Participation in WIkiindaba - African-Wikimedians

15 Apr 2015

RE: African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 7, Issue 60, Participation in WIkiindaba

I found it interesting to read the discussion linked in Asafs short post. As the Indaba
was my first WMF-event ever I wondered about the several people I met who obviously never
or only very rarely had ever done edits or written articles  (one of my small-talk
questions was: What do you write about?). Of course it is extremely impolite on such
occasions to question the value of the presence of others with whom you share a desk or a
meal so I just kept my thoughts to myself... But yeah, questions came..

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 From the reply I do not yet quite understand how
everybody came about (a "country representative" whose en:account showed not 1
edit, as far as I remember...). Was there a certain number of edits to show, or edits over
a certain period of time? 
OK, interesting discussion

Cheers - Kipala

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    1. Re: Wiki Indaba? (Asaf Bartov)
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Another piece of context is the short discussion WMF and WMZA had over the grant report
about the Indaba.  It is available here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:PEG/WM_ZA/Wiki-Indaba-2014/Repo…

the report itself is here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:PEG/WM_ZA/Wiki-Indaba-2014

Cheers,

    A. 