Dear Patience

Thank you for alerting us to this matter. I believe you would not have received this message below from Ndahiro Derrick - thank you Derrick for taking action. 

This seems to be a case of a new person being too enthusiastic and making an unintentional mistake- there does not seem to be any ill intent.

User:Moumou82 has reverted all the edits that the newbie did, and your submission is re-assigned to you (User:Salimasi) as the original creator. 

There should be no more confusion.

Good luck with the rest of the process!

warmest
Isla

On Sun, 19 Feb 2023 at 16:11, Ndahiro Derrick Alter <ndahiroderric@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Abel for bringing our community ‘s attention to this issue though ( I don’t think using all these avenues before reaching to the user who did that was really necessary but I understand the context ) 

I just had a phone call with user:Nkunda102 , he is newbie with no skills of editing the metapage, he regrets his actions and will write a formal apology to the original author and the team receiving grants .

Best regards 

On Sat, 18 Feb 2023 at 13:10 Abel MBULA <bam6192@gmail.com> wrote:

Forward as received

FYI dear community member

Abel Lifaefi Mbula

Free Software Dev

Free Culture Enthousiast

Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/

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From: patience kavira <patiencekavira@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2023 at 13:07
Subject: Fwd: My project was stolen by a user from Rwanda - User:Nkunda102
To: Abel MBULA (via Google Drive) <bam6192@gmail.com>

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De : patience kavira <patiencekavira@gmail.com>
Date: sam. 18 févr. 2023 à 12:55
Subject: My project was stolen by a user from Rwanda - User:Nkunda102
To: fdevouard@anthere.org <fdevouard@anthere.org>, donatien.kanga@gmail.com <donatien.kanga@gmail.com>, emmanuelleg22@gmail.com <emmanuelleg22@gmail.com>, isla@wikiinafrica.org <isla@wikiinafrica.org>
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Dear Florence,

It is with great regret that I am writing to report suspicious behavior by a user from Rwanda.

As part of the African Environment project that you are conducting in partnership with Wikimedia CI, I have submitted a funding request since February 14th [1].

However, as I was checking this morning to see if you have already decided on my project, I was surprised to see that the project has been slightly modified, and I am no longer the project owner. It is now the user Nkunda102 who has taken over the project. I did not want to simply undo his modifications, at the risk that he might come back again. I want to bring the situation to your level so that you know what to do, but at the same time, I would like to alert the whole community so that such behavior cannot happen again, because it tarnishes the image of Africa, as well as of Wikipedia.

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Environment/Microfunding/Let%E2%80%99s_fight_climate_change_and_the_gender_gap_on_Wikipedia 

Kind regards,

Patience Kavira

Environmental specialist

University of Kisangani 

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derrick

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