Dear EduWikimedians,
*What’s happening in EduWiki Africa 2023*
The EduWiki Africa in partnership with the Wikipedia + Education User
Group is hosting an info Session to discuss what's happening in and around
Education in the Wikimedia movement.
We have exciting news and opportunities to share with you all.
This includes;
an overview about the Wikimedia Education and Wikipedia+Education User
Group; the role they play in advancing the goals of the Wikimedia
Foundation and how to become a member of the community;
launch of Kiwix4schools Africa Mentorship Program
update about the EduWiki Conference 2023 Serbia and lots more
Date: 14th February 2023
Time: 4:00 PM UTC
If you will like to be part of this session or have an announcement to make
/share about your Wikipedia + education project please fill out this form -
https://forms.gle/XN25QawokUuULu3J9
Thank you,
Bukola James
Special Advisor,
Wikipedia +Education UserGroup
Was the event recorded?
Do you have any how-to videos?
Due to covid in NYC, I have not been able to attend any in-person meetups.
Most of the in-person edit thons in NYC have been very basic and
introductory.
One session I attended online talked about adding commas to existing
Wikipedia articles. I personally thought this would not be a good way to
engage my community's involvement with Wikipedia. It would not interest
them to put their time into it. Maybe some 3rd graders.
I get very little advance training from local events in NYC. Most advanced
learning I get comes from attending Wikimania or the North America
conferences.
Local Wikipedia edit thons are usually just about getting people users
names, and how to do simple edits. Because of this I have had over the
years to teach myself.
I started a zoom wiki edit and study group during covid sheltering in
place. I share what I know, and my experience as a Wikipedia content
provider. The zoom group focuses mostly on adding relevant content of
interest to the African Diaspora community. We enjoy our discussions and
learning about new areas of interest by research and conversations via
zoom, texting, telephone conversations.
I need to learn more about the different tools available that I am not
using.
Due to covid and starting weekly zoom sessions my participation has grown,
and so have two other participants. It is like a club. They have gone from
going to a Wikipedia event maybe twice a year to meeting via zoom once a
week for almost 3 years. This has been a huge jump in participation and
Wikipedia involvement that they share within their circles.
It has been good for me too. I have not had to edit alone, which has
increased my Wikipedia involvement immensely also.
As a working group we have done Wikipedia articles about Africa even though
we are based in America, and are African Americans. We don't just focus on
our ethnicity. We have edited and compiled Wikipedia articles about Ghana
and Senegal. Learning about other places and communities. We have spent
lots of time studying African histories to edit and create these Wikipedia
articles.
We noticed that Senegal is very under represented, because it is French
speaking. We have researched and compiled a list of African scientists and
Inventors that have won awards. We did a few articles from this list and
wikidata entries. This effort is a work in progress.
I do want to expand and work with a couple of youth groups in my area.
African Americans are underrepresented in the Wikipedia movement, and so
are African American youth.
Please let me know of any Wikipedia youth campaign projects we can connect
with and participate.
Linda Fletcher Dabo
Please advise.
Thanks.
On Thu, Feb 2, 2023, 7:32 AM Eugene Masiku <emasiku(a)ofwafrica.org> wrote:
> For us at OFWA, we started the year with our annual impactful TOT
> workshop. We hosted all our hub leaders across the regions in Ghana to a
> two-day Train the Trainer session in Accra.
> The team was a blend of both experienced hub leads and new and potential
> hub leaders. The main objective of the workshop is to equip hub leaders
> with basic knowledge on how to manage their hubs as well as how to
> effectively deliver training to their members.
>
> The session entailed courses on Wikipedia, Wikidata tools and games,
> Wikimedia Commons, Hub Management, Movement Strategy and other courses.
> For more insights on the workshop, Kindly read the blog post on Diff here:
>
> https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/01/31/ofwa-hosts-train-the-trainers-session…
> https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/01/31/ofwa-hosts-train-the-trainers-session…
>
> Kind regards,
> Eugene Masiku
>
>
> --
> Eugene Makafui Masiku,
> Communications Officer
> Open Foundation West Africa
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