Dear all,
I am excited to introduce the African Wikimedia Developers Project (AWMD)
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_Project>.[1]
AWMD is a project that focuses on recruiting volunteer African Developers
for the benefit of the WIkimedia Movement. This idea was inspired by a
conversation with Quim Gil at Wikimania Esino Lario in 2016, and was
followed through to Wiki Indaba <http://2017.wikiindaba.net/> where talks
was concluded on how to further put this to work.
The project's main goal is to increase the number of volunteer developers
who can solve related Wikimedia issues on the continent and in the movement
at large. We intend to equip prospective volunteers through trainings and
the creation of a community of developers. We will work closely with
affiliate groups (user groups, chapters and thematic organisations) and
other aligned developer groups (GDG, Linux user groups, mozilla groups,
etc.) to push this agenda.
To ensure scalability of the program we intend to start our first training
in Ghana where we are adequately equipped to closely monitor and create a
useful learning pattern that may be applied to future events. We intend to
have this event from the 23 - 24 June, 2017 and we’ll closely monitor for
about 2 months before planning the next place of training. The next phase
of the project will involve moving to different countries and trying to
emulate the success of the project there. We encourage you to visit and
endorse the grant proposal
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/OFWA/African_Wikimedia…>
of our first training in Ghana here.[2]
All interested in developing and/or wish to share ideas on projects are
invited to join the mailing list
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedia-developers>,
our social media outfit (facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/AfricanWikimediaDevelopers/> and twitter
<https://twitter.com/AfricanWikiDev>) or learn more via the MediaWiki page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_Project> of
the project.[3][4][5] We encourage all to share this within their
communities and to others who may be interested.
Stay tuned for more updates soon!
Cheers,
--
*Felix Nartey*
*Cofounder/Director Finance & Admin*
*Open Foundation West Africa <https://openfoundationwestafrica.org/>*
*+233242844987 <+233%2024%20284%204987> | +447440959477
<+44%207440%20959477>*
*Skype:Flixtey*
[1] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/African_Wikimedia_Developers_Project
[2] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/
OFWA/African_Wikimedia_Developers
[3] - https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-
wikimedia-developers
[4] - https://www.facebook.com/AfricanWikimediaDevelopers/
[5] - https://twitter.com/AfricanWikiDev
Hello guys
We would like to invite all WLAf 2016 team leaders to answer our Team
Survey.
This year, we decided to put it directly on meta (you will not get a google
form).
*LINK : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Team_survey
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Team_survey>*
Please provide a feedback at the very earliest convenience (strong emphasis
on "earliest")
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FOR ALL Africa community members
*P*lease directly head to the last question 3 below our team survey.* The
Theme for WLAf 2017*
*LINK
: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Team_survey#The_Them…
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Team_survey#The_Them…>*
Context: the committee approving the Projects Grant Requests is meeting
this week-end to make final decisions. You should know that Wiki Loves
Africa project is not yet approved for funding (crossing fingers) and that
our proposition for Wiki Loves Women funding has been rejected. The
committee did not consider it a worth-supporting project. Disappointing.
But fine.
Accordingly, we are boldly suggesting a theme that could be somehow tweaked
in such a manner that we could also address gender gap issues through Wiki
Loves Africa this year.
Our suggestion is to push for year 2017 the theme : PEOPLE AT WORK.
More context may be found here in a few pages, which I recommand you to
have a look:
* A really cool tool made by Envel after a conference I gave about Africa
and women, based on my suspicion that we mostly had biographies about porn
and sport women (lol) : http://tools.dicare.org/gaps/gender.php
* Explanation about the tool : https://www.lehir.net/a-tool-
to-estimate-gender-gap-on-wikidata-and-wikipedia/
* And category tree ... : https://commons.wikimedia.org/
wiki/Category:Women_at_work_by_occupation
Of course, if that theme, PEOPLE AT WORK, is chosen, we would not limit
ourselves for women. Men at work, women at work, transgendered at work,
children at work (unfortunately) etc. would be welcome.
What do you think ? Everyone feedback is welcome. This includes people who
did not participate to WLAf previous years. And this can include AfroCROWD
of course ;)
If there is enough support, there will not be a "call for themes and votes"
this year as we did last year. If we have a good enough support, we will
add the theme in the WLAf grant request asap.
Florence and Isla
Hi everyone!
I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
the Wikimedia Tool Developers Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group. The
group is international cooperative of developers who create freely-licensed
tools for improving the Wikimedia projects.
Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
Regards,
Kirill Lokshin
Chair, Affiliations Committee
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Tool_Developers_Group
FYI,
I am forwarding this here as I believe it would be useful for future
Wikimania applicant.
Regards,
Isaac (*who has never received a wikimanian scholarship or apply for one
this year)*
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Deryck Chan <deryckchan(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 24, 2017 at 5:59 AM
Subject: [Wikimania-l] Successful scholarship applications
To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <
wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
It's good that we're discussing the hurdle for someone to get their first
scholarship to participate in Wikimania. In addition to the suggestions in
the other thread, I'd like to lead an initiative to help future applicants
who want their first-ever Wikimania scholarship.
As a successful Wikimania 2017 scholarship applicant, I'm publishing
on-wiki all my answers to the scholarship application form, except personal
information:
https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Deryck_Chan/Sc
holarship_application
I encourage all other successful scholarship applicants to do the same. If
you kept a draft of your application form, redact any personally
identifiable information and publish it on wikimania2017wiki. This will
help future scholarship applicants get a feeling of what the reviewers are
looking for.
Deryck
Hello,
Please join me in welcoming Wikimedia's accepted candidates for Google
Summer of Code 2017 and Outreachy Round 14!
Google Summer of Code 2017
1.
Alexander Jones, Texas, United States, Implement Thanks support in
Pywikibot <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161426> - John Mark
Vandenberg
2.
Amrit Sreekumar, Kerela, India, Improvements to ProofreadPage Extension
and Wikisource <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161111> - Yann
Forget, Tpt
3.
Feroz Ahmad, New Delhi, India, Add a "hierarchy" type to the Cargo
extension <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161609> - Yaron Koren,
Nischayn22
4.
Harjot Singh Bhatia, New Delhi, India, Adding Data storage feature and
upgrading Quiz extension <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160257> -
Marielle Volz, Sam Reed
5.
Harsh Shah, India, Build a similar to @NYPLEmoji bot for Commons images
- Dereckson, Ariel
6.
Keerthana S, India, Automatic editing suggestions and feedbacks for
articles in Wiki Ed Dashboard <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160840>
- Sage Ross, Jonathan Morgan
7.
Sejal Khatri, India, Provide enhanced usability for Wikimedia Programs &
Events Dashboard managed by Wiki Education foundation <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161929> - Sage Ross, Jonathan Morgan
8.
Siddhartha Sarkar, India, Single Image Batch Upload <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161670> - Basvb
Outreachy Round 14
1.
Ela Opper, Tel Aviv, Israel, "Remind me of this article in X days"
MediaWiki notification <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161823> -
Matthew Flaschen and Moriel Schottlender
2.
Medha Bansal, New Delhi, India, WikiEduDashboard: Allow Programs &
Events Dashboard to make automatic edits on connected wikis <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161568>- Jonathan Morgan, Sage Ross
3.
Sonali Gupta, Rajasthan, India, Document process for creating new Zotero
translator and getting it live in production <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161191> - Marielle Volz
We would like to encourage accepted candidates to introduce themselves on
this thread, share with us where they are coming from and give a brief
overview of the project they will be working on.
We’re so proud of the contributions they have made so far to our community,
and we look forward to having a wonderful time working with them over the
summer! Also, a huge shout-out to the project mentors for their enthusiasm
and commitment!
Thank you to Sumit and Anna for coordinating this round along with me!
Best,
Srishti