Hello everyone, here are some
activities this year
by the Wikimedia Ghana User Group.
*(Please whichever you are interested in joining, or if you want to suggest
something, send an email to team(a)wmgh.org <team(a)wmgh.org>)*
*Wikipedia Education Program
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ghana_User_Group_/_Wikipedia_Educ…>*
* (WEP) – All Year*
Justice Allotey will be leading
the
program at the Gimpa
L
aw
School.
Sandister Tei will
also be running
the
program at the French School.
A student of GIJ wrote to us
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-gh/2016-June/003011.html>
last year in June. We are still following up on that to see if this year
he can do so.
*Wikipedia Library *
* – All Year*
The WEP at Gimpa is for law students. We know writing about law is going to
go way beyond the light news articles we use commonly as reference.
We plan on incorporating the Library hence we are making arrangements on
how best the two can work together.
Whoever wants to join our library intervention can also get in touch.
*Wikipedia 16*
* *
*get–together – February*
Please visit this page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Wikimedia_Ghana_User_G…>
and secure your cho.
*Art+Feminism*
* *
*– March*
PLEASE GET IN TOUCH IF YOU WANT TO ORGANISE IN YOUR REGIONS OR CITY
List your intention under the events outside Accra section
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ghana_User_Group_/_2017_Art%2BFem…>
.
*#WikiHuddle** series – All Year (Monthly)*
We had our first Huddle event around
Asaf Bartov
for wikidata.
There’s a member of Wikimedia Ar in town who I want us to huddle around.
You
c
an
s
uggest what you want him to teach us.
Anyone interested in helping the events person organize the huddle events
can reach out.
Please we need to always be three months ahead inter
m
s of grants to support the
events so express your interest early
.
*Barcamp Wikipedia
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ghana_User_Group_/_2017_Events_%2…>
– February*
PLEASE GET IN TOUCH IF YOU WANT
TO ORGANISE IN YOUR REGIONS OR CITY
There will be one in Kumasi,
Tamale
and Accra.
*Wikipedia+Politics Project *
Soon the grant period for the election project will end. However we all
know the articles on politics in Ghana still need help.
Are you interested in politics? Hop on.
Add your name in the section.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ghana_User_Group_/_2017_Events_%2…>
*Wiki Loves Monuments & Wiki Loves Earth*
These have been staples over the years. We look forward to getting
involved.
*Membership/leadership/volunte**e**ring etc*
On leadership please apply into mailing list if you want to take up a
position for the group to vote you in for the 2017 activities year. Here
are the list of positions
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-gh/2016-July/003033.html>.
Please read well.
Whatever new thing you like to volunteer for, please also make it known.
On membership please put your names here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ghana_User_Group_/_Members>.
Also indicate the region that you are in so we can see to including you in
our activities and catering for the distance needs
.
*This year people will be getting membership cards. It is not necessarily
for personal identification but to enable you get goodies and freebies via
some sweet partnerships we are trying to build.*
*Akan Wikipedia and other projects*
Akan and other local language Wikipedia is one of the things the user group
offered to achieve when we first applied for chaptership
in 2012
. There are many more we promised as well
by the time we upgraded in 2014
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Ghana_User_Group&old…>
. We didn’t have the numbers and the experience to pull them all off. Now
we do.
*Meetings*
People are proposing meetings here and there. Let's find time to make them
happen.
For more on our activities please visit here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ghana_User_Group_/_2017_Events_%2…>
from time to time.
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Samuel Guebo <samuelguebo(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: [African Wikimedians] Positions open for strategy coordinator
contractors.
To: Florence Devouard <fdevouard(a)anthere.org>, Mailing list for African
Wikimedians <african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Thanks for sharing Florence.
On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 8:05 PM, Florence Devouard <fdevouard(a)anthere.org>
wrote:
> FYI
>
> Le 30/01/2017 à 20:01, Maggie Dennis a écrit :
>
>> Hello, all. :)
>>
>> As you know, we are launching a movement strategy process and want people
>> from the community integrally involved at every stage. We are accordingly
>> seeking active Wikimedians interested in applying for a number of
>> Community
>> Strategy Coordinator positions. The people hired for these positions will
>> be part-time, remote contractors of up to 20 hours a week with a contract
>> of 3 months. Start date should be in early March.
>>
>> You can see the job descriptions and apply for the positions at <
>> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Work_with_us>, but here’s a quick
>> summary of who we’re looking for and what they’ll be doing:
>>
>> *Language Specialist Strategy Coordinators*
>>
>> These will be bilingual speakers of a specific list of non-English
>> languages[1] and English who are experienced in their language project
>> community or communities. They will be expected to be able to both conduct
>> deep outreach to these non-English communities and to liaise between these
>> communities and others, in order to maximize the ability of their
>> communities to participate in the movement strategy process. They will
>> also
>> need to be capable of monitoring and summarizing discussions about
>> strategy
>> topics and will be expected to produce a summary report at the end of
>> their
>> contract.
>>
>> *Metawiki Strategy Coordinators*
>>
>> These facilitators need not be multilingual (although it is a plus), but
>> must be fluent in English and must be experienced contributors to one or
>> more Wikimedia communities. They will be working alongside the language
>> specialist coordinators, the global community, the Wikimedia Foundation
>> and
>> the strategy team to facilitate the most inclusive strategy process
>> possible. This will include outreach to global communities, offering their
>> own community experience and advice to those involved in the process, and
>> leading, monitoring, and summarizing strategy-related discussions. They
>> will be expected to produce a summary report at the end of their contract.
>>
>> If you think either of these sounds like you or another community member
>> you know, I encourage you to visit the job application page and review the
>> job descriptions for more details (again, that's at <
>> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Work_with_us#Wikimedia_Careers>).
>> Please tell us about your experiences as a Wikimedian and why you think
>> you
>> would be a good fit for this role. Our goal is to run the most inclusive
>> strategy process we can, and that means we need experienced community
>> members like you to help!
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Maggie
>>
>>
>> [1]
>>
>> - Arabic
>> - Bengali
>> - Chinese
>> - Dutch
>> - French
>> - German
>> - Hebrew
>> - Hindi
>> - Italian
>> - Japanese
>> - Malayam
>> - Polish
>> - Portuguese
>> - Russian
>> - Spanish
>> - Swedish
>> - Vietnamese
>>
>>
>
> --
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> http://www.devouard.com
>
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yes, samuel, add more and move back. just compare belinda kanda:
* on wp:en:drafts, wrong and unsourced
* on wp:de : https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belinda_Kanda , properly
sourced, at least some useful info
same for shaila okai:
* wp:de, properly sourced: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Okai
i agree that the draft move and breaking the link to the german wikipedia
is not really helping the case here. a tag "translate from german" would
have been the better option. maybe we could dump this on the bot authors to
improve?
(including wikimedia-gh as we talk about ghana football players)
rupert
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 10:22 PM, Samuel Guebo <samuelguebo(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello @Florence,
>
> I took a look a the links and opened randomly several of them among which:
>
> - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Sheila_Okai
> - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Flore_Enyegue
> - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Basilea_Amoa-Tetteh
>
> In my humble opinion, I do not see any substantive reason to delete them.
> Of course they are merely stubs, but stubs with a least one reference. What
> do you suggest? Adding additional references and moving them back to the
> main space?
>
> I am afraid the bot will do the same bulk deletion.
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 5:17 PM, Florence Devouard <anthere(a)anthere.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello there
>>
>> So....I just checked the recent activity on the Wiki Loves Women
>> assessment board.
>>
>> And my attention was raised by a serious list of red links (which used to
>> be blue... right ?)
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wiki_Lov
>> es_Women/Assessment
>>
>>
>> It appears that all those articles were bot-moved from article status to
>> "draft" status. They were all created by User:Sander.v.Ginkel (for a grand
>> total of 16,104 articles) due to various quality issues.
>> All articles created were moved to draft space, where they can rescued
>> one by one (being fixed first).
>>
>> Upon quick checking... roughly 300 african women articles were concerned
>> by the purge. It appears that many of them are about footballers (I opened
>> 10 articles and the 10 were of that sort), a lot being Ghanean
>>
>> Quick sampling
>>
>> * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Belinda_Kanda (Ghanean football
>> player)
>> * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Maureen_Eke (Nigerian football
>> player)
>> * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Aminatu_Ibrahim (Ghanean football
>> player)
>>
>>
>> It is possible to volunteer to rescue those articles (fix them, then move
>> them back in the main space).
>>
>> Join the rescue team here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
>> User:Aymatth2/SvG_clean-up/Guidelines
>>
>>
>> Main role required... sourcing... in particular to prove notability.
>>
>>
>> Please help :)
>>
>>
>> Florence
>>
>>
*Details: A meeting with Asaf Bartov – Senior Program Officer, Emerging
Wikimedia Communities, Wikimedia Foundation*
Date: Monday 23 January 2017
Venue: Impact Hub – Osu
Time: 5pm
*For those looking to learn Wikidata please bring along your laptops*.
Regards,
--
Sandister Tei
Video Journalist | Head of Social Media – Citi FM | Rep – Wikipedian
Community (Gh)
*Letters to Marissa <https://medium.com/letters-to-marissa> | Wikipedian
Community (Gh) <http://www.wmgh.org/> | Purple People
<https://www.facebook.com/thatpurplelife/>*
Hello all,
Asaf Bartov is the Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities,
Wikimedia Foundation is in town for WikiIndaba. For a long time I have gone
to him with questions about our operations and he has been really useful.
He contributes to our mailing list too.
He may be available for a meet up and I was planning on having those who
haven’t met him yet to meet him and ask as many questions as possible – he
knows his stuff.
The meeting will likely be on Monday at 5pm. You are invited.
I also wanted him to give a quick training on Wikidata
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page> because that’s one WMF
wiki that you don’t want us to miss out on if you haven’t started already.
If you are interested in meeting Asaf, whether to socialize or learn
Wikidata RSVP here <https://goo.gl/forms/ZQEj2K87DwI1xS482>.
Regards,
--
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Video Journalist | Head of Social Media – Citi FM | Rep – Wikipedian
Community (Gh)
*Letters to Marissa <https://medium.com/letters-to-marissa> | Wikipedian
Community (Gh) <http://www.wmgh.org/> | Purple People
<https://www.facebook.com/thatpurplelife/>*
Hello all.
Sunday January 15, 2017 is Wikipedia day
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Day#Wikipedia_Day_2017>
– the wiki's 16th birthday!
Last year we had a party. This year we can try something different. Any
ideas? You can share with the community.
Please try and nominate people for the awards. See forwarded email below.
Regards,
--
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Video Journalist | Head of Social Media – Citi FM | Rep – Wikipedian
Community (Gh)
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Community (Gh) <http://www.wmgh.org/> | Purple People
<https://www.facebook.com/thatpurplelife/>*
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sandister Tei <sandistertei(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 5:13 PM
Subject: Happy new year / important updates
To: Planning Wikimedia Ghana Chapter <wikimedia-gh(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
*2016 end of year awards for outstanding members*
Please check this page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ghana_User_Group_/_2016_Events_%2…>
and leave your nominations there. See the *End of the year award* section.
*– What do you want the user group to focus on in 2017?*
For example in 2016 the focus was on Wikipedia. You can also use this
opportunity to capture your needs as a member by requesting the group to
focus on things that'll meet your needs.
Share them here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfvEthEYMzWerecMxMHAS_4cFavM3GFY8i…>
.
*– Confirm your 2017 membership*
It's usually a practice to have a public list of user group members. Since
2012, people have joined the group but we have never heard of them during
events, elections etc.
Please put your name on the 2017 list here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ghana_User_Group#Members_.E2.80.9…>
if you still are with us and wish to declare it. Just add your username is
ok (privacy issues). In case anyone especially from the global community
(or anyone) wants to contact you (in the capacity of a Wikimedia Ghana User
Group member), they can easily find your user talk page via this list.
Regards,
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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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Thinking something Wiki Loves Poticians or Politics? Photo contest to get
pictures of politicians.
Just thinking aloud.
What do you say?
Best,
- Enock
2017-01-16 17:28 GMT+00:00 Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com>:
> As we think of the interchange, I hope we keep Ghana's First Lady in mind
> too.
>
> There's no picture of Rebecca attached to her article at the moment.
>
> On Monday, January 16, 2017, Sandister Tei <sandistertei(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Remind me to ask my colleagues at work if they want to donate. someone
>> has a drone footage even.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sandister Tei
>>
>> Via mobile
>>
>> On 16 Jan 2017 4:28 p.m., "Enock Seth Nyamador" <kwadzo459(a)gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Anyone got pictures of Kwame Nkrumah Interchange[1] as of December 2016?
>>> Kindly upload to commons.wikimedia.org
>>>
>>> Use category [2].
>>>
>>> Or if you're near why not take a shot? :)
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Nkrumah_Interchange
>>> 2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kwame_Nkrumah_Ci
>>> rcle_Road_(Accra)
>>>
>>> - Enock
>>>
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>
Hello all, we received an additional invite to Berlin after the first one
came (see forwarded email). It is geared towards a strategic session meant
for people leading affairs in the user group.
The plan was to let the two people who bothered to volunteer to go. However
the second person still doesn't meet this criteria.
Justice is one community leader who showed interested however he got the
general slot. Georgina your elected leader didn't express interest. Rexford
also said no.
A reminder came from Jaime again today that we need to send someone. I have
sent my name.
Please moving forward, let's take keen interest in standing for elections
and volunteering for the community, so when these opportunities come, we
are spoilt for choice.
In the past years, Felix has represented us twice as community manager. If
Justice and I go, next year new faces may need to go if they meet the
criteria.
Regards,
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Community (Gh)
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Community (Gh) <http://www.wmgh.org/> | Purple People
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jaime Anstee <janstee(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 10:06 PM
Subject: Additional Invitation to Wikimedia Conference 2017 in Berlin
To: nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com, sandistertei(a)gmail.com
Dear Wikimedia Community User Group Ghana,
In preparation for a movement strategy conversation in Berlin, we would
like to extend one more invitation for a second representative to attend
the Wikimedia Conference this March. This is in addition to the one
representative that is already invited to attend the conference on behalf
of your affiliate. This year’s conference has been built with 3 tracks;
extending one additional invite will allow your group to designate one
person for strategy and one for the customary learning tracks.
- 1 person - Strategy track
- 1 person - Capacity Building & Partnerships learning tracks
During the Strategy track, we will be discussing the future of the movement
and the best ways to fulfil our vision: that every single human being can
freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Importantly, the person you
designate for the Strategy track should have demonstrated leadership and/or
domain expertise important to your group’s efforts.
You should prioritize someone who...
- will represent your community and share back home what they learn
- has implemented one or more different types of programmatic or
engagement leadership in the last 12 months in your community
- has engaged in learning and/or evaluation practices in order to learn
and share about your group’s strategic activities and program work
- is working to develop and/or lead strategic efforts in your community
(e.g., communications, volunteer engagement, skills development for
community engagement, community health, program design and evaluation).
If you have already registered a representative to join the main conference
in Berlin and that person is your preferred representative for the Strategy
track, no problem. You may choose a second person to attend one of the
other conference tracks while your original representative attends
Strategy.
To designate your representatives to the Strategy and a non-strategy track,
reply to this message and share the names of
1. the person you wish to represent your group in the Strategy track
2. the person you wish to participate in Capacity Building &
Partnerships learning tracks
Please respond to this message to let us know about your additional
representative’s name and email address as well as the track designation
for your representatives as soon as you are able. There will be a new
registration period for the additional person to register, which will be
open January 9 through January 30, 2017. We will keep track of your
decision and share the invitation to register to the additional affiliate
representative.
Please take the time to consult with each other to determine who is best to
represent your group. Once we hear back, we will proceed with messaging to
share a registration link for your additional representative so that they
may register before the deadline.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
Jaime
*Important Dates: *
Additional Representative Registration: January 9 - 30, 2017
Conference Dates: March 31–April 2, 2017
*Relevant links:*
Conference page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017
<https://wikimedia-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1AFKAs8VBhdazIEz…>
Strategy page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_
movement/2017
<https://wikimedia-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1AFKAs8VBhdazIEz…>
*Did you know*: *Affiliations Committee Call for Candidates is open through
December 31st!* *Do you have experience with leading a user group or
supporting affiliate programs and have time to contribute to the committee?
Learn how to submit your candidacy on meta at: *https://meta.wikimedia.org/
wiki/Affiliations_Committee/MassMessages/Call_for_candidates_-_December_2016
<https://wikimedia-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1AFKAs8VBhdazIEz…>
--
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Senior Strategist, Manager, & Affiliations Committee Liaison
Learning & Evaluation
Wikimedia Foundation
+1.415.839.6885 ext 6869
www.wikimediafoundation.org
<https://wikimedia-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1AFKAs8VBhdazIEz…>
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
*https://donate.wikimedia.org
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