Dear African Wikipedians,
Anthere and I have great pleasure telling you that the Wiki Loves Africa
2015 has been granted funding by the Wikimedia Foundation. In short - full
speed ahead!!
Sadly, they will only support 8 focus countries. This means that the
competition for focus countries is fierce. If you haven’t already submitted
your countries’ proposal, then there is little chance it will be considered
now. We will be going through the proposals and get back to those who have
submitted their proposals by the 31st August.
We should also have the marketing materials and information by then.
Just thought you would like to hear the good news!!
warmest regards
Isla
On 17 Aug 2015, at 12:32 PM, Isla, WikiAfrica
<isla(a)wikiafrica.net
<mailto:isla@wikiafrica.net>> wrote:
Dear Wikipedians in Africa
We have sent this to many individuals, but we might have missed someone -
excuse the cross posting if you get this twice.
A while back, Anthere and I sent a request for country proposal from teams
across Africa to participate in the Wiki Loves Africa 2015 competition. We
need you to upload this proposal by the 30th August. Do not send the
proposal by email. Write it up on meta and add a link here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa#Proposals_from_countries_…
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa#Proposals_from_countries_that_wish_to_participate_in_2015>
If you have already sent it, then thank you. We have uploaded it and
linked it. Please check that it is there.
If you haven’t, and you do wish to be involved, please can you upload the
proposal directly to META, and link to the page above. The competition
starts on the 1st October, the last day we can accept proposals is the
30th August. The theme this year is Cultural Fashion and Adornment. It
will be an exciting and interesting theme.
If you missed it, you can read the earlier email here:
Anthere and I are busy working with the WMF to get the grant proposal
accepted - and are very interested in having new groups and countries on
board! We would be very keen to consider you joining the group of
sponsored volunteer groups, however this year we are wanting the teams to
be proactive about their participation. Please see the information below
that we sent out to last year’s organisers. If you would like to discuss
these ideas among yourselves and get back to us by the end of this month,
that would definitely give us an idea of who will be part of the project
this year.
Anthere and I have applied to the WMF for Wiki Loves Africa 2015:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Africa_Centre/Wiki_Loves_Africa_…
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Africa_Centre/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2015>
We would value your endorsement of the project here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Africa_Centre/Wiki_Loves_Africa_…
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Africa_Centre/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2015#Endorsements>
This time we are hoping that 10 countries will host events, and for this
reason have tried to establish criteria for involvement so that it will be
clear who can be part of the project.
If you and your groups are keen to be involved, this year we are going to
choose the groups based on their engagement plan. The plan should consider
the following:
a cohesive plan of events over the two months of the competition -
an event and communications budget that should not exceed the 820 USD (700
event, and 120 communication material) allocated to each country
a list of the core team members (including email addresses)
a list of possible partners and targets for local funding (in-kind or
monetary)
an idea of how to encourage quality submissions, e.g. an alliance with
local photography groups, etc.
For events, please consider the following:
a press launch, if you feel it is necessary
an event aimed at introducing Wikimedia projects to a new audience that
could potentially contribute and add to the user group team - a hub,
interest group, school/ university, etc.
a quality photography demonstration by a local photography group before a
wikitakes event
a collaboration with local designers or fashion event, or fashion and
adornment heritage institution.
I look forward to seeing your proposals posted up by the 30th August!!
warmest regards
Isla and Anthere
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Isla Haddow-Flood
Project Manager
WikiAfrica <http://www.wikiafrica.net/> at the Africa Centre
<http://www.africacentre.net/>
tel: +27 21 418 3336
skype: islahaddow
twitter: @wikiafrica
get started:
wikiafrica.net/toolkits <http://wikiafrica.net/toolkits>
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Islahaddow
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Islahaddow>