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Join Us on The AfroCine Project
by Sam Oyeyele 22 Sep '18

22 Sep '18

Greetings! Apologies for cross-posting. This is to introduce a new Wikimedia project called "The AfroCine Project".[1] This new project is dedicated to improving the coverage of the history, works, people, places, events, etc, that are associated with the cinema, theatre and arts of Africa, African countries, the Caribbean, and the diaspora. If you would love to be part of this (or you're already active in this area), by coordinating local programmes around African cinema (independently or otherwise) in your community or local Wiki, kindly list your username or organization as a participant on the meta project page cited above. Furthermore, In the months of October and November, we are organizing a global contest and edit-a-thon tagged: "The Months of African Cinema".[2] If you would love to join this exciting event, also list your username as a participant on the English Wikipedia contest page. If you would love to lead this contest (or any other relevant program) for a non-English Wikipedia community, please feel free to translate the English Wikiproject page to your local language Wikipedia, or you can create one from scratch! If you have any questions, complaints, suggestions, etc., please reach out to me personally or right here on the mailing list or the project talkpages. Thank you! Sam Oyeyele. [1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_AfroCine_Project [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine/Months_of_Af… [3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine

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Visiting Wikimedian for the Wikimedia Conference 2019
by Cornelius Kibelka 14 Sep '18

14 Sep '18

Hi all, In preparation for the upcoming Wikimedia Conference 2019 – which will take place from March 29 to March 31 in Berlin, Germany[1] – we again launch a call for a “Visiting Wikimedian”. This initiative aims to transfer practical knowledge from the German chapter to other Wikimedia movement affiliates and provides us with an outside view. The scope of a “Visiting Wikimedian” is mainly to support the organization of the Wikimedia Conference in terms of logistics and program. The “Visiting Wikimedian” will be involved in all essential steps of the planning and organizing process and will be able to contribute in multiple ways. We are open to designing the tasks together, according to the Visiting Wikimedian’s skills and experiences and her or his affiliate’s needs. We are especially looking for a person who can apply the knowledge to an upcoming event, for example if the affiliate is hosting a regional or international conference. You can find more information about the initiative and all application details on Meta.[2] We had three Visiting Wikimedians over the last years, check also their blost posts on the linked on the Meta page. If you are interested in becoming a Visiting Wikimedian, please check the conditions and details on Meta and apply to wmcon(a)wikimedia.de until September 19, 2019 (incl). Best regards, Cornelius [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2019 [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Visiting_Wikimedian -- Cornelius Kibelka Program and Engagement Coordinator (PEC) for the Wikimedia Conference Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207

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Call for Volunteers in Wiki Indaba 2019 Program Review Committee
by Wiki Indaba 2019 Program Committee 12 Sep '18

12 Sep '18

Dear Community members, The Wiki Indaba 2019 planning community is calling for volunteers to serve on the Program Review Committee for Wiki Indaba 2019 in Nigeria. The Program review committee is an important and diverse group of volunteers who will help to review and select applicants. We encourage people from all Wikimedia projects and countries to apply, so that the committee can handle applications in many different languages and to promote diversity. If you are interested in serving on the program review committee, kindly send us an email to justify your inclusion in the committee to wikiindaba2019program(a)gmail.com <wikiindaba2019scholarship(a)gmail.com>. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us there as well. Deadline to apply is Tuesday, September 18, 2018. The organizers will contact all candidates and publish the list of program committee members afterwards. Please accept the assurance and warm regards of the organizing committee. Thank you, Kayode Yussuf, Communications Lead, Wiki Indaba 2019. For:Organizing Committee

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Wiki Loves Africa : Glamify call to action :)
by Florence Devouard 10 Sep '18

10 Sep '18

Hello everyone, I set up a page on the Wiki Loves Africa portal. This is here : *https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2017/Call_to_action* What is it ? It is a call to action with a set of goals. The goal is to make sure that AT LEAST 3000 pictures from each Wiki Loves Africa are reused in Wikipedia. Not 3000 unique pictures. A picture may be used on several languages. How is it done ? I used Glamify. That tool look at which image is currently used in an article in a source language, and when it is, it looks if this article has an equivalent article in another language (the target). If it does and if the picture is only used in the source language, then it will suggest adding it to the target language. Example here : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2017/Call_to_a… There are 4 images currently used in an English article which could be used in a Yoruba article. How the call is going to work ? There is the page. On the page, you may see the usage starting point. For example, for Wiki Loves Africa 2014, there are 1717 images used. Majority on the French Wikipedia. Then a hundred or so in English and Arabic. Then usage goes down for the other languages (I only added the top 10). Chance is that those uses in French, English and Arabic can help figure out where to add those pictures in other languages. Right ? Check out the queries below in the page, and use them to add pictures. I listed a bunch of queries examples (more queries can be done of course). Then I added a %bar, which is fully manually managed. Hopefully... we'll reach 100% at some point... There is no deadline really... The sooner we reach 3000, the better :) How can you use that call ? As an individual from your home of course. But I also suggest that page can be used to coordinate and foster activities during an edit-a-thon. It is a good opportunity to learn how to insert images properly, position, legend, gallery maybe. Also a good opportunity to make sure the image has enough categories and description in all languages. Perhaps doing a fresh query and making it a challenge to insert all relevant pictures from English to a local language wikipedia over an edit-a-thon? I hope you enjoy it ********* Additional help call... 1) This page would benefit from more queries being added (such as ... Arabic inspire English etc.) All current queries are here : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2017/Call_to_… 2) The queries are done by hand (request one query by one query on Glamify; then research and replace some content so that the links work on Commons rather than meta). This is a bit ridiculous as obviously those queries could be fully automated. If any one feel like doing a little bit of magic here to get it done automatically... would be awesome. 3) If anyone feel like updating the page to make it look nicer, more appealing, clearer... BE MY GUEST. Please do. Anthere

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Partnership Working Group
by Olushola Olaniyan 10 Sep '18

10 Sep '18

Dear colleagues, This is to inform us that Partnership Working Group for Wikimedia 2030 Strategy is collating existing documents in the movement on partnership that will inform our research on movement partnerships strategy . If there are partnership related documents within the region that can be shared with the group for this purpose do not hesitate to mail: wg2030-partnerships(a)wikimedia.org Thanks for your cooperation. Best Regards Olushola *CEO. Data Access Systems LtdPresident, Wikimedia Nigeria* *Treasurer, FOSSFA* *Member, Affiliates Committee ( Wikimedia Foundation) * *MD,Olbims Consulting* *Phone: +2348167352512* *Email:olaniyanshola15@gmail.com <Email%3Aolaniyanshola15(a)gmail.com>* *Email:olaniyanshola@yahoo.com <Email%3Aolaniyanshola(a)yahoo.com>* *Email:treasurer@fossfa.net <Email%3Atreasurer(a)fossfa.net>* *Facebook:Olaniyan Shola* *Twitter:oluwanishola73**Wiki User Page: Olaniyan Olushola*

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Fwd: [Wiki Loves Monuments] UNESCO regional training on cultural heritage representations in the Arab region (deadline Sept 10th)
by Paulo Santos Perneta 06 Sep '18

06 Sep '18

Good morning, I'm not sure if this info was already sent to the list, but seems like something of great interest, so I'm taking the risk. Paulo ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: john cummings <mrjohncummings(a)gmail.com> Date: quinta, 6/09/2018 à(s) 11:29 Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] UNESCO regional training on cultural heritage representations in the Arab region (deadline Sept 10th) To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition < wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi all UNESCO are running a regional training on cultural heritage representations in the Arab region (deadline Sept 10th). All expenses will be covered, more information is available here. https://en.unesco.org/news/call-applications-regional-training-cultural-her… I think having someone involved in WLM would be amazing. Also I'd like to explore how we can share some of this knowledge more widely with WLM outside of the workshop. Best John _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org

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Endorsement of the Wiki Indaba grant meta page
by WikiIndaba 2019 Nigeria 05 Sep '18

05 Sep '18

Dear Community members, I am excited to inform you that the Wiki Indaba grant meta page is now open for endorsement. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/Wikimedia_User_Group_Nige… Your endorsement is important for the rating of the significance of the continual hosting of the conference in Africa Kindly click on the shared link then go to the "endorsement" to support the project. Thank you Kayode Yussuf, Communication Lead, Wiki Indaba 2019.

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Call for volunteers in Wiki Indaba 2019 Scholarship Review Committee (SRC)
by WikiIndaba 2019 Nigeria 03 Sep '18

03 Sep '18

Dear Community members, The Wiki Indaba 2019 planning community is calling for volunteers to serve on the Scholarship Review Committee (SRC) for Wiki Indaba 2019 in Nigeria. The scholarship review committee is an important and diverse group of volunteers who will help to review and select applicants. We encourage people from all Wikimedia projects and countries to apply, so that the committee can handle applications in many different languages and to promote diversity. If you are interested in serving on the scholarship committee, kindly send us an email to justify your inclusion in the committee to wikiindaba2019scholarship(a)gmail.com. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact us there as well. Deadline to apply is Monday, September 10, 2018. The organizers will contact all candidates and publish the list of scholarship committee members afterwards. Please accept the assurance and warm regards of the organizing committee. Thank you, Kayode Yussuf, Communication Lead, Wiki Indaba 2019. For:Organizing Committee

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Please endorse the grant application to host a Wikidata query service advanced training in Tunisia
by Houcemeddine A. Turki 01 Sep '18

01 Sep '18

Dear Mr. or Ms., I thank you for your efforts. We are managing to host next november a Wikidata query service advanced training for computer scientists from University of Sfax, Tunisia. The purpose of this training is to allow these scientists to have advanced skills to develop SPARQL queries that can be later used in web applications of Wikidata for various purposes particularly medical ones. To do this training, we need funding and that is why we did a rapid grant application. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Csisc/SPARQL:_Be_conne…. We invite you to endorse it so that the advanced training can be done. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki

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Fwd: [Wikimedia Education] Office Hours launches
by Asaf Bartov 28 Aug '18

28 Aug '18

FYI. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Vahid Masrour <vmasrour(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Mon, Aug 27, 2018, 20:44 Subject: [Wikimedia Education] Office Hours launches To: Wikimedia Education <education(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Dear Wikimedia & Education Community, The Education Team at the Wikimedia Foundation is happy to launch a new “Office Hours” initiative! The Education Team will be holding at least 2 office hours per month. The goal is to have dedicated "real time" conversations about your questions, and first hand accounts of your activities. Having set times for this type of interaction will make sure that everyone has a fair chance to receive real time support. We will make sure to schedule for different time zones so that everyone has a chance to participate. Please bring topics you want to discuss, ask, or share about! It will be an opportunity to have a conversation about them with the Education Team, and also with those that participate in the meeting. We will be using Google Meet to host the meeting, so please make sure you have it installed before the meeting starts. You can download it from: https://meet.google.com/ For the month of August, the meetings are set as follows: - August 30, 16:00 UTC (probably most practical for participants from the Americas, Europe and Africa) - Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/dsu-dhaz-ezm - August 31, 13:00 UTC (probably most practical for participants in Asia and Oceania) - Meet link: https://meet.google.com/ioq-msev-eny If you have any questions, please address them to education(a)wikimedia.org or reply to this message. We look forward to speaking with you at office hours! -- Vahid Masrour Community Capacity Manager, Wikipedia Education Program vmasrour(a)wikimedia.org https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education _______________________________________________ Education mailing list Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education

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