Hello Community,
Let's take our time to vote!
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From: Mehrdad Pourzaki <mpourzaki(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 11:38 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Vote for your favourite sound logo
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
A reminder that the sound logo vote
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Sound_Logo_Vote> is open until
December 19, 23:59 UTC, please play a part in choosing the sound of
Wikimedia.
It's been an informative two weeks. There were some glitches along the way
and not everyone found the voting process intuitive, yet nearly 2000 people
have taken part already. A huge thank you. We knew we would be learning
together at every step embarking on this novel project more than a year
ago, and especially in the past 10 months or so. Thanks to many of you who
contributed along the way, we are humbled and grateful by the support and
participation. Once the vote closes and the results have been cleaned up
and tallied, there needs to be legal reviews, contracting, and due
diligence before the winner is officially announced. We are aiming for late
February to April, 2023.
Once again, many thanks on behalf of the sound logo team.
Best regards,
Mehrdad
*Mehrdad Pourzaki*
Lead Movement Communications Specialist
wikimediafoundation.org
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Ruby D-Brown
Administrative Executive
Open Foundation West Africa
ofwafrica.org
Dear Community Member,
It is awesome to still have you as a part of the OFWA family, is that time
of the year again when we extend our gratitude to everyone for sticking
with us throughout the year.
We greatly appreciate your dedicated hours of service and loyalty to our
community. We are proud of each one of you for never giving up and
supporting us to the end of the year.
We’d really love it if you share your experience with us. How do you feel
about spending 1 minute of your time to help us improve our engagement with
you <https://forms.gle/m6ibCPVYihc6X7X96>? Here is the link to the
Community Evaluation Survey: https://forms.gle/m6ibCPVYihc6X7X96
Also, are you a registered member of our community? Have you been
participating in our events without officially registering with us? For us
to recognize you as a community member, kindly fill out the form using this
link <https://bit.ly/3hQMct6>. Here is the link to the OFWA membership
form: https://bit.ly/3hQMct6
Also, are you aware of the OFWA membership tiers, the Active member's tier,
and the Members tier) based on your contribution?? Take a sneak peek at our
infographic that describes the OFWA Volunteer Journey.
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rthu8v_Hf8XdRbl-Twm92eLXK0uEAJ0H/view?usp=…>
Here
is the link to our membership Tier infographic:https://bit.ly/3V1Rlgv
Also, have you subscribed to our newsletter? Will you love to receive
community updates? Take subscribe to the OFWA newsletter
<https://ofwafrica.us14.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=072f80aeb6b90c020a456d8a…>
*. *Link to newsletter subscription:https://bit.ly/3AmRgfu
Lastly, have you joined our main WhatsApp groups? Get to interact with
other community members and get more updates and information as well.
Join OFWA Main WhatsApp group here:
https://chat.whatsapp.com/BJs3CDJwdH900ConJyHf3i
Have a wonderful month!
Cheers!
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Ruby D-Brown
Programs Officer
Open Foundation West Africa
ofwafrica.org
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From: Butch Bustria <bustrias(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 8:34 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN)
meeting this 13 November (Sunday)
To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
Wikimania general list (open subscription) <wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
Asian Wikimedia Chapters coordination <
wikimedia-asia-chapters(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <eseap(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi,
We have a Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) meeting this 13
November 2022 (Sunday)
We have two meeting times to cater two major time zone blocks.
The two times are:
- 02:00 UTC <https://iw.toolforge.org/zonestamp/1668304800>, 2022-11-13
(Asia-Pacific friendly time)
- 16:00 UTC <https://iw.toolforge.org/zonestamp/1668355200>, 2022-11-13
(Europe-Africa-Americas friendly time)
The agenda are:
· Wikimedia Research Fund
· 2023 Ombuds commission and Case Review Committee appointments process
· Feedback on consultation and community session of the Movement Charter
Drafting Committee
· Wikimania
· Ideas/ suggestions for Wikimania 2023
· Expressions of interest for Wikimania 2024 and beyond
· Expressions of interest to join Wikimania Steering Committee
For signup and meeting link, go to the SWAN page at Meta-wiki:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Wikimedia_Affiliates_Network
Thanks.
Kind regards
Butch Bustria
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Ruby D-Brown
Administrative Executive
Open Foundation West Africa
ofwafrica.org
Hello Fellow Wikimedians,
We have successfully drawn the curtains on this year's Africa Wiki Challenge
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Wiki_Challenge_2022> and we need
your help in assessing the contest.
Did you participate as an editor, organizer or contributor? We would
appreciate your views on our performances right from the preparatory stages
to the final stages of the contest.
What were some of the challenges you faced as an organizer or a
participant?
Kindly complete the AWC Feedback Form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1OVIEVw25fJLqrRjtA-yE77ivctOaq34hhJOA-h8V1Z…>
to help us improve on our subsequent contests.
Also, as part of the feedback form, we have also included some proposed
themes for you to vote on for the organizing of the third version of the
contest next year. We want to make you a part of the AWC franchise by
giving you the opportunity to vote on the next theme for the contest.
*JURY CALL UP*
We are also placing a call for members to participate and be a part of this
year’s AWC jury in the following languages: Arabic, Hausa, and French.
Interested African Wikimedians can send messages of interest via email to
emasiku(a)ofwafrica.org or clarmie(a)ofwafrica.org
Cheers,
Eugene
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Eugene Makafui Masiku,
Communications Officer
Open Foundation West Africa
Dear Community Members
The 2022 African Wikimedia Technical Community Hackathon which is a hybrid
event is scheduled to take place on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th July 2022
respectively.
We will be introducing the following contribution areas during the
hackathon: website, security, front-end, back-end, documentation and
translation. By participating in the hackathon, you have the opportunity to
work on issues that matter to you and advance your skills/experience while
joining this regional, diverse and inclusive team of contributors and the
African Wikimedia Technical team members.
This event is calling on volunteers who are interested in Wikimedia’s
technical areas such as code creators, maintainers, translators, technical
writers and other technical roles.
By this email, we are placing a call on volunteers who are willing to lead
and host sessions. These sessions can be under any Wikimedia technical
project, topic or technical area of interest like, Wikidata, translation,
etc.
You are welcome to bring a new project on board or join an existing
project, or create something new with others.
The choice is yours!
You are by this email invited to participate in this year’s Hackathon.
Kindly fill out this form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1zNaTqJZ24e8knuJkLepNcV4WDkwDOiSLnPGRwi40Od…>to
participate as well as give details of your Session if you are interested
in organizing one.
For more information, visit our meta page.
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Open_Foundation_West_Africa_Community_Hackat…>
Date: Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th July 2022.
Venue: OFWA Premises, Opp Bosphorus, Labone
Time: 10:00 UTC - 15: 00 UTC
NB: For those who will be joining us virtually, a link will be shared soon.
Best Regards
[image: AWMT Final flyer.png]
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Eugene Makafui Masiku,
Communications Officer
Open Foundation West Africa
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
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Eugene Makafui Masiku,
Communications Officer
Open Foundation West Africa
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
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Eugene Makafui Masiku,
Communications Officer
Open Foundation West Africa
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From: Imelda Brazal <ibrazal-ctr(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 5:03 PM
Subject: [African Wikimedians] Campaigns Product Team Office Hour - March
31, 2022
To: <african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello African Wikimedians!
The *Campaigns Product Team *will be hosting the next office hour to share
exciting updates on the Registration Tool
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Product_Team/Registrat…>
and new proposed namespaces for events. We will also be sharing community
updates on the usability tests and design highlights of the latest mobile
and desktop wireframes.
Join us and share your thoughts on these developments!
Date: *March 31, 2022*
Time: 15:00 UTC
Zoom: https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/82046580320
You may also watch Campaigns Office Hour: Introducing the Campaigns Product
Team <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jT8fRUWjfI> to learn more about the
Team and the previous wireframes.
Feel free to send us a message if you want to receive a reminder for this
meeting.
Thank you.
Best,
Imelda
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*Imelda Brazal*
Senior Content Campaign Fellow
Campaign Product Team, Wikimedia Foundation
ibrazal-ctr(a)wikimedia.org
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