Hi Asaf,
The Uganda team (*Planning Wikimedia User Group*) will be glad to welcome this initiative, and activities in Kampala - Uganda. We got a bit of great ideas from Felix Nartey's visit last year in July (2017), which we are implementing.
Will be great to have you as well for more of the above.
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- Re: Sub-Saharan Africa visit? (Samuel Guebo)
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Message: 1 Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 19:32:40 +0000 From: Samuel Guebo samuelguebo@gmail.com To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] Sub-Saharan Africa visit? Message-ID: <CAKbRZirPY6v-CP2G1ci3G62+v0HUSBdMEhMPwuqGxRzqaN1=Xg@mail. gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Hello Asaf,
The Wikimedian community in Côte d'Ivoire would be honored to have you here. We look forward to discussing details of your coming.
Best regards,
On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 7:15 PM, Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org wrote:
Some of you know me, but for those of you who don't, let me introduce myself briefly: I am a program officer at the Wikimedia Foundation, and work in the Community Resources (formerly called Grantmaking) team.
While
I handled grants in the past, I am now working on capacity-building activities with emerging communities, in a program called Community Capacity Development[1] (CCD, [[m:CCD]]), one aspect of which -- the Community Capacity Map[2] (CCM, [[m:CCM]]) -- you may have run across on the Wikimedia-l in the past few weeks.
I write today to ask whether your community would be interested in discussing a possible visit to Sub-Saharan Africa by me, with several related goals in each country I'd visit, including:
- a strategy/planning workshop with the group of active contributors.
This
would build on any existing plans or strategy you have, and also
integrate
thinking about the broad goals identified in the movement strategy project's phase 1 (presented at Wikimania in Montreal in August 2017.)
- Meetings with important existing/prospective partners (if deemed
helpful)
- Public speaking (if deemed helpful)
- capacity-building workshops for your community members, on topics such
as (I'll need your help in determining which of these would be useful): ** Free licenses, non-free licenses, copyright, and OTRS (or: How to contribute to the Wikimedia Commons) ** Composing encyclopedic prose from a neutral point of view (NPOV) ** Negotiating notability and reliability requirements on Wikipedia ** Conflict management for Wikipedians ** Group facilitation skills ** Introduction to Wikidata ** Querying Wikidata with SPARQL ** Modern tools demonstration ** How to build a partnership ** etc.
Some logistical details:
*If I come, it would be after the Wikimedia Conference and before Wikimania, i.e. between late April and early July.
- If I come, I would probably stay in Africa for between two and three
weeks total, to have enough time for the above in several countries, and
to
accommodate your needs and availability.
- I will have a budget for some domestic travel, to bring key volunteers
together
- No expenses are expected from your group's budget. Only your time and
cooperation.
Please take some time to discuss this idea and let me know if your community is sufficiently interested that we should discuss it further, over email or a video call. If you feel this would not be very helpful,
or
you really can't accommodate any additional activities before July this year, *please* don't feel obligated to respond. I am genuinely interested in helping, and there are other communities I could be supporting with
this
budget and time, so I won't be offended or upset, promise! :)
I look forward to hearing from you.
Asaf[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CCD [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CCM
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