcements elsewhere, this research project [1] focuses on the South Africa primary school curriculum: the involved teams have selected a list of 100+ relevant articles which will undergo review (or creation) by Wikipedians, scholars/experts, or journals. We thought that involving the Wikipedia community was the obvious first step in the process, which is going to last for the next couple of years, so please take a look now at the project page on en.wiki [2] to learn how to join our efforts. The next deadline for article review is *March 15*! User:Alfhild-anthro already reviewed the article about San healing practices; would you do the same for any of the following pages? Sexism — Domestic violence — Gender stereotypes — Transport in South Africa — Bicycle — Khoikhoi — Republic of South Africa — Coal in South Africa — Water supply and sanitation in South Africa — Water privatization in South Africa — Healthcare in South Africa — Nelson Mandela — Apartheid — Oliver Tambo Or maybe you'd like to take a look at the expert reviews posted at [3] or [4] and use them as a guide to improve the related articles? Thanks a lot for what you will do, Elitre (WPS) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Elitre_(WPS) [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Primary_School_SSAJRP_pr… [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_South_Africa/Wikipedia_… [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mapungubwe_Museum [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:San_rock_art

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Re: [African Wikimedians] [Wikimedia-GH] Fwd: 24.130.172.5 left you a message on Wikipedia
by masssly 07 Mar '15

07 Mar '15

Just relax it's no big deal. The check users are usually quit reasonable than admins. If there's no evidence of violations the images are going nowhere. BR -Masssly Sent from Samsung Mobile <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com> </div><div>Date:07/03/2015 20:49 (GMT+00:00) </div><div>To: Wikimedia-gh <Wikimedia-gh(a)lists.wikimedia.org> </div><div>Cc: Mailing list for African Wikimedians <african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org> </div><div>Subject: [Wikimedia-GH] Fwd: 24.130.172.5 left you a message on Wikipedia </div><div> </div> Now reported for copyvios. I'm now before The Hague of Wikipedia. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Wikipedia <no-reply-notifications(a)wikipedia.org> Date: Sat, Mar 7, 2015, 19:36 Subject: 24.130.172.5 left you a message on Wikipedia To: Nkansahrexford <nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com> 24.130.172.5 left a message on your talk page in "CCI Notice". Hello, Nkansahrexford. This message is being sent to inform you that a request for a contributor copyright investigation has been filed at Contrib... View message View changes To control which emails we send you, check your preferences. Wikimedia Foundation, 149 New Montgomery St., 3rd Fl., San Francisco, CA 94105, USA

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