Dear Felix,
Hello brother, I just saw your mail and very much interested to have the same success of
AfLIA in my country and in my continent Asia, I like to be a part of the network.
Looking to know more about the project.
Regards,
Rajeeb. 🙏🙏
(U: Marajozkee)
(Sent from my iPhone pardon the brevity)
On 11-Jul-2020, at 4:05 AM, Felix Nartey
<fnartey(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Dear African Wikimedia communities,
I am excited to share an update on the recent partnership between AfLIA and the WMF. [1]
This partnership was secured as part of an outreach strategy for 1Lib1Ref: facilitating
Wikimedia community access to libraries who offer expertise and access in national and
continental knowledge, and often make great allies for other local activities like
editathons or GLAM partnership.
The cooperation includes several projects aimed at introducing librarians to the
Wikimedia community as well as ensuring librarians can support our communities across
Africa. As part of this partnership we piloted a localized version of 1Lib1Ref (African
Librarians Week) [2] which exceeded our expectations and is currently engaging more than
842 librarians. Thanks to our regional ambassadors (Georges, Pamela, Ingrid & Ayo) who
played a key role in the success of the May campaign.
We realized early on that AFLIA was eager to train more of their community. We supported
them to apply for a project grant, because we knew how resource intensive it could be to
develop successful, large scale library training.[3] The grant has been approved and AfLIA
is looking forward to working closely with our communities to provide training and
onboarding librarians within their networks into the respective Wikimedia communities on
the continent.
We want to make sure that all of the existing Wikimedia community groups throughout the
continent benefit from this partnership. The goal is to train librarians so that they can
become part of all our communities, the partnership will likely continue to bring:
Opportunities to advise on the training in the grant, and use the professional training
materials
Connections with regional and national library associations
Connect with enthusiastic library leaders in your context
The team for the project is hiring a Wikipedian in residence (WiR) and a Curriculum
Development Consultant.[4][5] Please follow the links to apply for any of the roles if
interested.
Reach out to me or Alex Stinson (astinson(a)wikimedia.org) if you would like to be part of
the conversation with AfLIA and take advantage of their network in your respective
countries.
Best,
[1] -
https://web.aflia.net/
[2] -
https://twitter.com/hashtag/AfLibWk
[3] -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/AfLIA/Wikipedia_in_African_L…
[4] -
https://web.aflia.net/job-opening-wikipedian-in-residence/
[5] -
https://web.aflia.net/job-opening-curriculum-development-consultant/
--
Felix Nartey
Community and Partnerships Coordinator, Campaigns
Wikimedia Foundation
fnartey(a)wikimedia.org
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