OFWA June 2022

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Africa Wiki Challenge 2022 - Final Virtual Office Hours

by Eugene Masiku

Hello Wikimedians, We are excited to let you know that this year’s Africa Wiki Challenge <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Wiki_Challenge_2022> will come to an end on the *30th of June 2022*. However, we will be hosting our final virtual office hour on *Friday, 1st July, 2022. *We are looking forward to discussing your experiences as organizers, spectators and participants of the contest. So far, we have had *two hundred and twent*y *(220) editors *creating* three thousand seven hundred and fifty (3,750) articles and editing sixteen thousand (16,000) *articles surrounding the theme* "Projectiing African Culture" as recorded by the dashboard <https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/africa_wiki_challenge_2022/…>.* Join us for our virtual office hour on *Friday, 1st July 2022* at *15:00 UTC*. *Date: Friday, 1st July 2022* *Time:* *15:00 UTC* *Meeting link*: https://bit.ly/39IfJkQ -- Eugene Makafui Masiku, Communications Officer Open Foundation West Africa

1 year, 9 months

African Wikimedia Developers Project - Change Of Name

by Eugene Masiku

Organisers of the African Wikimedia Developers Project would like to change the official name and subscription email list of the *"**African Wikimedia Developers Project"* to "*African Wikimedia Technical Community."* We are in the process of re-branding the whole project into a technical community that will be focusing on grooming and managing technical contributors in Africa. So far, we have been able to grow a technical community which involves not only developers but other technical contributors such as* Designers, translators for localization, Documentation writers, Data Science Professionals* (*Data Scientists,Data Analysts, Machine Learning Engineers, AI professionals and NLP Specialists*) and *QA engineers* from *Automated Testers* to *Manual Testers.* With these professionals in this community and some tech enthusiasts who are willing to learn and contribute to the movement technically, we are looking forward to broadening this project into a technical community to focus on all technical areas aside the developers contributions to the Wikimedia movement as a whole. We would like to change the name of the project from "African Wikimedia Developers Project" to "*African Wikimedia Technical Community*", to ensure that the aforementioned contributors can also be a part of the project. We are looking forward to updating the whole mediawiki page and meta page for the current AWMD project with the new name. To help us with this transition phase, we would like you to kindly fill the survey below. Survey : https://forms.gle/3fQKu7bqQcsVK2QL6 We will appreciate your effort in filling the form to help us with this transition. Thank You. Kind Regards -- Eugene Makafui Masiku, Communications Officer Open Foundation West Africa

1 year, 10 months

Fwd: [New post] Open Call for Wikimania Volunteers

by Ruby Damenshie-Brown

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Diff <donotreply(a)wordpress.com> Date: Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 2:49 PM Subject: [New post] Open Call for Wikimania Volunteers To: <rubysuccess2020(a)gmail.com> [image: Site logo image] Wikimania Core Organizing Team posted: " The Wikimania 2022 Core Organizing Team wants to work with you! Sign up to join us at the Wikimania Festival (August 11-14) to support in one of the following roles: Trust and Safety: remind people of the Friendly Space Policy and serve as a resou" Diff <https://diff.wikimedia.org> Open Call for Wikimania Volunteers <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/06/03/open-call-for-wikimania-volunteers/> Wikimania Core Organizing Team Jun 3 <https://diff.wikimedia.org/?attachment_id=75171> The Wikimania 2022 Core Organizing Team wants to work with you! Sign up to join us at the Wikimania Festival (August 11-14) to support in one of the following roles: 1. *Trust and Safety:* *remind people of the Friendly Space Policy and serve as a resource for anyone needing support* 2. *Session Q&A Facilitators: **Relay audience questions to the speakers and help speakers manage their question queue* 3. *Tent Managers:* *Help manage spaces like the Hackathon, Community Village and more* 4. *Help Desk: **Staff the central area for attendees to go if they have any questions about programming, platform, languages and more* 5. *Newcomer Host:* *Run activities and host sessions that welcome first-time Wikimania attendees – be a buddy to a newcomer* 6. *Newcomer Desk:* *Answer any questions and provide support to first-time Wikimania attendees* We will provide training for all volunteers – no prior experience is necessary. The hours will be flexible and based on your availability, but we do prefer that volunteers support at least six hours during the event. Please note that the working language of the Wikimania organizers is English. Sign Up using this survey! <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfrZzRyTj6ZTNCCBCpI5SpZxk98X6EsEYp…> Don’t see the area you’d like to support in? Feel free to add it to the survey. We look forward to celebrating with you at this year’s Wikimania Festival! Comment <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/06/03/open-call-for-wikimania-volunteers/#r…> ------------------------------ Unsubscribe <https://public-api.wordpress.com/bar/?stat=groovemails-events&bin=wpcom_ema…> to no longer receive posts from Diff. Change your email settings at manage subscriptions. <https://public-api.wordpress.com/bar/?stat=groovemails-events&bin=wpcom_ema…> Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/06/03/open-call-for-wikimania-volunteers/ Powered by Jetpack <https://public-api.wordpress.com/bar/?stat=groovemails-events&bin=wpcom_ema…> [image: Download on the App Store] <https://public-api.wordpress.com/bar/?stat=groovemails-events&bin=wpcom_ema…> [image: Get it on Google Play] <https://public-api.wordpress.com/bar/?stat=groovemails-events&bin=wpcom_ema…>

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