Thanks for the endorsements Samuel and Sam.
We are really excited to hear about your interest to participate in this as
this exactly feeds into the model for the program. Which is to work closely
with usergroups and chapters to ensure the success of the trainings. We
will get in touch to further discuss how we can collaborate to get this
done in Nigeria, Cote D'ivoire and the other countries mentioned.
I encourage all those interested to sign up to the mailing list
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedia-developers>
and continue discussions or brainstorm on plans to move this project
forward. Kindly share with all those who might be interested but not on
this thread.
Cheers,
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 6:35 PM, Samuel Guebo <samuelguebo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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_(a)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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ists.wikimedia.org> on behalf of Felix Nartey <flixtey(a)gmail.com>
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*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(a)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(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
This sounds awesome,
Cheers,
Sherry
On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 5:59 PM Felix Nartey <flixtey(a)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,
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[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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