Hello guys
We would like to invite all WLAf 2016 team leaders to answer our Team
Survey.
This year, we decided to put it directly on meta (you will not get a
google form).
*LINK :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Team_survey*
Please provide a feedback at the very earliest convenience (strong
emphasis on "earliest")
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FOR ALL Africa community members
*P*lease directly head to the last question 3 below our team survey.*The
Theme for WLAf 2017*
*LINK :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Team_survey#The_Them…
Context: the committee approving the Projects Grant Requests is meeting
this week-end to make final decisions. You should know that Wiki Loves
Africa project is not yet approved for funding (crossing fingers) and
that our proposition for Wiki Loves Women funding has been rejected. The
committee did not consider it a worth-supporting project. Disappointing.
But fine.
Accordingly, we are boldly suggesting a theme that could be somehow
tweaked in such a manner that we could also address gender gap issues
through Wiki Loves Africa this year.
Our suggestion is to push for year 2017 the theme : PEOPLE AT WORK.
More context may be found here in a few pages, which I recommand you to
have a look:
* A really cool tool made by Envel after a conference I gave about
Africa and women, based on my suspicion that we mostly had biographies
about porn and sport women (lol) :
http://tools.dicare.org/gaps/gender.php
* Explanation about the tool :
https://www.lehir.net/a-tool-to-estimate-gender-gap-on-wikidata-and-wikiped…
* And category tree ... :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Women_at_work_by_occupation
Of course, if that theme, PEOPLE AT WORK, is chosen, we would not limit
ourselves for women. Men at work, women at work, transgendered at work,
children at work (unfortunately) etc. would be welcome.
What do you think ? Everyone feedback is welcome. This includes people
who did not participate to WLAf previous years. And this can include
AfroCROWD of course ;)
If there is enough support, there will not be a "call for themes and
votes" this year as we did last year. If we have a good enough support,
we will add the theme in the WLAf grant request asap.
Florence and Isla