User:Olaniyan Shola actually spoke my mind. I thought of Wikidaba last week and I asked myself why we couldn't organize such a meetup for African Wikimedians again but I couldn't find any brilliant answer to my question. Is Wikidaba dead? Although, I never participated in the maiden edition but my colleagues returned to Nigeria with a motivating experience. This year is almost over but we can plan against next year. Let's not kill the spirit of Wikidaba!!!
Olatunde Isaac,
Secretary WU NG Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN
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Message: 1 Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 10:56:49 +0100 From: Florence Devouard anthere@anthere.org To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [African Wikimedians] Fwd: Re: Help needed identifying African or Black science and Tech innovators Message-ID: 5667FAE1.2010003@anthere.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed"
-------- Message transféré -------- Sujet : Re: [African Wikimedians] Help needed identifying African or Black science and Tech innovators Date : Wed, 9 Dec 2015 10:55:51 +0100 De : Florence Devouard anthere@anthere.org Répondre à : Mailing list for African Wikimedians african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org Pour : Mailing list for African Wikimedians african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org
Le 09/12/15 10:42, Florence Devouard a écrit :
Hello
Ok Rexford and Oral. Advertisment it is. Fine. We can live with it as long as it is not too frequent and too pushy ;) The goal and the mission is commandable. So I REALLY wish you success in that business.
TWO little requests though (not recommandations, requests :)).
- Trademark issue
On the little page of presentation https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZHuuWFwKGxQ1Gnn2DguzlgljZ5ylQwnX2vt-8LUq...
You introduce Afropedia as, I quote,
" *Oral Ofori is also an editor on Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Oralofori; the global encyclopaedia and its African version; Afropedia http://www.worldafropedia.comwhere #TheAfricanDream helps to create articles for Africa." *Afropedia is NOT the African version of Wikipedia. It is unrelated to Wikipedia, it is not even under a free licence*. I*would be surprised to hear that it is considered an "affiliate" project. So, your introduction to Afropedia is misleading and this needs to be clarified. This point is easy to fix 2. Licence issue http://www.worldafropedia.com is published under a non-commercial licence. Yet.... after a quick checking, most of its content is clearly a copy paste from Wikipedia. As in http://www.worldafropedia.com/afropedia/Adja-Ou%C3%A8r%C3%A8 So, you violate terms of Wikipedia licence for two reasons 1. You republish a content originally under a free licence, under a non free licence 2. You do not cite the source, nor the names of the original authors That point is a bit more tricky that the above one... but need to be addressed. **
Note that this extend to pictures. For example https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kent_wove.jpg English: Kente weaving is a traditional craft among the Ashanti people of Ghana. A kente cloths is sewn together from many narrow (about 10 centimetres (3.9 in) wide) kente stripes. This image shows different patterns of typical Ashanti Kente stripes. Date 14 January 2010 (original upload date) Source Own work Author User:Bottracker
and http://www.worldafropedia.com/afropedia/File:Kent_wove.jpg 03:43, 26 January 2011 Thumbnail for version as of 03:43, 26 January 2011 371 × 513 (356 KB) Kofi (Talk | contribs)
Florence
Well this has been a question always on my mind.Wiki Indaba was a success irrespective of other matters arising I strongly believe it shouldn't be a one time thing.I understand it was made a biannual even meaning it should happen next year.Are there any such plans in place?
Sent from my iPhone
On 9 Dec 2015, at 14:09, olatunde isaac reachout2isaac@gmail.com wrote:
User:Olaniyan Shola actually spoke my mind. I thought of Wikidaba last week and I asked myself why we couldn't organize such a meetup for African Wikimedians again but I couldn't find any brilliant answer to my question. Is Wikidaba dead? Although, I never participated in the maiden edition but my colleagues returned to Nigeria with a motivating experience. This year is almost over but we can plan against next year. Let's not kill the spirit of Wikidaba!!!
Olatunde Isaac,
Secretary WU NG Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN
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- Re: The Spirit of Wikindaba (Olaniyan Olushola)
- Re: Help needed identifying African or Black science and Tech innovators (Florence Devouard)
Message: 1 Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 10:56:49 +0100 From: Florence Devouard anthere@anthere.org To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [African Wikimedians] Fwd: Re: Help needed identifying African or Black science and Tech innovators Message-ID: 5667FAE1.2010003@anthere.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed"
-------- Message transféré -------- Sujet : Re: [African Wikimedians] Help needed identifying African or Black science and Tech innovators Date : Wed, 9 Dec 2015 10:55:51 +0100 De : Florence Devouard anthere@anthere.org Répondre à : Mailing list for African Wikimedians african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org Pour : Mailing list for African Wikimedians african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org
Le 09/12/15 10:42, Florence Devouard a écrit :
Hello
Ok Rexford and Oral. Advertisment it is. Fine. We can live with it as long as it is not too frequent and too pushy ;) The goal and the mission is commandable. So I REALLY wish you success in that business.
TWO little requests though (not recommandations, requests :)).
- Trademark issue
On the little page of presentation https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZHuuWFwKGxQ1Gnn2DguzlgljZ5ylQwnX2vt-8LUq...
You introduce Afropedia as, I quote,
" *Oral Ofori is also an editor on Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Oralofori; the global encyclopaedia and its African version; Afropedia http://www.worldafropedia.comwhere #TheAfricanDream helps to create articles for Africa." *Afropedia is NOT the African version of Wikipedia. It is unrelated to Wikipedia, it is not even under a free licence*. I*would be surprised to hear that it is considered an "affiliate" project. So, your introduction to Afropedia is misleading and this needs to be clarified. This point is easy to fix 2. Licence issue http://www.worldafropedia.com is published under a non-commercial licence. Yet.... after a quick checking, most of its content is clearly a copy paste from Wikipedia. As in http://www.worldafropedia.com/afropedia/Adja-Ou%C3%A8r%C3%A8 So, you violate terms of Wikipedia licence for two reasons 1. You republish a content originally under a free licence, under a non free licence 2. You do not cite the source, nor the names of the original authors That point is a bit more tricky that the above one... but need to be addressed. **
Note that this extend to pictures. For example https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kent_wove.jpg English: Kente weaving is a traditional craft among the Ashanti people of Ghana. A kente cloths is sewn together from many narrow (about 10 centimetres (3.9 in) wide) kente stripes. This image shows different patterns of typical Ashanti Kente stripes. Date 14 January 2010 (original upload date) Source Own work Author User:Bottracker
and http://www.worldafropedia.com/afropedia/File:Kent_wove.jpg 03:43, 26 January 2011 Thumbnail for version as of 03:43, 26 January 2011 371 × 513 (356 KB) Kofi (Talk | contribs)
Florence
Well i concur with the discourse on here. I think for me, it was the beginning of my journey as a Wikimedian.
Wikiindaba contributed immensely to my current standing, it was a great eye opener. For me, not everyone may get the opportunity to be at other Wikimedia related conferences so this is a perfect platform to discuss issues that pertain to our region or even an opportunity to be trained and understand what the whole movement is about.
I was somewhat new when i attended my first and that's where i learnt everything (grant making, reporting, basics of editing, planning activities, etc.). i wish it comes off next year so many can benefit from it.
best, Felix
On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Raphael Berchie rberchie@gmail.com wrote:
Well this has been a question always on my mind.Wiki Indaba was a success irrespective of other matters arising I strongly believe it shouldn't be a one time thing.I understand it was made a biannual even meaning it should happen next year.Are there any such plans in place?
Sent from my iPhone
On 9 Dec 2015, at 14:09, olatunde isaac reachout2isaac@gmail.com
wrote:
User:Olaniyan Shola actually spoke my mind. I thought of Wikidaba last
week and I asked myself why we couldn't organize such a meetup for African Wikimedians again but I couldn't find any brilliant answer to my question. Is Wikidaba dead? Although, I never participated in the maiden edition but my colleagues returned to Nigeria with a motivating experience. This year is almost over but we can plan against next year. Let's not kill the spirit of Wikidaba!!!
Olatunde Isaac,
Secretary WU NG Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN
-----Original Message----- From: african-wikimedians-request@lists.wikimedia.org Sender: "African-Wikimedians" <
african-wikimedians-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org>Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2015 10:15:32
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- Re: The Spirit of Wikindaba (Olaniyan Olushola)
- Re: Help needed identifying African or Black science and Tech innovators (Florence Devouard)
Message: 1 Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 10:56:49 +0100 From: Florence Devouard anthere@anthere.org To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [African Wikimedians] Fwd: Re: Help needed identifying African or Black science and Tech innovators Message-ID: 5667FAE1.2010003@anthere.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed"
-------- Message transféré -------- Sujet : Re: [African Wikimedians] Help needed identifying African or Black science and Tech innovators Date : Wed, 9 Dec 2015 10:55:51 +0100 De : Florence Devouard anthere@anthere.org Répondre à : Mailing list for African Wikimedians african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org Pour : Mailing list for African Wikimedians african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org
Le 09/12/15 10:42, Florence Devouard a écrit :
Hello
Ok Rexford and Oral. Advertisment it is. Fine. We can live with it as long as it is not too frequent and too pushy ;) The goal and the mission is commandable. So I REALLY wish you success in that business.
TWO little requests though (not recommandations, requests :)).
- Trademark issue
On the little page of presentation
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZHuuWFwKGxQ1Gnn2DguzlgljZ5ylQwnX2vt-8LUq...
You introduce Afropedia as, I quote,
" *Oral Ofori is also an editor on Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Oralofori; the global encyclopaedia and its African version; Afropedia http://www.worldafropedia.comwhere #TheAfricanDream helps to create articles for Africa." *Afropedia is NOT the African version of Wikipedia. It is unrelated to Wikipedia, it is not even under a free licence*. I*would be surprised to hear that it is considered an "affiliate" project. So, your introduction to Afropedia is misleading and this needs to be clarified. This point is easy to fix 2. Licence issue http://www.worldafropedia.com is published under a non-commercial licence. Yet.... after a quick checking, most of its content is clearly a copy paste from Wikipedia. As in http://www.worldafropedia.com/afropedia/Adja-Ou%C3%A8r%C3%A8 So, you violate terms of Wikipedia licence for two reasons 1. You republish a content originally under a free licence, under a non free licence 2. You do not cite the source, nor the names of the original authors That point is a bit more tricky that the above one... but need to be addressed. **
Note that this extend to pictures. For example https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kent_wove.jpg English: Kente weaving is a traditional craft among the Ashanti people of Ghana. A kente cloths is sewn together from many narrow (about 10 centimetres (3.9 in) wide) kente stripes. This image shows different patterns of typical Ashanti Kente stripes. Date 14 January 2010 (original upload date) Source Own work Author User:Bottracker
and http://www.worldafropedia.com/afropedia/File:Kent_wove.jpg 03:43, 26 January 2011 Thumbnail for version as of 03:43, 26 January 2011 371 × 513 (356 KB) Kofi (Talk | contribs)
Florence
On the note of this, I think it'll be worth doing another wiki indaba.
I don't know if there's been discussions on where to host it, but I am confident of a place that can host wiki indaba in Koforidua at an affordable price..
Should Wiki Indaba be considered to happen, I think Ghana will place in slot to host.
On Wed, Dec 9, 2015, 15:49 Felix Nartey flixtey@gmail.com wrote:
Well i concur with the discourse on here. I think for me, it was the beginning of my journey as a Wikimedian.
Wikiindaba contributed immensely to my current standing, it was a great eye opener. For me, not everyone may get the opportunity to be at other Wikimedia related conferences so this is a perfect platform to discuss issues that pertain to our region or even an opportunity to be trained and understand what the whole movement is about.
I was somewhat new when i attended my first and that's where i learnt everything (grant making, reporting, basics of editing, planning activities, etc.). i wish it comes off next year so many can benefit from it.
best, Felix
On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Raphael Berchie rberchie@gmail.com wrote:
Well this has been a question always on my mind.Wiki Indaba was a success irrespective of other matters arising I strongly believe it shouldn't be a one time thing.I understand it was made a biannual even meaning it should happen next year.Are there any such plans in place?
Sent from my iPhone
On 9 Dec 2015, at 14:09, olatunde isaac reachout2isaac@gmail.com
wrote:
User:Olaniyan Shola actually spoke my mind. I thought of Wikidaba last
week and I asked myself why we couldn't organize such a meetup for African Wikimedians again but I couldn't find any brilliant answer to my question. Is Wikidaba dead? Although, I never participated in the maiden edition but my colleagues returned to Nigeria with a motivating experience. This year is almost over but we can plan against next year. Let's not kill the spirit of Wikidaba!!!
Olatunde Isaac,
Secretary WU NG Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN
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- Re: The Spirit of Wikindaba (Olaniyan Olushola)
- Re: Help needed identifying African or Black science and Tech innovators (Florence Devouard)
Message: 1 Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 10:56:49 +0100 From: Florence Devouard anthere@anthere.org To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [African Wikimedians] Fwd: Re: Help needed identifying African or Black science and Tech innovators Message-ID: 5667FAE1.2010003@anthere.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed"
-------- Message transféré -------- Sujet : Re: [African Wikimedians] Help needed identifying African or Black science and Tech innovators Date : Wed, 9 Dec 2015 10:55:51 +0100 De : Florence Devouard anthere@anthere.org Répondre à : Mailing list for African Wikimedians african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org Pour : Mailing list for African Wikimedians african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org
Le 09/12/15 10:42, Florence Devouard a écrit :
Hello
Ok Rexford and Oral. Advertisment it is. Fine. We can live with it as long as it is not too frequent and too pushy ;) The goal and the mission is commandable. So I REALLY wish you success in that business.
TWO little requests though (not recommandations, requests :)).
- Trademark issue
On the little page of presentation
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZHuuWFwKGxQ1Gnn2DguzlgljZ5ylQwnX2vt-8LUq...
You introduce Afropedia as, I quote,
" *Oral Ofori is also an editor on Wikipedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Oralofori; the global encyclopaedia and its African version; Afropedia http://www.worldafropedia.comwhere #TheAfricanDream helps to create articles for Africa." *Afropedia is NOT the African version of Wikipedia. It is unrelated to Wikipedia, it is not even under a free licence*. I*would be surprised to hear that it is considered an "affiliate" project. So, your introduction to Afropedia is misleading and this needs to be clarified. This point is easy to fix 2. Licence issue http://www.worldafropedia.com is published under a non-commercial licence. Yet.... after a quick checking, most of its content is clearly a copy paste from Wikipedia. As in http://www.worldafropedia.com/afropedia/Adja-Ou%C3%A8r%C3%A8 So, you violate terms of Wikipedia licence for two reasons 1. You republish a content originally under a free licence, under a non free licence 2. You do not cite the source, nor the names of the original authors That point is a bit more tricky that the above one... but need to be addressed. **
Note that this extend to pictures. For example https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kent_wove.jpg English: Kente weaving is a traditional craft among the Ashanti people of Ghana. A kente cloths is sewn together from many narrow (about 10 centimetres (3.9 in) wide) kente stripes. This image shows different patterns of typical Ashanti Kente stripes. Date 14 January 2010 (original upload date) Source Own work Author User:Bottracker
and http://www.worldafropedia.com/afropedia/File:Kent_wove.jpg 03:43, 26 January 2011 Thumbnail for version as of 03:43, 26 January 2011 371 × 513 (356 KB) Kofi (Talk | contribs)
Florence
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