Wikimedia-GH February 2018

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Fwd: [African Wikimedians] Sub-Saharan Africa visit?
by Justice Okai-Allotey 27 Feb '18

27 Feb '18

Hello, I came across this in the African Wikimedians mailing list. This is something to think about. Best, Justice. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 7:15 PM Subject: [African Wikimedians] Sub-Saharan Africa visit? To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians < african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Some of you know me, but for those of you who don't, let me introduce myself briefly: I am a program officer at the Wikimedia Foundation, and work in the Community Resources (formerly called Grantmaking) team. While I handled grants in the past, I am now working on capacity-building activities with emerging communities, in a program called Community Capacity Development[1] (CCD, [[m:CCD]]), one aspect of which -- the Community Capacity Map[2] (CCM, [[m:CCM]]) -- you may have run across on the Wikimedia-l in the past few weeks. I write today to ask whether your community would be interested in discussing a possible visit to Sub-Saharan Africa by me, with several related goals in each country I'd visit, including: * a strategy/planning workshop with the group of active contributors. This would build on any existing plans or strategy you have, and also integrate thinking about the broad goals identified in the movement strategy project's phase 1 (presented at Wikimania in Montreal in August 2017.) * Meetings with important existing/prospective partners (if deemed helpful) * Public speaking (if deemed helpful) * capacity-building workshops for your community members, on topics such as (I'll need your help in determining which of these would be useful): ** Free licenses, non-free licenses, copyright, and OTRS (or: How to contribute to the Wikimedia Commons) ** Composing encyclopedic prose from a neutral point of view (NPOV) ** Negotiating notability and reliability requirements on Wikipedia ** Conflict management for Wikipedians ** Group facilitation skills ** Introduction to Wikidata ** Querying Wikidata with SPARQL ** Modern tools demonstration ** How to build a partnership ** etc. Some logistical details: *If I come, it would be after the Wikimedia Conference and before Wikimania, i.e. between late April and early July. * If I come, I would probably stay in Africa for between two and three weeks total, to have enough time for the above in several countries, and to accommodate your needs and availability. * I will have a budget for some domestic travel, to bring key volunteers together * No expenses are expected from your group's budget. Only your time and cooperation. Please take some time to discuss this idea and let me know if your community is sufficiently interested that we should discuss it further, over email or a video call. If you feel this would not be very helpful, or you really can't accommodate any additional activities before July this year, *please* don't feel obligated to respond. I am genuinely interested in helping, and there are other communities I could be supporting with this budget and time, so I won't be offended or upset, promise! :) I look forward to hearing from you. Asaf [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CCD [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CCM _______________________________________________ African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians -- Justice Okai-Allotey Mobile: +233 (054) 039 4970 Skype: okai_allotey |Avenger - Urithi Media Limited <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|

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Fwd: [African Wikimedians] Fwd: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Update on Wikimedia partnerships
by Justice Okai-Allotey 17 Feb '18

17 Feb '18

FYI Wikipedia Zero partnerships won't be continued anymore. Thanks. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Isaac Olatunde <reachout2isaac(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Feb 17, 2018, 8:25 AM Subject: [African Wikimedians] Fwd: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Update on Wikimedia partnerships To: Mailing list for African Wikimedians < african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <Nigeria(a)lists.wikimedia.org> FYI, Isaac ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Samantha Lien" <slien(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Feb 16, 2018 10:39 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Update on Wikimedia partnerships To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Sending in a re-formatted version: > > Hi everyone, > > As we consider the new strategic direction we identified from Wikimedia > 2030[1], the Foundation is evolving how we work with partners to address > barriers to participating in free knowledge around the world. > > After careful evaluation, we’ve decided to discontinue the Wikipedia Zero > program[2] as one of the partnership approaches we offer. Over the course > of this year, we won’t be taking on any new Wikipedia Zero partnerships, > and current partnerships will expire. > > The Wikipedia Zero program was first created to address one barrier to > participating in free knowledge globally: high mobile data costs. Through > the program, we partnered with mobile operators to waive mobile data fees > for their customers to freely access Wikipedia on mobile devices. In the > program’s six year tenure, we have partnered with 97 mobile carriers in 72 > countries to provide access to Wikipedia to more than 800 million people > free of mobile data charges. As stewards of Wikipedia Zero, I want to > congratulate and thank the Global Reach team for the success of this > program during its tenure, and for their leadership in continuing to > support new and meaningful partnerships aligned with our movement’s values > and vision. > > In the past couple of years, we identified a few developments that have > impacted Wikipedia Zero’s continued relevance. Beginning in 2016, we’ve > seen a significant drop off in adoption and interest in Wikipedia Zero, and > as a result, our reach today stands at a quarter of where it was at its > peak. During this time, we also conducted research[3] to better understand > the full scope of barriers to using Wikipedia around the world. For > example, awareness is one of the key issues we identified - even when > people have smartphones and use Facebook, Google, or WhatsApp, many of > those same people have never heard of Wikipedia. In addition, limited > local language content is another barrier we identified that inhibits the > discovery and use of our projects. > > We’ve had initial success with projects and partnerships[4] designed to > build awareness in parts of the world where Wikipedia is not widely known > or used. These successes have given us several ideas for where we may take > our partnership work next, and over the coming year, we will explore other > ways we can leverage the findings from our research and the Wikipedia Zero > program to direct future work with partners. > > We remain committed to creating impactful partnerships that align with our > own values and direction for the Wikimedia movement’s future. We look > forward to sharing more information and updates on our work with partners > in the coming year. > > Thank you, > Lisa > > We’ve also published a blog post about this announcement here: > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/02/16/partnerships-new-approach/ > > [1] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Direction > [2] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero > [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Reach/Insights and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers > [4] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/09/21/nigeria-wikipedia-awareness/ > > On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 1:11 PM, Lisa Gruwell <lgruwell(a)wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Lisa Gruwell <lgruwell(a)wikimedia.org> > > Date: Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 1:08 PM > > Subject: Update on Wikimedia partnerships > > To: "Staff (All)" <wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > > > > > > *Hi everyone,As we consider the new strategic direction we identified > from > > Wikimedia 2030[1], the Foundation is evolving how we work with partners > to > > address barriers to participating in free knowledge around the world. > After > > careful evaluation, we’ve decided to discontinue the Wikipedia Zero > > program[2] as one of the partnership approaches we offer. Over the course > > of this year, we won’t be taking on any new Wikipedia Zero partnerships, > > and current partnerships will expire. The Wikipedia Zero program was > first > > created to address one barrier to participating in free knowledge > globally: > > high mobile data costs. Through the program, we partnered with mobile > > operators to waive mobile data fees for their customers to freely access > > Wikipedia on mobile devices. In the program’s six year tenure, we have > > partnered with 97 mobile carriers in 72 countries to provide access to > > Wikipedia to more than 800 million people free of mobile data charges. As > > stewards of Wikipedia Zero, I want to congratulate and thank the Global > > Reach team for the success of this program during its tenure, and for > their > > leadership in continuing to support new and meaningful partnerships > aligned > > with our movement’s values and vision. In the past couple of years, we > > identified a few developments that have impacted Wikipedia Zero’s > continued > > relevance. Beginning in 2016, we’ve seen a significant drop off in > adoption > > and interest in Wikipedia Zero, and as a result, our reach today stands > at > > a quarter of where it was at its peak. During this time, we also > conducted > > research[3] to better understand the full scope of barriers to using > > Wikipedia around the world. For example, awareness is one of the key > issues > > we identified - even when people have smartphones and use Facebook, > Google, > > or WhatsApp, many of those same people have never heard of Wikipedia. In > > addition, limited local language content is another barrier we identified > > that inhibits the discovery and use of our projects. We’ve had initial > > success with projects and partnerships[4] designed to build awareness in > > parts of the world where Wikipedia is not widely known or used. These > > successes have given us several ideas for where we may take our > partnership > > work next, and over the coming year, we will explore other ways we can > > leverage the findings from our research and the Wikipedia Zero program to > > direct future work with partners. We remain committed to creating > impactful > > partnerships that align with our own values and direction for the > Wikimedia > > movement’s future. We look forward to sharing more information and > updates > > on our work with partners in the coming year. Thank you, LisaWe’ve also > > published a blog post about this announcement here: > > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/02/16/partnerships-new-approach/ > > <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/02/16/partnerships-new-approach/>[1] > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Direction > > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_ > > movement/2017/Direction>[2] > > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero > > <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero>[3] > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Reach/Insights > > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Reach/Insights> and > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers > > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers>[4] > > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/09/21/nigeria-wikipedia-awareness/ > > <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/09/21/nigeria-wikipedia-awareness/>* > > _______________________________________________ > > 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> > > > > > -- > *Samantha Lien* > Communications Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > 1Montgomery Street > Suite 1600 > San Francisco, CA 94104 > _______________________________________________ > 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> _______________________________________________ African-Wikimedians mailing list African-Wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians

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Postponement of the (WiR) Edit-a-thon program.
by Roy Sandy 16 Feb '18

16 Feb '18

I regret to inform the Group that I have to cancel our meeting scheduled at 12 pm on Saturday, 17th.February,2018 regarding the Parliamentary Constituencies in Ghana and how we can update the existing articles and create new ones that are not captured on Wikipedia. I have been notified by the management of Impact Hub-Accra, that tomorrow the 17th.February will not be appropriate for our meeting due to an ongoing maintenance works which cannot be postponed. I sincerely apologize for all the inconvenience, as well as for my short notice. I will notify the group when a new date is decided. Thank you. Wikimedian in Residence(WiR) Roy Sandy Tei

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Event registration
by Roy Sandy 14 Feb '18

14 Feb '18

As part of the Wikimedian in Residence Program, which focused on the Parliamentary Constituencies in Ghana, articles of constituencies have been identified which need immediate updates. New articles will be created on the new constituencies that were added before the 2012 general elections but are currently not featured on Wikipedia. You are invited to an Edit-a-thon to that effect.Please, experienced editors only. Kindly follow the link to register. https://goo.gl/forms/JvidLt006UjDZEY93

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Wikimania 2018 Call for Submissions
by Felix Nartey 05 Feb '18

05 Feb '18

*Dear Wikimedia community,On behalf of this year’s Wikimania programme committee,we are pleased to announce that Wikimania 2018, is now accepting proposals for workshops, discussions, presentations, or research posters to give during the conference. To read the full instructions visit the event wiki and click on the link provided there:https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions <https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions>Whether you are a community member of one of the Wikimedia projects, or a fellow open content creator or consumer, we welcome your proposal for a session. Please forward this information to others you think might be interested in presenting.Deadline for submissions is 23:59 UTC on Sunday March 18, 2018. This is approximately 6 weeks away.ThemeThis year, the conference will be taking place in Cape Town, South Africa, where the organisers are giving this Wikimania an unique flavor—an explicit theme based in African philosophy: “Bridging knowledge gaps, the ubuntu way forward.”Read more about this theme, why it was chosen, what it means for the conference program, at the Wikimedia blog <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/02/05/wikimania-cape-town-ubuntu/>.Throughout the conference program, this theme will be tightly held, but loosely defined - in order to encourage a diverse range of responses to the theme. It is our hope that this change will give us the opportunity to further our goal of creating the “sum of human knowledge”, by encouraging greater diversity and inclusion in who participates, and what we discuss, at Wikimania.To learn more, and to make a proposal for Wikimania Cape Town 2018, please visit:https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions <https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions>Sincerely, Program committee co-chairs Felix Nartey, Emna Mizouni, and Liam Wyatt.*-- *Felix Nartey* *Cofounder/Director Finance & Admin* *Open Foundation West Africa <https://openfoundationwestafrica.org/>* *+233242844987 | +447440959477* *Skype:Flixtey*

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