Hi Florence
Thank you very much for sharing this information with me.
I have signed up. Hopefully we could leverage this to reach out to millions of people in Nigeria that have no access to computers and the internet. I will appreciate training on Wiki offline so that I can train others.
Thank you.
Regards.
Chiemezie Atama (PhD)
Population,  Gender and Development Studies
Department of Sociology & Anthropology
Faculty of the Social Sciences
University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
Founding Director
Equity Watch Initiative
RM 115, Prof. BIC Ijomah Building
University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
                                  chiemezie.atama@gmail.com
+234 8064647508
+234 7014161511


On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 9:36 AM Florence Devouard <fdevouard@gmail.com> wrote:

Definitly

Hello Chiemezie

Please it would be lovely if you would sign up as members of the Wikimedians for offline wikis UserGroup.
Specific link here : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_offline_wikis

This is a very informal and loose thematic based UG, in relation to offline. Its members are scattered around the globe. Its goals and missions overlap quite a bit with yours, but with a slightly different angle (yours focus on nomadism, whilst offline focus on... offline ;))
There is a mailing list too, as well as a recently created telegram group


Congratulations on the involvement

Florence / Anthere


On another note... reading the roles of your UserGroup, I read that one of those is

" To represent the Wikimedia Foundation to the nomad."

I advise against using those specific words. No UserGroup or Chapter represent the Wikimedia Foundation. I advise replacing it with something like "present the Wikimedia world to the nomads"



Le 06/09/2022 à 09:31, Isla Haddow-Flood a écrit :
You also might wish to check in first with the existing Offline Usergroup ... https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects

On Tue, 6 Sept 2022 at 09:29, Isla Haddow-Flood <isla@wikiinafrica.org> wrote:
Hello Chiemezie

This is a big problem across Africa ... we created WikiFundi to allow for digital skills and wikipedia skills development for offline situations. Take a deeper look at https://www.wikifundi.org/ to see if this works for your community and group. 

Let me know if we can help you further. 

warmest
Isla

On Mon, 5 Sept 2022 at 22:05, Chiemezie Atama <chiemezie.atama@unn.edu.ng> wrote:
Dear Boubakri
Thank you very much for this invitation. I serve a community where internet access is a big challenge. People have no access. It has been a source of concern for me as per how do I reach out to this group of people to promote knowledge equity without the internet. Learning that there is a way we could do this is very exciting for me. I have joined the group as a member to see how we can work around this together.
Thank you
Best.
Chiemezie Atama (PhD)
Population, Gender and Development Studies
Department of Sociology & Anthropology
Faculty of the Social Sciences
University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
Founding Director
Equity Watch Initiative
RM 115, Prof. BIC Ijomah Building
University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
                                  chiemezie.atama@gmail.com
+234 8064647508
+234 7014161511


On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 7:57 PM BOUBAKRI HOUSSEMEDDINE <houssemboubakrim2@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear African Wikimedians,

We are happy to announce that we are creating a new user group.
We would like to invite everyone interested to join this new user group named Wikimedians of Nomads user Group.
The main goals of this user group is to introduce Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects in rural and remote areas using offline projects.
You find below the link of the user group:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Nomads_User_Group

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