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Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 09:49:50 +0000
From: Raphael Berchie <rberchie@gmail.com>
To: african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 7,
Issue 63
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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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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ghana>,Open Advocate, Climate
Change Activist,Blogger <http://rberchie.blogspot.com/>
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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
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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.
>
> Regards
> *Raphael Berchie*
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> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ghana>,Open Advocate, Climate
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> From: Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford@gmail.com>
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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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> >> African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org
> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
> >>
> >>
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>
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