User:Olaniyan Shola actually spoke my mind. I thought of Wikidaba last week and I asked
myself why we couldn't organize such a meetup for African Wikimedians again but I
couldn't find any brilliant answer to my question. Is Wikidaba dead? Although, I never
participated in the maiden edition but my colleagues returned to Nigeria with a motivating
experience. This year is almost over but we can plan against next year. Let's not kill
the spirit of Wikidaba!!!
Olatunde Isaac,
Secretary WU NG
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Le 09/12/15 10:42, Florence Devouard a écrit :
Hello
Ok Rexford and Oral.
Advertisment it is.
Fine.
We can live with it as long as it is not too frequent and too pushy ;)
The goal and the mission is commandable. So I REALLY wish you success
in that business.
TWO little requests though (not recommandations, requests :)).
1. Trademark issue
On the little page of presentation
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZHuuWFwKGxQ1Gnn2DguzlgljZ5ylQwnX2vt-8LU…
You introduce Afropedia as, I quote,
" *Oral Ofori is also an editor on Wikipedia
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Oralofori>; the global
encyclopaedia and its African version; Afropedia
<http://www.worldafropedia.com>where #TheAfricanDream helps to create
articles for Africa." *Afropedia is NOT the African version of
Wikipedia. It is unrelated to Wikipedia, it is not even under a free
licence*. I*would be surprised to hear that it is considered an
"affiliate" project. So, your introduction to Afropedia is misleading
and this needs to be clarified. This point is easy to fix 2. Licence
issue
http://www.worldafropedia.com is published under a
non-commercial licence. Yet.... after a quick checking, most of its
content is clearly a copy paste from Wikipedia. As in
http://www.worldafropedia.com/afropedia/Adja-Ouèrè So, you violate
terms of Wikipedia licence for two reasons 1. You republish a content
originally under a free licence, under a non free licence 2. You do
not cite the source, nor the names of the original authors That point
is a bit more tricky that the above one... but need to be addressed. **
Note that this extend to pictures.
For example
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kent_wove.jpg
English: Kente weaving is a traditional craft among the Ashanti people
of Ghana. A kente cloths is sewn together from many narrow (about 10
centimetres (3.9 in) wide) kente stripes. This image shows different
patterns of typical Ashanti Kente stripes.
Date 14 January 2010 (original upload date)
Source Own work
Author User:Bottracker
and
http://www.worldafropedia.com/afropedia/File:Kent_wove.jpg
03:43, 26 January 2011 Thumbnail for version as of 03:43, 26 January
2011 371 × 513 (356 KB) Kofi (Talk | contribs)
Florence
