Wikimedia-GH November 2018

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by Justice Okai-Allotey

Hello, Our grant for participation in re:publica Accra is ready. Here is the link if you have the time please endorse it. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Wikimedia_Ghana_User_G… Thanks Best, Justice.

3 years, 8 months

Fwd: [Commons-l] FW: [Wikimedia-l] +28K images freed from Israel archives and uploaded to commons

by Nkansah Rexford

Impressive! FYI ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Steinsplitter Wiki via Commons-l <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Date: Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 1:50 PM Subject: [Commons-l] FW: [Wikimedia-l] +28K images freed from Israel archives and uploaded to commons To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> ______________________________________ FORWARDED MAIL START FROM: Wikimedia-l <wikimedia-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org> via matanya(a)foss.co.il <matanya(a)foss.co.il> TO: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org TOPIC: [Wikimedia-l] +28K images freed from Israel archives and uploaded to commons Hello, It is a great pleasure for me to let you all know that wikimedia Israel had developed a web scraper that crawled in various archives in Israel and uploaded more than 28K free images to commons. The tool (https://github.com/wmil-1946/wikiscraper) was developed to crawl the web site (list below) and clean them, remove water marks, etc. Only images taken before 1946 were uploaded, as per the law in Israel and United states. Many volunteers had joined the effort by categorizing, linking and using the images once uploaded. It even got coverage on Israeli media (here ( https://www.calcalist.co.il/internet/articles/0,7340,L-3749654,00.html)) Commons categories containing the files: [1 ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_JNF_uploaded_by_Wiki…) 2 ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_ISA_uploaded_by_Wiki…) 3 ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_Moshe_Sharett_Archiv…) 4 ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_Palmah_Archive_uploa…) 5 ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_GPO_uploaded_by_Wiki… )] Thanks to all the people involved in this gigantic effort and enjoy using historical images from the holy land! :) Matanya _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, < mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe <wikimedia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>> _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

3 years, 9 months

Minutes from Saturday Annual Meeting

by Justice Okai-Allotey

Hello, Our Annual Meeting was on Saturday and the few who came where able to share some of their problems and ways they would want to deal with it. We also have a google document file open[1] with 4 questions which we would want members who didn't come to the meeting to answer. Please note this google drive is opened for a limited period only so the earlier you submit your response the better for proper planning for the coming year. Also, the by-laws committee have finished drafting our by-laws which is now uploaded unto our meta page[2]. If you have any comments please let us know on the discussion page of the same meta page. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us. Thank you Best, Justice. [1] http://bit.ly/wmghmeeting [2] http://bit.ly/wmghbylaws -- Justice Okai-Allotey Mobile: +233 (054) 039 4970 Skype: okai_allotey |Avenger - Urithi Labs <https://www.facebook.com/urithimedia/>| |Social Media Lead - Wikimedia Ghana User Group <https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaGhanaUG/>| |Linkedin: Justice Okai-Allotey <https://www.linkedin.com/in/justice-okai-allotey-306b6354?trk=hp-identity-n…> | Facebook: Justice Okai-Allotey <https://www.facebook.com/wyzzlewany> | Twitter: @Owula_Kpakpo <https://twitter.com/Owula_Kpakpo> | |Website: wyzzlewany.wordpress.com|

3 years, 9 months

Annual Meeting

by Justice Okai-Allotey

Hello, Quick reminder; Our Annual meeting which is going to help us plan for the coming year. Date: 10th November, 2018. Time: 9am - 1:00pm Venue: Impact Hub Accra, Osu-Ako-Adjei. Register to attend the meeting with this link; http://bit.ly/wmghAGM. Thank You. -- Justice Okai-Allotey Mobile: +233 (054) 039 4970 Skype: okai_allotey |Avenger - Urithi Labs <https://www.facebook.com/urithimedia/>| |Social Media Lead - Wikimedia Ghana User Group <https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaGhanaUG/>| |Linkedin: Justice Okai-Allotey <https://www.linkedin.com/in/justice-okai-allotey-306b6354?trk=hp-identity-n…> | Facebook: Justice Okai-Allotey <https://www.facebook.com/wyzzlewany> | Twitter: @Owula_Kpakpo <https://twitter.com/Owula_Kpakpo> | |Website: wyzzlewany.wordpress.com|

3 years, 9 months

Re: [Wikimedia-GH] Growth Team Newsletter

by Justice Okai-Allotey

Hello, FYI. Welcome to the third newsletter for the new Growth team <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth>! The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New%20Editor%20Experiences/Midsize%20Wikiped…> Wikimedia projects. *Two Growth team projects to be deployed in next two weeks* We will be deploying the "Understanding first day" and "Personalized first day" projects on Czech and Korean Wikipedias in the coming weeks. See the new project pages below for full details on the projects, and our project updates page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Growth%20team%20updates> for their progress. - Understanding first day <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Understanding%20first%20day>: learn about the actions new editors take right after creating their accounts. We will be careful with user privacy, and we hope to share initial results in December. - Personalized first day <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Personalized%20first%20day>: learn about new editors' objectives by adding some optional questions to the new editor’s registration process, and personalizing their onboarding. We hope to share initial results in December. *Third Growth team project begins* - Focus on help desk <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Focus%20on%20help%20desk>: direct newcomers to the local help desks where they can ask questions to help them make their first edits. We hope to have an initial experiment running in December. *Best practices for helping newcomers* We are going to direct newcomers to help desks. But what's the best way to reply to a newcomer there? We have gathered some best practices <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Communities/How%20to%20work%20with%20…> for successful interactions, based on community experiences and some external documentation. The page has also been reviewed by some experienced community members who suggested some changes. That page is now open for translations <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Gr…>. Comments and suggestions are still welcome <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Growth/Community/How%20to%20work%20with…> ! *We are still looking for volunteers* Do you want to participate to our experiments? We are looking for new communities to work with us (especially a new mid-size <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New%20Editor%20Experiences/Midsize%20Wikiped…> wiki), and people to become ambassadors to help us to communicate with the different communities. Discover how you can involve yourself or your community <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Communities>. Also, please share this update with your community and interested people! *Learn more about us* You can visit our team page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth> to find out why our team was formed and how we are thinking about new editors, and our project page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Growth%20team%20updates> for detailed updates on the projects we'll work on. *Growth team's newsletter <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Newsletters> prepared by the Growth team <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MediaWiki%20message%20delivery>, 13:29, 7 November 2018 (UTC) • Give feedback <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Growth/Newsletters> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global%20message%20delivery/Targets/Growth%…>.*

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