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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Wiki Loves Africa 2016 and beyond :   your    input needed
      (Sam Oye)
   2. Re: African Wikimedia Developers Project (Samuel Guebo)


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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 13:33:16 +0000
From: Sam Oye <samoye_@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] Wiki Loves Africa 2016 and beyond :
        your    input needed
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I look forward to the success of Wiki Loves Africa, this year. The rejection of Wiki Loves Women is truly disappointing :(.


Sam.

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From: African-Wikimedians <african-wikimedians-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org> on behalf of Florence Devouard <anthere@anthere.org>
Sent: 23 May 2017 13:45:41
To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians
Subject: [African Wikimedians] Wiki Loves Africa 2016 and beyond : your input needed


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


Please 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_Theme_for_WLAf_2017

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-wikipedia/
* 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





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Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 18:35:05 +0000
From: Samuel Guebo <samuelguebo@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] African Wikimedia Developers
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Hello everyone and thanks for your efforts in bringing this project to
life. I just endorsed it.

The Accra training is just some weeks away unfortunately. I would have
loved to attend it. Wikimedia Cote d'Ivoire is working closely with a bunch
of coders, living in Abidjan but also in other French-speaking regions in
Africa such as Senegal, Burkina, etc. This project could serve as a bridge
helping these developers embark on the wikimedia endeavour.

Looking forward to organizing a similar training here.

Cheers,



On May 24, 2017 1:27 PM, "Sam Oye" <samoye_@hotmail.com> wrote:

This is such a great project; I'll endorse. I look forward to when it'd be
coming to Nigeria, cos I'll gladly be part of it :).


Sam.
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*From:* African-Wikimedians <african-wikimedians-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org>
on behalf of Felix Nartey <flixtey@gmail.com>
*Sent:* 23 May 2017 13:32:11
*To:* olatunde olalekan isaac; Mailing list for African Wikimedians
*Cc:* wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org; african-wikimedia-developers@l
ists.wikimedia.org
*Subject:* Re: [African Wikimedians] African Wikimedia Developers Project

Thank you all for your encouragement.

@Isaac we will certainly check out the links shared and thanks for the
endorsement.

Cheers,

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 8:11 AM, Isaac Olatunde <reachout2isaac@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> The idea of training African on how to write and maintain script such as
> js coding, and fixing issues with script seem like a brilliant one to me.
> Thus, I have gone ahead and endorsed your proposal. I am also very happy
> that people would be trained on how to contribute to Wikimedia project as
> part of this project. From experience, engaging participants after event is
> usually not a very easy task, and I think this is one area I think we
> really need to work on. This is not a problem peculiar to Africa, it's a
> general problem.
>
> @Felix and Derrick, may I suggest that you take a look at
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wikicology/Adopt? I adapted from
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WormTT/Adopt/.
>
> To be honest with you, it really worked. User:Jaybakky
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jaybakky> and User:Amunique
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Amunique> continued to edit as a
> result of that method. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
> Special:Contributions/Amunique and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
> Special:Contributions/Jaybakky. Both user stopped editing after my banned
> from the English Wikipedia last year since I could no longer continue with
> them. One of them stopped in May during my ArbCom case and the other, less
> than a month after my banned. This is unfortunate but we just have to live
> with it.
>
> Many thanks to Felix and others for their continued effort to improving
> contributions from Africa and Derick for stepping in with a rare skill.
> United we stand, divided we fall!
>
> Regards,
>
> Isaac
>
> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 6:10 PM, Sherry Antoine <sherryantoine@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> This sounds awesome,
>> Cheers,
>> Sherry
>>
>> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 5:59 PM Felix Nartey <flixtey@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I am excited to introduce the African Wikimedia Developers Project
>>> (AWMD)
>>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_Project>.[1]
>>> AWMD is a project that focuses on recruiting volunteer African Developers
>>> for the benefit of the WIkimedia Movement. This idea was inspired by a
>>> conversation with Quim Gil at Wikimania Esino Lario in 2016, and was
>>> followed through to Wiki Indaba <http://2017.wikiindaba.net/> where
>>> talks was concluded on how to further put this to work.
>>>
>>> The project's main goal is to increase the number of volunteer
>>> developers who can solve related Wikimedia issues on the continent and in
>>> the movement at large. We intend to equip prospective volunteers through
>>> trainings and the creation of a community of developers. We will work
>>> closely with affiliate groups (user groups, chapters and thematic
>>> organisations) and other aligned developer groups (GDG, Linux user groups,
>>> mozilla groups, etc.) to push this agenda.
>>>
>>> To ensure scalability of the program we intend to start our first
>>> training in Ghana where we are adequately equipped to closely monitor and
>>> create a useful learning pattern that may be applied to future events. We
>>> intend to have this event from the 23 - 24 June, 2017  and we’ll closely
>>> monitor for about 2 months before planning the next place of training. The
>>> next phase of the project will involve moving to different countries and
>>> trying to emulate the success of the project there. We encourage you to
>>> visit and endorse the grant proposal
>>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/OFWA/African_Wikimedia_Developers>
>>> of our first training in Ghana here.[2]
>>>
>>> All interested in developing and/or wish to share ideas on projects are
>>> invited to join the mailing list
>>> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedia-developers>,
>>> our social media outfit (facebook
>>> <https://www.facebook.com/AfricanWikimediaDevelopers/> and  twitter
>>> <https://twitter.com/AfricanWikiDev>) or learn more via the MediaWiki
>>> page
>>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_Project>
>>> of the project.[3][4][5] We encourage all to share this within their
>>> communities and to others who may be interested.
>>>
>>> Stay tuned for more updates soon!
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> --
>>> *Felix Nartey*
>>> *Cofounder/Director Finance & Admin*
>>> *Open Foundation West Africa <https://openfoundationwestafrica.org/>*
>>> *+233242844987 <024%20284%204987> | +447440959477 <+44%207440%20959477>*
>>> *Skype:Flixtey*
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_
>>> Project
>>>
>>> [2] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/OFWA/Af
>>> rican_Wikimedia_Developers
>>>
>>> [3] - https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimed
>>> ia-developers
>>>
>>> [4] - https://www.facebook.com/AfricanWikimediaDevelopers/
>>> [5] - https://twitter.com/AfricanWikiDev
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
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>>> African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org
>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
>>>
>> --
>>
>> *Sherry-Ann L. Antoine, MPA*
>>
>> Program Manager and Outreach
>>
>> Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia (AfroCrowd)
>>
>> Afrocrowd.org
>>
>> p: (718) 772-4802
>>
>> Sherryantoine@gmail.com
>>
>> Sherry@AfroCROWD.org
>>
>> Skype: Sherry37121
>>
>>
>>
>>
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--
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*Cofounder/Director Finance & Admin*
*Open Foundation West Africa <https://openfoundationwestafrica.org/>*
*+233242844987 <+233%2024%20284%204987> | +447440959477
<+44%207440%20959477>*
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