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Felix Nartey

22 May 2017 22 May '17

9:58 p.m.

Dear all, I am excited to introduce the African Wikimedia Developers Project (AWMD) <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_Project>.[1] AWMD is a project that focuses on recruiting volunteer African Developers for the benefit of the WIkimedia Movement. This idea was inspired by a conversation with Quim Gil at Wikimania Esino Lario in 2016, and was followed through to Wiki Indaba <http://2017.wikiindaba.net/> where talks was concluded on how to further put this to work. The project's main goal is to increase the number of volunteer developers who can solve related Wikimedia issues on the continent and in the movement at large. We intend to equip prospective volunteers through trainings and the creation of a community of developers. We will work closely with affiliate groups (user groups, chapters and thematic organisations) and other aligned developer groups (GDG, Linux user groups, mozilla groups, etc.) to push this agenda. To ensure scalability of the program we intend to start our first training in Ghana where we are adequately equipped to closely monitor and create a useful learning pattern that may be applied to future events. We intend to have this event from the 23 - 24 June, 2017 and we’ll closely monitor for about 2 months before planning the next place of training. The next phase of the project will involve moving to different countries and trying to emulate the success of the project there. We encourage you to visit and endorse the grant proposal <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/OFWA/African_Wikimedia_Developers> of our first training in Ghana here.[2] All interested in developing and/or wish to share ideas on projects are invited to join the mailing list <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedia-developers>, our social media outfit (facebook <https://www.facebook.com/AfricanWikimediaDevelopers/> and twitter <https://twitter.com/AfricanWikiDev>) or learn more via the MediaWiki page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_Project> of the project.[3][4][5] We encourage all to share this within their communities and to others who may be interested. Stay tuned for more updates soon! Cheers, -- *Felix Nartey* *Cofounder/Director Finance & Admin* *Open Foundation West Africa <https://openfoundationwestafrica.org/>* *+233242844987 | +447440959477* *Skype:Flixtey* [1] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_Project [2] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/OFWA/African_Wikimedia… [3] - https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedia-developers [4] - https://www.facebook.com/AfricanWikimediaDevelopers/ [5] - https://twitter.com/AfricanWikiDev

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Sherry Antoine

22 May 22 May

10:10 p.m.

This sounds awesome, Cheers, Sherry On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 5:59 PM Felix Nartey <flixtey(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Isaac Olatunde

23 May 23 May

8:11 a.m.

Greetings, The idea of training African on how to write and maintain script such as js coding, and fixing issues with script seem like a brilliant one to me. Thus, I have gone ahead and endorsed your proposal. I am also very happy that people would be trained on how to contribute to Wikimedia project as part of this project. From experience, engaging participants after event is usually not a very easy task, and I think this is one area I think we really need to work on. This is not a problem peculiar to Africa, it's a general problem. @Felix and Derrick, may I suggest that you take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wikicology/Adopt? I adapted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WormTT/Adopt/. To be honest with you, it really worked. User:Jaybakky <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jaybakky> and User:Amunique <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Amunique> continued to edit as a result of that method. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Amunique and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Jaybakky. Both user stopped editing after my banned from the English Wikipedia last year since I could no longer continue with them. One of them stopped in May during my ArbCom case and the other, less than a month after my banned. This is unfortunate but we just have to live with it. Many thanks to Felix and others for their continued effort to improving contributions from Africa and Derick for stepping in with a rare skill. United we stand, divided we fall! Regards, Isaac On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 6:10 PM, Sherry Antoine <sherryantoine(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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This sounds awesome, Cheers, Sherry On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 5:59 PM Felix Nartey <flixtey(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Dear all, I am excited to introduce the African Wikimedia Developers Project (AWMD) <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_Project>.[1] AWMD is a project that focuses on recruiting volunteer African Developers for the benefit of the WIkimedia Movement. This idea was inspired by a conversation with Quim Gil at Wikimania Esino Lario in 2016, and was followed through to Wiki Indaba <http://2017.wikiindaba.net/> where talks was concluded on how to further put this to work. The project's main goal is to increase the number of volunteer developers who can solve related Wikimedia issues on the continent and in the movement at large. We intend to equip prospective volunteers through trainings and the creation of a community of developers. We will work closely with affiliate groups (user groups, chapters and thematic organisations) and other aligned developer groups (GDG, Linux user groups, mozilla groups, etc.) to push this agenda. To ensure scalability of the program we intend to start our first training in Ghana where we are adequately equipped to closely monitor and create a useful learning pattern that may be applied to future events. We intend to have this event from the 23 - 24 June, 2017 and we’ll closely monitor for about 2 months before planning the next place of training. The next phase of the project will involve moving to different countries and trying to emulate the success of the project there. We encourage you to visit and endorse the grant proposal <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/OFWA/African_Wikimedia_Developers> of our first training in Ghana here.[2] All interested in developing and/or wish to share ideas on projects are invited to join the mailing list <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedia-developers>, our social media outfit (facebook <https://www.facebook.com/AfricanWikimediaDevelopers/> and twitter <https://twitter.com/AfricanWikiDev>) or learn more via the MediaWiki page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_Project> of the project.[3][4][5] We encourage all to share this within their communities and to others who may be interested. Stay tuned for more updates soon! Cheers, -- *Felix Nartey* *Cofounder/Director Finance & Admin* *Open Foundation West Africa <https://openfoundationwestafrica.org/>* *+233242844987 | +447440959477* *Skype:Flixtey* [1] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_Project [2] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/ OFWA/African_Wikimedia_Developers [3] - https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african- wikimedia-developers [4] - https://www.facebook.com/AfricanWikimediaDevelopers/ [5] - https://twitter.com/AfricanWikiDev _______________________________________________ African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians

-- *Sherry-Ann L. Antoine, MPA* Program Manager and Outreach Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia (AfroCrowd) Afrocrowd.org p: (718) 772-4802 Sherryantoine(a)gmail.com Sherry(a)AfroCROWD.org Skype: Sherry37121 _______________________________________________ African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians

Felix Nartey

12:32 p.m.

Thank you all for your encouragement. @Isaac we will certainly check out the links shared and thanks for the endorsement. Cheers, On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 8:11 AM, Isaac Olatunde <reachout2isaac(a)gmail.com> wrote:

...

Greetings, The idea of training African on how to write and maintain script such as js coding, and fixing issues with script seem like a brilliant one to me. Thus, I have gone ahead and endorsed your proposal. I am also very happy that people would be trained on how to contribute to Wikimedia project as part of this project. From experience, engaging participants after event is usually not a very easy task, and I think this is one area I think we really need to work on. This is not a problem peculiar to Africa, it's a general problem. @Felix and Derrick, may I suggest that you take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wikicology/Adopt? I adapted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WormTT/Adopt/. To be honest with you, it really worked. User:Jaybakky <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jaybakky> and User:Amunique <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Amunique> continued to edit as a result of that method. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Special:Contributions/Amunique and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Special:Contributions/Jaybakky. Both user stopped editing after my banned from the English Wikipedia last year since I could no longer continue with them. One of them stopped in May during my ArbCom case and the other, less than a month after my banned. This is unfortunate but we just have to live with it. Many thanks to Felix and others for their continued effort to improving contributions from Africa and Derick for stepping in with a rare skill. United we stand, divided we fall! Regards, Isaac On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 6:10 PM, Sherry Antoine <sherryantoine(a)gmail.com> wrote:

This sounds awesome, Cheers, Sherry On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 5:59 PM Felix Nartey <flixtey(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Dear all, I am excited to introduce the African Wikimedia Developers Project (AWMD) <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_Project>.[1] AWMD is a project that focuses on recruiting volunteer African Developers for the benefit of the WIkimedia Movement. This idea was inspired by a conversation with Quim Gil at Wikimania Esino Lario in 2016, and was followed through to Wiki Indaba <http://2017.wikiindaba.net/> where talks was concluded on how to further put this to work. The project's main goal is to increase the number of volunteer developers who can solve related Wikimedia issues on the continent and in the movement at large. We intend to equip prospective volunteers through trainings and the creation of a community of developers. We will work closely with affiliate groups (user groups, chapters and thematic organisations) and other aligned developer groups (GDG, Linux user groups, mozilla groups, etc.) to push this agenda. To ensure scalability of the program we intend to start our first training in Ghana where we are adequately equipped to closely monitor and create a useful learning pattern that may be applied to future events. We intend to have this event from the 23 - 24 June, 2017 and we’ll closely monitor for about 2 months before planning the next place of training. The next phase of the project will involve moving to different countries and trying to emulate the success of the project there. We encourage you to visit and endorse the grant proposal <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/OFWA/African_Wikimedia_Developers> of our first training in Ghana here.[2] All interested in developing and/or wish to share ideas on projects are invited to join the mailing list <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedia-developers>, our social media outfit (facebook <https://www.facebook.com/AfricanWikimediaDevelopers/> and twitter <https://twitter.com/AfricanWikiDev>) or learn more via the MediaWiki page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_Project> of the project.[3][4][5] We encourage all to share this within their communities and to others who may be interested. Stay tuned for more updates soon! Cheers, -- *Felix Nartey* *Cofounder/Director Finance & Admin* *Open Foundation West Africa <https://openfoundationwestafrica.org/>* *+233242844987 <024%20284%204987> | +447440959477 <+44%207440%20959477>* *Skype:Flixtey* [1] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_ Project [2] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/OFWA/ African_Wikimedia_Developers [3] - https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimed ia-developers [4] - https://www.facebook.com/AfricanWikimediaDevelopers/ [5] - https://twitter.com/AfricanWikiDev _______________________________________________ African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians

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-- *Felix Nartey* *Cofounder/Director Finance & Admin* *Open Foundation West Africa <https://openfoundationwestafrica.org/>* *+233242844987 | +447440959477* *Skype:Flixtey*

Sam Oye

24 May 24 May

1:27 p.m.

This is such a great project; I'll endorse. I look forward to when it'd be coming to Nigeria, cos I'll gladly be part of it :). Sam. ________________________________ From: African-Wikimedians <african-wikimedians-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org> on behalf of Felix Nartey <flixtey(a)gmail.com> Sent: 23 May 2017 13:32:11 To: olatunde olalekan isaac; Mailing list for African Wikimedians Cc: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org; african-wikimedia-developers(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] African Wikimedia Developers Project Thank you all for your encouragement. @Isaac we will certainly check out the links shared and thanks for the endorsement. Cheers, On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 8:11 AM, Isaac Olatunde <reachout2isaac@gmail.com<mailto:reachout2isaac@gmail.com>> wrote: Greetings, The idea of training African on how to write and maintain script such as js coding, and fixing issues with script seem like a brilliant one to me. Thus, I have gone ahead and endorsed your proposal. I am also very happy that people would be trained on how to contribute to Wikimedia project as part of this project. From experience, engaging participants after event is usually not a very easy task, and I think this is one area I think we really need to work on. This is not a problem peculiar to Africa, it's a general problem. @Felix and Derrick, may I suggest that you take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wikicology/Adopt? I adapted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WormTT/Adopt/. To be honest with you, it really worked. User:Jaybakky<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jaybakky> and User:Amunique<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Amunique> continued to edit as a result of that method. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Amunique and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Jaybakky. Both user stopped editing after my banned from the English Wikipedia last year since I could no longer continue with them. One of them stopped in May during my ArbCom case and the other, less than a month after my banned. This is unfortunate but we just have to live with it. Many thanks to Felix and others for their continued effort to improving contributions from Africa and Derick for stepping in with a rare skill. United we stand, divided we fall! Regards, Isaac On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 6:10 PM, Sherry Antoine <sherryantoine@gmail.com<mailto:sherryantoine@gmail.com>> wrote: This sounds awesome, Cheers, Sherry On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 5:59 PM Felix Nartey <flixtey@gmail.com<mailto:flixtey@gmail.com>> wrote: Dear all, I am excited to introduce the African Wikimedia Developers Project (AWMD)<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_Projec… AWMD is a project that focuses on recruiting volunteer African Developers for the benefit of the WIkimedia Movement. This idea was inspired by a conversation with Quim Gil at Wikimania Esino Lario in 2016, and was followed through to Wiki Indaba<http://2017.wikiindaba.net/> where talks was concluded on how to further put this to work. The project's main goal is to increase the number of volunteer developers who can solve related Wikimedia issues on the continent and in the movement at large. We intend to equip prospective volunteers through trainings and the creation of a community of developers. We will work closely with affiliate groups (user groups, chapters and thematic organisations) and other aligned developer groups (GDG, Linux user groups, mozilla groups, etc.) to push this agenda. To ensure scalability of the program we intend to start our first training in Ghana where we are adequately equipped to closely monitor and create a useful learning pattern that may be applied to future events. We intend to have this event from the 23 - 24 June, 2017 and we’ll closely monitor for about 2 months before planning the next place of training. The next phase of the project will involve moving to different countries and trying to emulate the success of the project there. We encourage you to visit and endorse the grant proposal<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/OFWA/Afric… of our first training in Ghana here.[2] All interested in developing and/or wish to share ideas on projects are invited to join the mailing list<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedia-deve…rs>, our social media outfit (facebook<https://www.facebook.com/AfricanWikimediaDevelopers/> and twitter<https://twitter.com/AfricanWikiDev>) or learn more via the MediaWiki page<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_Project… of the project.[3][4][5] We encourage all to share this within their communities and to others who may be interested. Stay tuned for more updates soon! Cheers, -- Felix Nartey Cofounder/Director Finance & Admin Open Foundation West Africa<https://openfoundationwestafrica.org/> +233242844987<tel:024%20284%204987> | +447440959477<tel:+44%207440%20959477> Skype:Flixtey [1] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_Project [2] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/OFWA/African_Wikimedia… [3] - https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedia-developers [4] - https://www.facebook.com/AfricanWikimediaDevelopers/ [5] - https://twitter.com/AfricanWikiDev _______________________________________________ African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians -- Sherry-Ann L. Antoine, MPA Program Manager and Outreach Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia (AfroCrowd) Afrocrowd.org p: (718) 772-4802 Sherryantoine@gmail.com<mailto:Sherryantoine@gmail.com> Sherry(a)AfroCROWD.org Skype: Sherry37121 _______________________________________________ African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians _______________________________________________ African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:African-Wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians -- Felix Nartey Cofounder/Director Finance & Admin Open Foundation West Africa<https://openfoundationwestafrica.org/> +233242844987 | +447440959477 Skype:Flixtey

Samuel Guebo

6:35 p.m.

Hello everyone and thanks for your efforts in bringing this project to life. I just endorsed it. The Accra training is just some weeks away unfortunately. I would have loved to attend it. Wikimedia Cote d'Ivoire is working closely with a bunch of coders, living in Abidjan but also in other French-speaking regions in Africa such as Senegal, Burkina, etc. This project could serve as a bridge helping these developers embark on the wikimedia endeavour. Looking forward to organizing a similar training here. Cheers, On May 24, 2017 1:27 PM, "Sam Oye" <samoye_(a)hotmail.com> wrote: This is such a great project; I'll endorse. I look forward to when it'd be coming to Nigeria, cos I'll gladly be part of it :). Sam. ------------------------------ *From:* African-Wikimedians <african-wikimedians-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org> on behalf of Felix Nartey <flixtey(a)gmail.com> *Sent:* 23 May 2017 13:32:11 *To:* olatunde olalekan isaac; Mailing list for African Wikimedians *Cc:* wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org; african-wikimedia-developers@l ists.wikimedia.org *Subject:* Re: [African Wikimedians] African Wikimedia Developers Project Thank you all for your encouragement. @Isaac we will certainly check out the links shared and thanks for the endorsement. Cheers, On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 8:11 AM, Isaac Olatunde <reachout2isaac(a)gmail.com> wrote:

...

Greetings, The idea of training African on how to write and maintain script such as js coding, and fixing issues with script seem like a brilliant one to me. Thus, I have gone ahead and endorsed your proposal. I am also very happy that people would be trained on how to contribute to Wikimedia project as part of this project. From experience, engaging participants after event is usually not a very easy task, and I think this is one area I think we really need to work on. This is not a problem peculiar to Africa, it's a general problem. @Felix and Derrick, may I suggest that you take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wikicology/Adopt? I adapted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WormTT/Adopt/. To be honest with you, it really worked. User:Jaybakky <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jaybakky> and User:Amunique <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Amunique> continued to edit as a result of that method. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Special:Contributions/Amunique and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Special:Contributions/Jaybakky. Both user stopped editing after my banned from the English Wikipedia last year since I could no longer continue with them. One of them stopped in May during my ArbCom case and the other, less than a month after my banned. This is unfortunate but we just have to live with it. Many thanks to Felix and others for their continued effort to improving contributions from Africa and Derick for stepping in with a rare skill. United we stand, divided we fall! Regards, Isaac On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 6:10 PM, Sherry Antoine <sherryantoine(a)gmail.com> wrote:

This sounds awesome, Cheers, Sherry On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 5:59 PM Felix Nartey <flixtey(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Dear all, I am excited to introduce the African Wikimedia Developers Project (AWMD) <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_Project>.[1] AWMD is a project that focuses on recruiting volunteer African Developers for the benefit of the WIkimedia Movement. This idea was inspired by a conversation with Quim Gil at Wikimania Esino Lario in 2016, and was followed through to Wiki Indaba <http://2017.wikiindaba.net/> where talks was concluded on how to further put this to work. The project's main goal is to increase the number of volunteer developers who can solve related Wikimedia issues on the continent and in the movement at large. We intend to equip prospective volunteers through trainings and the creation of a community of developers. We will work closely with affiliate groups (user groups, chapters and thematic organisations) and other aligned developer groups (GDG, Linux user groups, mozilla groups, etc.) to push this agenda. To ensure scalability of the program we intend to start our first training in Ghana where we are adequately equipped to closely monitor and create a useful learning pattern that may be applied to future events. We intend to have this event from the 23 - 24 June, 2017 and we’ll closely monitor for about 2 months before planning the next place of training. The next phase of the project will involve moving to different countries and trying to emulate the success of the project there. We encourage you to visit and endorse the grant proposal <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/OFWA/African_Wikimedia_Developers> of our first training in Ghana here.[2] All interested in developing and/or wish to share ideas on projects are invited to join the mailing list <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedia-developers>, our social media outfit (facebook <https://www.facebook.com/AfricanWikimediaDevelopers/> and twitter <https://twitter.com/AfricanWikiDev>) or learn more via the MediaWiki page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_Project> of the project.[3][4][5] We encourage all to share this within their communities and to others who may be interested. Stay tuned for more updates soon! Cheers, -- *Felix Nartey* *Cofounder/Director Finance & Admin* *Open Foundation West Africa <https://openfoundationwestafrica.org/>* *+233242844987 <024%20284%204987> | +447440959477 <+44%207440%20959477>* *Skype:Flixtey* [1] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_ Project [2] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/OFWA/Af rican_Wikimedia_Developers [3] - https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimed ia-developers [4] - https://www.facebook.com/AfricanWikimediaDevelopers/ [5] - https://twitter.com/AfricanWikiDev _______________________________________________ African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians

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Felix Nartey

11:15 p.m.

Thanks for the endorsements Samuel and Sam. We are really excited to hear about your interest to participate in this as this exactly feeds into the model for the program. Which is to work closely with usergroups and chapters to ensure the success of the trainings. We will get in touch to further discuss how we can collaborate to get this done in Nigeria, Cote D'ivoire and the other countries mentioned. I encourage all those interested to sign up to the mailing list <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedia-developers> and continue discussions or brainstorm on plans to move this project forward. Kindly share with all those who might be interested but not on this thread. Cheers, On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 6:35 PM, Samuel Guebo <samuelguebo(a)gmail.com> wrote:

...

Hello everyone and thanks for your efforts in bringing this project to life. I just endorsed it. The Accra training is just some weeks away unfortunately. I would have loved to attend it. Wikimedia Cote d'Ivoire is working closely with a bunch of coders, living in Abidjan but also in other French-speaking regions in Africa such as Senegal, Burkina, etc. This project could serve as a bridge helping these developers embark on the wikimedia endeavour. Looking forward to organizing a similar training here. Cheers, On May 24, 2017 1:27 PM, "Sam Oye" <samoye_(a)hotmail.com> wrote: This is such a great project; I'll endorse. I look forward to when it'd be coming to Nigeria, cos I'll gladly be part of it :). Sam. ------------------------------ *From:* African-Wikimedians <african-wikimedians-bounces@l ists.wikimedia.org> on behalf of Felix Nartey <flixtey(a)gmail.com> *Sent:* 23 May 2017 13:32:11 *To:* olatunde olalekan isaac; Mailing list for African Wikimedians *Cc:* wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org; african-wikimedia-developers@l ists.wikimedia.org *Subject:* Re: [African Wikimedians] African Wikimedia Developers Project Thank you all for your encouragement. @Isaac we will certainly check out the links shared and thanks for the endorsement. Cheers, On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 8:11 AM, Isaac Olatunde <reachout2isaac(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Greetings, The idea of training African on how to write and maintain script such as js coding, and fixing issues with script seem like a brilliant one to me. Thus, I have gone ahead and endorsed your proposal. I am also very happy that people would be trained on how to contribute to Wikimedia project as part of this project. From experience, engaging participants after event is usually not a very easy task, and I think this is one area I think we really need to work on. This is not a problem peculiar to Africa, it's a general problem. @Felix and Derrick, may I suggest that you take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wikicology/Adopt? I adapted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WormTT/Adopt/. To be honest with you, it really worked. User:Jaybakky <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jaybakky> and User:Amunique <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Amunique> continued to edit as a result of that method. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Special:Contributions/Amunique and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Special:Contributions/Jaybakky. Both user stopped editing after my banned from the English Wikipedia last year since I could no longer continue with them. One of them stopped in May during my ArbCom case and the other, less than a month after my banned. This is unfortunate but we just have to live with it. Many thanks to Felix and others for their continued effort to improving contributions from Africa and Derick for stepping in with a rare skill. United we stand, divided we fall! Regards, Isaac On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 6:10 PM, Sherry Antoine <sherryantoine(a)gmail.com> wrote:

This sounds awesome, Cheers, Sherry On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 5:59 PM Felix Nartey <flixtey(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Dear all, I am excited to introduce the African Wikimedia Developers Project (AWMD) <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_Project>.[1] AWMD is a project that focuses on recruiting volunteer African Developers for the benefit of the WIkimedia Movement. This idea was inspired by a conversation with Quim Gil at Wikimania Esino Lario in 2016, and was followed through to Wiki Indaba <http://2017.wikiindaba.net/> where talks was concluded on how to further put this to work. The project's main goal is to increase the number of volunteer developers who can solve related Wikimedia issues on the continent and in the movement at large. We intend to equip prospective volunteers through trainings and the creation of a community of developers. We will work closely with affiliate groups (user groups, chapters and thematic organisations) and other aligned developer groups (GDG, Linux user groups, mozilla groups, etc.) to push this agenda. To ensure scalability of the program we intend to start our first training in Ghana where we are adequately equipped to closely monitor and create a useful learning pattern that may be applied to future events. We intend to have this event from the 23 - 24 June, 2017 and we’ll closely monitor for about 2 months before planning the next place of training. The next phase of the project will involve moving to different countries and trying to emulate the success of the project there. We encourage you to visit and endorse the grant proposal <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/OFWA/African_Wikimedia_Developers> of our first training in Ghana here.[2] All interested in developing and/or wish to share ideas on projects are invited to join the mailing list <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedia-developers>, our social media outfit (facebook <https://www.facebook.com/AfricanWikimediaDevelopers/> and twitter <https://twitter.com/AfricanWikiDev>) or learn more via the MediaWiki page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_Project> of the project.[3][4][5] We encourage all to share this within their communities and to others who may be interested. Stay tuned for more updates soon! Cheers, -- *Felix Nartey* *Cofounder/Director Finance & Admin* *Open Foundation West Africa <https://openfoundationwestafrica.org/>* *+233242844987 <024%20284%204987> | +447440959477 <+44%207440%20959477>* *Skype:Flixtey* [1] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_ Project [2] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/OFWA/Af rican_Wikimedia_Developers [3] - https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimed ia-developers [4] - https://www.facebook.com/AfricanWikimediaDevelopers/ [5] - https://twitter.com/AfricanWikiDev _______________________________________________ African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians

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Felix Nartey
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Sam Oye
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Sherry Antoine