Me I am rooting for Isla she is a female and an African too we can nominate her and all vote for her when the voting time comes then we will be sure we can get someone from Africa to champion our cause.

Raphael Berchie
Sales Officer@ Bio-Plastics Wikimedian,Open Advocate, Climate Change Activist,Blogger
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Rexford  tou can find it here.Call for nominations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Call_for_candidates>

*Raphael Berchie*
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>    1. Re: Participation in WIkiindaba (Nkansah Rexford)
>    2. Wikimedia Foundation elections 2015/Call for      candidates
>       (Raphael Berchie)
>    3. Re: Wikimedia Foundation elections 2015/Call for candidates
>       (Nkansah Rexford)
>    4. Re: Wikimedia Foundation elections 2015/Call for candidates
>       (Mohamed Mostafa ouda)
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> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 09:27:11 +0000
> From: Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford@gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] Participation in WIkiindaba
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> Well said Felix.
>
> One of the pledges I made at the indaba, I don't think I'll be able to
> complete. However, I plan to make it up in other areas.
>
> I think the team in Ghana have a couple of projects on the board to keep us
> busy for a while.
>
> Thanks.
> On Apr 17, 2015 9:24 AM, "Felix Nartey" <flixtey@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I think both of you (Ingo and Rexford)  have raised genuine concerns.
> > However my greatest worry is how we have allowed Wiki Indaba to translate
> > in our lives as Wikimedians.
> >
> > Whether an active Wikimedian, a Community Lead, a Project Organizer, etc.
> > What have you done that reflects the direct implications of the
> conference
> > in your works and the knowledge amassed from there?
> >
> > The essence of this conference can only be proven in our works, and in
> our
> > works are we solely responsible for. I wish to entreat us all to grow our
> > communities and better try to achieve our goals in the pledges we made at
> > the end of the conference (Wiki Indaba)
> >
> > Hope to hear about our exploits soon!!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Felix
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Nkansah Rexford <
> > nkansahrexford@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> @ingo
> >>
> >> Using 'edits' only as a benchmark for someone's activeness on Wikimedia
> >> websites might not necessarily be the best measurement.
> >>
> >> There are some contributors who are not directly contributing to the
> >> wikis but their help come in so well to get content onto Wikipedia or
> other
> >> Wikimedia sites.
> >>
> >> I will use my work as WIR at Africa centre as example here. Although I
> >> did almost all the uploads of images taken, without Isla's paperwork
> >> assistance and coordination with heritage organizations, there would not
> >> have been any images in the first place to upload.
> >>
> >> Thus, if you should look at my edits on Wikipedia or Commons, and say
> >> because I uploaded 10 images but Isla didn't, so she 'doesn't' qualify,
> >> kinda, to attend wiki indaba, well, I think you're flawed.
> >>
> >> I hope we all don't expect everyone to equally edit on Wikipedia or
> other
> >> project websites. Some don't contribute in direct ways, and its best to
> >> have other means of measurement for such ones.
> >>
> >> Creative Commons for instance funded a project that led to training and
> >> reaching out to new ones in Ghana. So if one say, because the lead
> behind
> >> such funding and project doesn't edit Wikipedia, so he or she (she is a
> she
> >> in this case, namely, Kelsey) doesn't actually fit attending such a
> >> conference, then we must be making a mistake then.
> >>
> >> If I edit so well, but another don't, it doesn't mean the other isn't
> >> active. It might be that the other is active in a way that's not
> directly
> >> visible on the wikis.
> >>
> >> Of course it is extremely impolite on such occasions to question the
> >> value of the presence of others with whom you share a desk or a meal so
> I
> >> just kept my thoughts to myself... But yeah, questions came..
> >>
> >> Indeed, it would have been, kinda impolite, to do so. Because you would
> >> have realized not all edit Wikipedia, but they likely are active in a
> way
> >> that you aren't aware of.
> >>
> >> And if you should ask me about what I write about, I might say, nothing.
> >> But I uploaded more images to Commons than you perhaps edited Wikipedia,
> >> and how about that?
> >>
> >> Rexford
> >> khophi.co
> >> On Apr 15, 2015 7:00 AM, "Isla Haddow-Flood" <islahf@africacentre.net>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Ingo,
> >>>
> >>> Speaking as one of the initiators of WikiIndaba, I just wanted to
> >>> clarify the choice of delegates.
> >>>
> >>> You are right, many people that were invited had little to no
> >>> understanding of editing Wikipedia. Because of the lamentable nature
> of the
> >>> editing community across Africa, it was felt that in countries where
> little
> >>> to no editing occurred but aligned activity (Creative Commons, open
> street
> >>> map, etc.) was active, we needed to invite people who had already
> proven
> >>> their commitment to the open movement and were part of an open
> community
> >>> within their country. In some cases it has helped to galvanize a
> fledgling
> >>> wikimedia community. In others, it wasn't so successful.
> >>>
> >>> But it was early days, and we needed to start somewhere. Since
> >>> WikiIndaba, wikimedia usergroup Tunisia has hosted WikiArabia, which
> has
> >>> been very successful and has helped to galvanize the communities in
> North
> >>> Africa and ME.
> >>>
> >>> Warmest
> >>> Isla
> >>>
> >>> Excuse the brevity, sent from my iPhone.
> >>>
> >>> > On 15 Apr 2015, at 07:04, Ingo Koll <ikoll@gmx.de> wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> > RE: African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 7, Issue 60, Participation in
> >>> WIkiindaba
> >>> >
> >>> > I found it interesting to read the discussion linked in Asafs short
> >>> post. As the Indaba was my first WMF-event ever I wondered about the
> >>> several people I met who obviously never or only very rarely had ever
> done
> >>> edits or written articles  (one of my small-talk questions was: What
> do you
> >>> write about?). Of course it is extremely impolite on such occasions to
> >>> question the value of the presence of others with whom you share a
> desk or
> >>> a meal so I just kept my thoughts to myself... But yeah, questions
> came..
> >>> >
> >>> > From the reply I do not yet quite understand how everybody came about
> >>> (a "country representative" whose en:account showed not 1 edit, as far
> as I
> >>> remember...). Was there a certain number of edits to show, or edits
> over a
> >>> certain period of time?
> >>> >
> >>> > OK, interesting discussion
> >>> >
> >>> > Cheers - Kipala
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> >> 1. Re: Wiki Indaba? (Asaf Bartov)
> >>> >>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Another piece of context is the short discussion WMF and WMZA had
> >>> over the grant report about the Indaba.  It is available here:
> >>> >>
> >>>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:PEG/WM_ZA/Wiki-Indaba-2014/Report
> >>> >>
> >>> >> the report itself is here:
> >>> >>
> >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:PEG/WM_ZA/Wiki-Indaba-2014
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Cheers,
> >>> >>
> >>> >> A.
> >>> >
> >>> >
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> >
> >
> >
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>  Who is going from Africa so we all give our support one African United.
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> Regards
> *Raphael Berchie*
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> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ghana>,Open Advocate, Climate
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> Link please.
> On Apr 20, 2015 08:57, "Raphael Berchie" <rberchie@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >  Who is going from Africa so we all give our support one African United.
> >
> > Regards
> > *Raphael Berchie*
> > Sales Officer@ Bio-Plastics <http://www.bioplasticsghana.com> Wikimedian
> > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ghana>,Open Advocate, Climate
> > Change Activist,Blogger <http://rberchie.blogspot.com/>
> > P.O Box CT 10469
> > Cantoments Accra
> > Ghana
> >
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> From: Mohamed Mostafa ouda <mmustafa8@gmail.com>
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> Here is the link Nkansah
>
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Call_for_candidates
>
> <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Call_for_candidates
> >
> and I wish there will be nominated from Africa .
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Nkansah Rexford <
> nkansahrexford@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Link please.
> > On Apr 20, 2015 08:57, "Raphael Berchie" <rberchie@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>  Who is going from Africa so we all give our support one African United.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> *Raphael Berchie*
> >> Sales Officer@ Bio-Plastics <http://www.bioplasticsghana.com>
> Wikimedian
> >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ghana>,Open Advocate,
> Climate
> >> Change Activist,Blogger <http://rberchie.blogspot.com/>
> >> P.O Box CT 10469
> >> Cantoments Accra
> >> Ghana
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
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