Please see really interesting opportunity below …. please share!
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catalysts for social change.
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> If you know a young African who could benefit from the Harambe Yale Scholar Program, a full tuition scholarship to pursue an MBA at Yale University as well as our feasibility study grants, internships, angel investment and $200k in venture capital, please encourage them to join our Alliance or attend our colloquium at the London Business School to learn more.
> The Harambe LBS Colloquium will be held on campus in room LH101, Laing House on Monday, November 3, at 6.45pm.
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> Our Founder and Chairman, Mr. Okendo Lewis-Gayle, will also shed light on our recent Vanity Fair Spotlight, our new opportunities and the progress of a growing number of Harambeans who are starting and scaling innovative social and business ventures across Africa. Re-designing the wheel in Malawi, manufacturing ambulances in Uganda, rethinking education in Nigeria.
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Hi Wiki Africans,
After consultations and deliberation at Wiki Indaba, Shola and I thought to do some projects in Nigeria that will help propagate Wikipedia in Nigeria and build the Wiki Nigeria community.
When the Wikimedia grants opportunity came up, we decided to grab it with both hands by applying to localize and deploy the Offline Wiki for High Schools in Nigeria.
This is the link, please visit the page, drop your comments and questions on the proposal page, to this mailing list, to my email or to my talk page User talk:kayusyussuf
Grants talk:IEG/Localizing Offline Wikipedia and Deployment in Nigerian High Schools - Meta
Grants talk:IEG/Localizing Offline Wikipedia and Deploy...
This Individual Engagement Grant proposal is under review! We've confirmed your proposal is eligible for round 2 2014 review.
View on meta.wikimedia.org Preview by Yahoo
Kayode Yussuf
Hi
The translation template is bullshit *either not working or laousilz explained)
Sw text is this. Pls do/it/yourself
Asante kwa kutuma picha zako kwa "Wiki Inapenda Afrika" (Wiki Loves Africa)!
Wahariri wetu watatumia picha hizi kwenye makala husika.
Wasalaam Ingo
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Today's Topics:
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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 16:54:11 +0200
From: Florence Devouard <anthere(a)anthere.org>
To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians
<african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [African Wikimedians] Wiki Loves Africa : feedback welcome
Message-ID: <5422DB13.101(a)anthere.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Hello guys !
We are moving in the right direction about the photographic contest !
Most pages are ready on meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa
As well as on commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa
Still some bits missing, but I would love your help in reviewing these pages. Feel free to fix what is obviously wrong. And please give feedback on those pages. What is missing, what is not necessary, what is unclear etc.
The website is roughly set, though there are still some pieces missing :
http://wikilovesafrica.org
It is currently available in French and English.
Please feel free to feedback as well !
Florence
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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 16:59:19 +0200
From: Florence Devouard <anthere(a)anthere.org>
To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians
<african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [African Wikimedians] Wiki Loves Africa: help needed to
translate banners
Message-ID: <5422DC47.6020607(a)anthere.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Hello again
We are currently setting up the banners for the contest. And we need your help to get them translated
For now, only a handful languages have been set up (and automatically
translated)
See here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Upload_campaign_use_Wiki_Loves_…
Can you have a look and fix the following ones already available if you happen to speak the language ? Thanks
Also... some more languages would be obviously nice (arabic... just
saying...)
Please simply add translation if you can.
Thanks
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Hi
Tried to add translation (is it just the 2 lines???) but the link leads nowhere.
Ingo
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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 16:54:11 +0200
From: Florence Devouard <anthere(a)anthere.org>
To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians
<african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [African Wikimedians] Wiki Loves Africa : feedback welcome
Message-ID: <5422DB13.101(a)anthere.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Hello guys !
We are moving in the right direction about the photographic contest !
Most pages are ready on meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa
As well as on commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa
Still some bits missing, but I would love your help in reviewing these pages. Feel free to fix what is obviously wrong. And please give feedback on those pages. What is missing, what is not necessary, what is unclear etc.
The website is roughly set, though there are still some pieces missing :
http://wikilovesafrica.org
It is currently available in French and English.
Please feel free to feedback as well !
Florence
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 16:59:19 +0200
From: Florence Devouard <anthere(a)anthere.org>
To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians
<african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [African Wikimedians] Wiki Loves Africa: help needed to
translate banners
Message-ID: <5422DC47.6020607(a)anthere.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Hello again
We are currently setting up the banners for the contest. And we need your help to get them translated
For now, only a handful languages have been set up (and automatically
translated)
See here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Upload_campaign_use_Wiki_Loves_…
Can you have a look and fix the following ones already available if you happen to speak the language ? Thanks
Also... some more languages would be obviously nice (arabic... just
saying...)
Please simply add translation if you can.
Thanks
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African-Wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org
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End of African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 3, Issue 8
*************************************************
Hello again
We are currently setting up the banners for the contest. And we need
your help to get them translated
For now, only a handful languages have been set up (and automatically
translated)
See here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Upload_campaign_use_Wiki_Loves_…
Can you have a look and fix the following ones already available if you
happen to speak the language ? Thanks
Also... some more languages would be obviously nice (arabic... just
saying...)
Please simply add translation if you can.
Thanks
Hello guys !
We are moving in the right direction about the photographic contest !
Most pages are ready on meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa
As well as on commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa
Still some bits missing, but I would love your help in reviewing these
pages. Feel free to fix what is obviously wrong. And please give
feedback on those pages. What is missing, what is not necessary, what is
unclear etc.
The website is roughly set, though there are still some pieces missing :
http://wikilovesafrica.org
It is currently available in French and English.
Please feel free to feedback as well !
Florence
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From: "Pine W" <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sep 9, 2014 7:58 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Individual Engagement Grants Committee recruiting for
members
To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "
wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Wiki
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Cc:
Dear all,
The Individual Engagement Grants Committee is seeking new members. We are
diverse, consensus-based committee with members on five continents and a
variety of skills. As a group we speak 16 languages and have over 500,000
edits to a variety of Wikimedia sites. We review grant applications twice
per year in four categories: Research, Tools (usually software), Online
community organizing, and Offline outreach and partnerships.
Members may specialize in as few or as many areas as they wish.
We look for the following qualifications. This information is taken from
our Meta page.
Mandatory:
1. Experience with the Wikimedia movement and at least one Wikimedia
project
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_projects>.
2. Experience with some aspect of Wikimedia programmatic or
project-based work, e.g. editor engagement, WikiProjects or other on-wiki
organizing processes, outreach, events, partnerships, research,
education,
gadget or bot-building, etc.
3. Ability to edit basic wiki-markup (grant proposal discussions are
largely conducted on meta-wiki).
4. Reasonable facility with English, for reviewing and discussing grant
proposals.
5. In good community- and legal- standing (not currently blocked or
banned, involved in allegations of unethical financial behavior, etc).
6. Availability to actively engage in the selection process during the
published schedule for that round (time commitment is about 3 hours per
week, plus 1 extra day for scoring).
Preferable:
1. Experience leading, coordinating, or managing projects with an
intended on-wiki or online impact.
2. Experience handling externally provided money and working within
budgets, preferably in a non-profit context.
3. Experience applying for grants or working in grants programs (in the
Wikimedia, academic, or wider non-profit world).
4. Ability to read and write in multiple languages.
Acceptable:
1. Members may apply for an Individual Engagement Grant themselves, but
they will recuse themselves from reviewing proposals in the same category
as their own during that round.
2. Membership does not conflict with membership in other Wikimedia
committees, including the Grant Advisory Committee
<
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Grants:PEG/Grant_Advisor…
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or the Wikimania Scholarships Committee.
Please apply at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Committee#ieg-candidates. The
close of the application period is September 21. The Committee will review
the applications internally and announce new members by early October,
coinciding with the start of the public review period for new grant
proposals.
For the Committee,
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I have just discovered that there is a page where it is possible to monitor articles for delation related to Africa.
you find it here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Africa
maybe it can be relevant to put this page among your favorite pages or to check it once in a while if you want to provide your opinion.
I think people in this mailing list might enrich significantly the discussions related to delation.
it is healthy to delate articles which present topics and people that are indeed not notable. but as we know, sometimes you need to have some background knowledge to actually know what is notable and what is not. your contribution in this would be great.
thanks,
iolanda/iopensa