Hello guys,
I was at the Barcamp Koforidua this year. I was part of a breakout session
where Wikimedia world was discussed.
How many people joined the session? About 8.
How many people were recruited? None. Did I take anyone's contact? No. Did
anyone show enthusiasm to join? Not that I noticed.
Did Wikimedia/Wikipedia make sense to them? I think so. When one lecturer
at ANUniversity came to appreciate the structure of Wikimedia and Wikipedia
and why everything happens the way it does, everything I guess made more
sense to him.
At the educational level, how people see Wikipedia and it's related project
sites is very different and negative. If and should that be fixed, I'm sure
the effects will bubble down to many in schools.
Will those who joined the breakout session become editors? I don't know.
Will they get in touch to learn more? I don't know. Did they take something
useful about Wikimedia home? Yes, absolutely. I gave Wiki-related handouts
I received from Wikimedia UK to some in attendance.
A lecturer at Koforidua Poly plans to get in touch later in the course this
week to further discuss if they could do something Wikipedia Education
Program related. Will update this thread with more.
Pictures of the event:
https://twitter.com/hashtag/bckdua?f=images&vertical=default&src=hash
Are the pictures on Wikimedia Commons at the moment? Mine aren't, will
upload in the course of this week.
I hope to be at the Accra Barcamp as well, then with a combined power from
all the Wikimedia guys in Accra, we could push the Wikimedia word more.
Did I do a good job at Barcamp Koforidua 2016? I don't know.
rexford
Hello,
News just broke that 13 candidates have been disqualified from the
presidential race, leaving 4.
I have put the list on our election project page but we need to link them
to their Wikipedia articles or turn them into red links so we can create
pages for them.
Visit the page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Election_2016_Project/Editing_tas…>
to
help with the linking them to their Wikipedia pages.
Regards,
--
Sandister Tei
Video Journalist | Head of Social Media – Citi FM | Rep – Wikipedian
Community (Gh)
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FYI
- Enock
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From: Florence Devouard <anthere(a)anthere.org>
Date: Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 4:34 PM
Subject: [African Wikimedians] Africa Destubathon
To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians <
african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello gals and guys
In case you missed it, I wanted to inform you of the forthcoming Africa
Destubathon
What ?
The idea is simple: blast away as many of our 37,000 + Africa stubs as
possible! There will hopefully be a prize to the editor who fleshes out the
most stubs from every country of Africa.
All that is required for this is basic article expansions and improvements.
To "destub" an article all you have to do is ensure it's minimum 1.5 kb
(1500 characters) readable prose in total
The existing text and text you add is expected to all be verifiable and
adequately sourced to reliable sources, with the expected
Wikipedia:Citations drawn up. Whoever "destubs" the most articles for a
given country wins a prize, and whoever wins the most "destubs" for the
most countries will be crowned the overall winner.
Where ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Africa/
The_Africa_Destubathon
When
Starting Oct 15
Anything special ?
There will be special prizes for whoever destub the more African Women
articles
*We need your help NOW*
Advices (on the talk page) and endorsement (on the grant page) are welcome *(if
you feel like it is a good idea of course)*
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/The_Africa_De-stubathon
Anthere
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That is quite a lot! Interesting and partly related, I learnt that in
Israel heritage is rooted and therefore financed with tourism. At the
University as well it is called tourism but a main topic is heritage. I
wonder if asaf could comment a little bit more?
Rupert
On Oct 2, 2016 14:45, "Nkansah Rexford" <nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com> wrote:
In short, over 700 images were uploaded in this year's WLM 2016 in Ghana.
Kudos to Felix and team who led the event. It is great to see many images.
Not all of them might be strictly monumental, but they're great shots and
tell a story relating to the monuments we have here in Ghana.
See the images: https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikiloves/images?event=
monuments&year=2016&country=Ghana
Big thanks to all who took part in this year's event! From 100 in the first
event to 700+ this year is a milestone!
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Mawuli Cherubim is working hard to meet a 100 edit target he's set for
himself. He's updated the elections project page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Election_2016_Project/Editing_tas…>
with political parties participating in the elections.
Well done Mawuli!
Have something to contribute? Add yours.
*Read the tips below:*
The updated Wikipedia Election 2016 Project <http://bit.ly/2ddVX2f> is
available to all to use the opportunity to learn to edit/edit.
*Some simple tasks*
This week you are invited to help list all political parties being
represented in the elections.
Step 1 – Visit the listing page <http://bit.ly/2cXdVV8> and add a party by
clicking the* edit *link
Step 2 – If the party you are adding has a Wikipedia page, input it by
typing
*[[Wikipedia: "Party's name on Wikipedia" | "Party's name as you want it to
appear"]]
If it doesn't have one use the same format, it'll show as a red link, which
is a good indicator that the party may need a Wikipedia page so we create
one.
Step 3 – Save your edits. That's all! Easy.
If you are having trouble please ask for help here or on our Whatsapp group
page. If you'd like to add ideas or tips, please do.
Regards,
--
Sandister Tei
Video Journalist | Head of Social Media – Citi FM | Rep – Wikipedian
Community (Gh)
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Community (Gh) <http://www.wmgh.org/> | Purple People
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