Hi Flo/Isla
I am and my team are so sad by the news that the Foundation will not be
funding Wiki Loves Women.
By all standards, this is one of the projects that have unified Africa as
an emerging community.
Nevertheless, we must stand by Wiki Loves Africa and ensure that it is
funded...
@Felix and Co, thank you for the initiative (your project) . We are behind
you!!!
Best
Olushola
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I look forward to the success of Wiki Loves Africa, this year. The
rejection of Wiki Loves Women is truly disappointing :(.
Sam.
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Sent: 23 May 2017 13:45:41
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Subject: [African Wikimedians] Wiki Loves Africa 2016 and beyond : your
input needed
Hello guys
We would like to invite all WLAf 2016 team leaders to answer our Team
Survey.
This year, we decided to put it directly on meta (you will not get a
google form).
LINK :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Team_survey
Please provide a feedback at the very earliest convenience (strong
emphasis on "earliest")
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FOR ALL Africa community members
Please directly head to the last question 3 below our team survey. The
Theme for WLAf 2017
LINK :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Team_
survey#The_Theme_for_WLAf_2017
Context: the committee approving the Projects Grant Requests is meeting
this week-end to make final decisions. You should know that Wiki Loves
Africa project is not yet approved for funding (crossing fingers) and that
our proposition for Wiki Loves Women funding has been rejected. The
committee did not consider it a worth-supporting project. Disappointing.
But fine.
Accordingly, we are boldly suggesting a theme that could be somehow
tweaked in such a manner that we could also address gender gap issues
through Wiki Loves Africa this year.
Our suggestion is to push for year 2017 the theme : PEOPLE AT WORK.
More context may be found here in a few pages, which I recommand you to
have a look:
* A really cool tool made by Envel after a conference I gave about Africa
and women, based on my suspicion that we mostly had biographies about porn
and sport women (lol) :
http://tools.dicare.org/gaps/gender.php
* Explanation about the tool :
https://www.lehir.net/a-tool-t
o-estimate-gender-gap-on-wikidata-and-wikipedia/
* And category tree ... :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/
wiki/Category:Women_at_work_by_occupation
Of course, if that theme, PEOPLE AT WORK, is chosen, we would not limit
ourselves for women. Men at work, women at work, transgendered at work,
children at work (unfortunately) etc. would be welcome.
What do you think ? Everyone feedback is welcome. This includes people who
did not participate to WLAf previous years. And this can include AfroCROWD
of course ;)
If there is enough support, there will not be a "call for themes and
votes" this year as we did last year. If we have a good enough support, we
will add the theme in the WLAf grant request asap.
Florence and Isla