Wikimedia Ghana User Group August 2014

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[Wikimedia-GH] Volunteer At Chale Wote Street Art Festival 2014
by Enock Seth Nyamador 26 Aug '14

26 Aug '14

Hi Everyone, The Chale Wote Street Art Festival is back again this year on the 23rd and 24th of August. This year's edition seeks to explore the history of Accra, the city, through its origins in James Town and an examination of this place in relation to death and rebirth. The theme for this year's festival is 'Death: An Eternal Dream Into Limitless Rebirth. There will be art exhibitions that remodel our perceptions and interactions with design in public spaces, as well as other attractions. If you are interested in supporting the artists and manning work stations as a volunteer during the festival, kindly contact volunteer(a)ghanathink.org PS: Sandister started an article on Wikipedia [1] last year we can work on an edit-a-thon sometime or other collaborations with future editions plus getting more free images (CC-BY-SA) on Wikimedia Commons for worldwide usage. We can start a different trend on this. Also a publication by The Guardian about Chale Wote [2] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chale_Wote_Street_Art_Festival 2. http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/mar/05/accra-art-festival-streetscap… - Enock

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[Wikimedia-GH] Fwd: Medical translations - Ebola - South Africa & Ghana
by Nkansah Rexford 25 Aug '14

25 Aug '14

Interested in translating Ebola-related articles and other medical articles on Wikipedia into your local language, like Akan, Ewe, or Dagbani? Please get in touch with Carl below ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Carl Fredrik Sjöland <cfsjoland(a)icloud.com> Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:17 AM Subject: Re: Medical translations - Ebola - South Africa & Ghana To: Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com>, James Heilman < jmh649(a)gmail.com>, Ildiko Santana <ildikosantana(a)gmail.com>, Enrique Cavalitto <enrique(a)proz.com> Hi Rexford, I'm sorry for the late reply, I've been away and for some reason this mail didn't go out from my usual account. I'd be very grateful for any contacts interested in working on the project, and we are also looking for community organizers for specific languages. Also, we are looking into various Ghanan languages, if you know of anyone who may be willing to translate the Ebola article for example. As for regional banner, do you mean on specific Wikipedias? And who do I in this case turn to? Best, Carl Fredrik Sjöland On Aug 13, 2014, at 08:03 PM, Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hi Carl, Thanks for getting in touch and I'm glad the medical translation is in progress. The need to get those medical articles into Afrikaans and Xhosa is very important. I can help in trying to reach out to as many persons as possible who speak these languages. I, for myself, I am a Ghanaian by birth and can't speak nor understand nor write any of the South African languages except for English. However, I think I can be of assistance by putting up a call for persons to who can speak that language to help in the translation. One area I would suggest you exhaust is also putting a regional banner on Wikipedia inviting persons who speak that language to volunteer. I'll start right away in trying to reach out to many people as possible, and I hope I get persons who will be interested and be of assistance. Thanks rexford | google.com/+Nkansahrexford | sent from smartphone On Aug 12, 2014 11:51 AM, "Carl Fredrik Sjöland" <cfsjoland(a)icloud.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We spoke briefly at Wikimania, and I was delighted to hear that you may be > able to put us in touch with Xhosa and Lhasa speaking people. We spoke > about possibly reaching out to a number of medical students, and Victor was > even able to tell me that one of the girls who participated in the video > was studying medicine now. > If we could work on spreading the translations of Ebola as fast as > possible it could bring about an increase in the awareness of the project. > Currently we are translating into a large number of languages, but have > found no translators from any South African language. > > To see the full extent of our current translation work on Ebola please go > to: > en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:RTTS > and look for group 7 or 8, where most of the African languages we are > working on are grouped. If you are able to put us in contact with anyone > willing to help in a language not on this list currently, we are very open > to expanding it - even if this Wikipedia doesn't exist yet, we also have > content on the incubator. > > Best, > Carl Fredrik Sjöland > Wikiproject Medicine -- +Rexford <http://google.com/+Nkansahrexford> | Africa Center <http://africacenter.net> | WiR <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence> | WikiAfrica <http://wikiafrica.net> | User:Nkansahrexford <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nkansahrexford>

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[Wikimedia-GH] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] Call for Volunteers: Wikimania Jury to review bids for 2016
by Enock Seth Nyamador 24 Aug '14

24 Aug '14

FYI - Enock ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Manuel Schneider <manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch> Date: Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 3:13 PM Subject: [Wikimania-l] Call for Volunteers: Wikimania Jury to review bids for 2016 To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" < wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List < wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Dear all, soon we will starting the bidding process for Wikimania 2016. Soon the Wikimania Committee will be kicking off the selection process for deciding who should host Wikimania 2016. * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2016 Request for Proposals (RfP) is being published soon and we want to invite volunteers to serve on the selection jury. The jury will evaluate bids and make a recommendation to this committee and the WMF based on published criteria, reviewing the bids from November onwards until the final selection is made in December 2014. This is roughly 30-40 hours' work, and is key to us making Wikimania a strong, healthy community conference that we all can enjoy. The Wikimania Committee will select a jury that is a balanced representation of the community, from a diverse range of backgrounds, sexes, languages, cultures and regions of the world. What we are looking for: * seven members * geographical diversity * experience with events of this kind - either outside or inside the movement, as organiser or long-time Wikimaniac * members are required to read the Wikimania proposals on Meta Wiki * members are required to participate in six conference calls to discuss with each Wikimania proposal team and with the jury, approximate duration two hours, during the review phase (approx. one to two weeks around December) If you would like to serve on the jury, please e-mail Ellie Young (off-list) eyoung @ wikimedia.org August 24. We will announce the jury in two weeks' time. On behalf of the Wikimania Committee with regards, Manuel -- Manuel Schneider - Chief Information Officer Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Lausanne, +41 (21) 340 66 22 - www.wikimedia.ch _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l

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Re: [Wikimedia-GH] 'Who said Tweaa DCE'
by Amjad Abdullah 23 Aug '14

23 Aug '14

I've created the page 'Tweaa DCE'. This is a link to the page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweaa_DCE Please help make corrections if necessary.

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[Wikimedia-GH] Wiki Loves Earth Ending Soon ....
by Enock Seth Nyamador 23 Aug '14

23 Aug '14

Hello Everyone, Wiki Loves Earth Ghana 2014 will end on June 30. Myself and the WLE Ghana team will like to thank you for all that you've put into this, We will like to once again invite you to help us finish hard. So far 714 <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaign:wle-gh> photos have been uploaded. Thanks. - Enock

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[Wikimedia-GH] Attention!!
by Felix Nartey 22 Aug '14

22 Aug '14

Good Afternoon, Please if you are just joining us or have been here and don't have your name on the membership list <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiCvwpGu0gy9dGREdi1CNG5zVXBxUD…> please fill out this form <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiCvwpGu0gy9dGREdi1CNG5zVXBxUD…> with your necessary details or follow the link below to do so: http://goo.gl/oqyXo9 Regards, -- *Felix Nartey | DSE CAL Bank Ltd. | Co-manager GBG TEMA <https://plus.google.com/u/0/106882654487622047846/posts> **| Community Manager WMGH <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ghana> | About me <http://about.me/felix.nartey> | +233 242 844987 **| **Check out!! <http://goo.gl/4oHJeQ>*

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[Wikimedia-GH] Domain name to use.
by Nkansah Rexford 22 Aug '14

22 Aug '14

Hi all, I'm currently looking at going for a domain name this group can purchase and use it for any official communication plus use it for our websites in the near future. Currently, these two are the options I'm looking at, Wikimedia.org.gh Wikimedia.gh Which one do you recommend? Thanks rexford | google.com/+Nkansahrexford | sent from smartphone

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[Wikimedia-GH] Skywalker427 wants to join
by Hamzah Bawah 21 Aug '14

21 Aug '14

I would like join and help Planning Wikimedia Ghana create content for Ghana. I have my Wikipedia account, this is my username ... . Skywalker427 Include me in your mailing list so I can follow member and community updates, opportunities and get help on content creation and management.

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[Wikimedia-GH] Link has been fixed
by Sandister Tei 21 Aug '14

21 Aug '14

Link to Wikipedia help article on the notice page has been fixed. thanks E! Regards, Sandister Tei ----- Journalism @ JOMEC <http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/jomec/> // Owner Tei Ink <http://www.teiink.com/> // Co founder Wikimedia Ghana UG <http://planningwikimediaghana.blogspot.co.uk/> www.sandistertei.com | +447448223686 | teisd(a)cardiff.ac.uk | sandistertei(a)teiink.com

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[Wikimedia-GH] A message for new members
by Sandister Tei 20 Aug '14

20 Aug '14

Kindly visit this page <http://planningwikimediaghana.blogspot.co.uk/p/community-announcement.html> to catch up. Refer when you need to. Regards, Sandister Tei ----- Journalism @ JOMEC <http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/jomec/> // Owner Tei Ink <http://www.teiink.com/> // Co founder Wikimedia Ghana UG <http://planningwikimediaghana.blogspot.co.uk/> www.sandistertei.com | +447448223686 | teisd(a)cardiff.ac.uk | sandistertei(a)teiink.com

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