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Today's Topics:
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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Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 08:57:02 +0000
From: Raphael Berchie <rberchie@gmail.com>
To: African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [African Wikimedians] Wikimedia Foundation elections
2015/Call for candidates
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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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Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 08:59:26 +0000
From: Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford@gmail.com>
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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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Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 11:30:35 +0200
From: Mohamed Mostafa ouda <mmustafa8@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] Wikimedia Foundation elections
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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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