Hi Douglas,
I am glad to hear there is a group working on the ground and I will be
attending the conference.
I will be presenting on "Cross collaboration across open movements in
Africa" using Wikipedia and Open Street Maps as a case study, talking
especially on how both communities can benefit and make each others work
relevant.
I will showcase how Wikipedia makes use of geodata (coordinates) in
articles of places and suggest new ways we can work together.
Cheers,
On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 12:10 PM, Isla Haddow Flood <isla(a)wikiloveswomen.org>
wrote:
Hello Douglas
Thanks for letting us all know. This sounds very exciting!!
Responding to what Asaf said … perhaps an explanation is required of what
he meant. In the Wikimedia world you have to be endorsed by the AffCom
committee (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee) to
call yourself a Usergroup - the Cameroon group has just completed the
process.
When you are a group of enthusiastic volunteers working towards this
recognition, groups like yours call themselves Planning Wikimedia Uganda
Usergroup, or similar. This is the norm. So I guess that is why he is
surprised at the words you used.
Asaf, you can see the work that the Uganda Volunteer group has done on
Wiki Loves Africa over the last 3 years if you look here:
https://commons.
wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa -
The team that typically takes part can be seen here:
https://commons.
wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Local_events#Uganda
Douglas can point you to the other outreach work they have done.
warmest
Isla
On 07 Jul 2017, at 11:56 PM, Douglas Ssebaggala <erunayo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Wikimedians,
Especially from Africa, apologies that this has come in, really really
late, nevertheless, thought the list can know about the above OpenStreetMap
Conference happening in the next few hours in Kampala. Details at
http://sotmafrica.org
It's a pity that we do not have a session about Wikipedia/Wikimedia
Projects, however, Wikimedia Usergroup members in Uganda and other African
countries are strongly involved in the organisation of the above
conference, and this is just a start, we highly hope to have more
involvement of Wikimedia in the future events.
Thanks.
*Ssebaggala Douglas*
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