Dear All, WU NG is putting her wait behind the annual hosting and I think Ghana Team, should come up with their time plan asap so that we can move forward on this discussion. Thanks. Olaniyan Olushola Director, WUGN Treasurer, FOSSFA MD, Olbims Consulting Phone: +2348154876844 Email: olaniyanshola15(a)gmail.com Email: olaniyanshola(a)yahoo.com Email:treasurer@fossfa.net Wiki: User name :Olaniyan Olushola Facebook: Olaniyan Shola Twitter :Oluwanishola73 Original Message From: african-wikimedians-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, April 5, 2016 2:48 PM To: african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org Reply To: african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: African-Wikimedians Digest, Vol 8, Issue 57 Send African-Wikimedians mailing list submissions to african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to african-wikimedians-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at african-wikimedians-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of African-Wikimedians digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: My Thoughts on Wikiindaba (Isla Haddow Flood) (Ingo Koll) 2. Notice: 80kb+ sized emails immediately discarded (Nkansah Rexford) 3. Re: Notice: 80kb+ sized emails immediately discarded (Florence Devouard) 4. Re: Notice: 80kb+ sized emails immediately discarded (Nkansah Rexford) 5. Re: Notice: 80kb+ sized emails immediately discarded (Nkansah Rexford) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 17:40:19 +0430 From: "Ingo Koll" &lt;ikoll(a)gmx.de&gt; To: &lt;african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] My Thoughts on Wikiindaba (Isla Haddow Flood) Message-ID: <001e01d18e73$57ae02a0$070a07e0$@de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" I agree. Annual or at least biannual should be the way. Initiative from Ghana very welcome and refreshing after months of wailing. Greetings from Swahili subcontinent Ingo - Kipala From: Isla Haddow Flood &lt;isla(a)wikiloveswomen.org&gt; To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians &lt;african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] My Thoughts on Wikiindaba Message-ID: &lt;36B8552F-CC82-48F2-AE31-DB1B5647722A(a)wikiloveswomen.org&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" I agree with the others … 4 years is far too long to wait. I think that you can only have it every year or every second year, or not at all. Too much happens in a year for us to wait 4 years for something. I fully support holding Wiki Indaba this year, and well done Ghana!! donatien.kanga(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: year. So we agree with Ghana. rberchie(a)gmail.com&gt;&gt;t;>: personally think that will be quite a long time.I however wish to state that team Ghana is ready to host the next Indaba later this year if we have the support from other countries.I believe it is a clarion call because if Indaba is not hosted this year we may have to wait until 2018.I hope we will have the needed support from other teams in our bid to host it. better idea to host wiki indaba once every four years? and what we are capable off, based on our experience. It will also afford us time to measure impact and success of the conference. the event arrangement rolling. biennial, but i believe it's for good reasons. flixtey(a)gmail.com&gt;&gt; wrote: even though I share in this same concern I advice that we be circumspect in our decision or plans towards it. held, we host this event every other year as initially proposed by Wikimedia ZA after the conference. I think this will afford us ample time to measure our exploits or pull enough feedback before our next request for the conference. that proposes that Wikimania be held every other year starting 2017, meaning communities or regional events in 2018 and 2020 in that order. I am not saying we can't defile the status quo, but I think we can have a better case after we have shown our exploits and what we are capable off, based on our experience. It will also afford us time to measure impact and success of the conference. this year (2016) as part of the initial plan to host it every other year, or wait till 2018 to perfectly align with the restructuring of Wikimania and regional events (i stand to be corrected). Lastly I think it will be in our own interest to have a body (committee) that confers with the entire community and show responsibility for Wikindaba. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Indaba> for a possible committee I have been working on - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Indaba < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Indaba>gt;. Kindly add your voice and thoughts on what is possible. Isla Haddow-Flood Project Manager Username: Islahaddow