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From: "James Forrester" <jdforrester(a)gmail.com>
Date: May 1, 2013 5:11 PM
Subject: [Wikimania-l] Selection of winning bid for Wikimania 2014: London
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Dear Wikimedians,
On behalf of the Wikimania 2014 selection Jury, after review and
evaluation of the two final bids, we have awarded the conference to
London. Congratulations to the London team, and to the Arusha team who
also put forward a solid effort.
We were concerned this year to see that both bidding teams put forward
proposals which were costly and complicated, in contrast to the
Wikimania tradition. The Jury briefly considered re-opening the bid
for other teams, and asked both bids to present a simpler core budget
and lower-cost options for attendees.
The London team took our comments to heart and decreased their core
budget to 20% of their initial proposal, and have committed to finding
ways to reduce the cost for community attendees.
We encourage future bidding teams to not give up their dreams, to keep
aiming for the stars, but at the same time, to not forget the spirit
of Wikimedia: a volunteer movement that makes creative use of limited
resources. We look forward to the proposed Wikimania Committee setting
out clearer guidelines on these principles.
The process to bid for hosting Wikimania requires a substantial time
investment, and we thank both candidate teams for their submissions
and hard work.
Yours,
James Forrester
Moderator, Wikimania 2014 Jury
For the Wikimania 2014 Jury
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[[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal
capacity)
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Von: "Didie" <diddy.t(a)gmail.com>
Datum: 25.04.2013 10:32
Betreff: [Wikimedia-l] ITU Telecom Young Innovators Competition: looking
for solutions that inspire local content creation
An: <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
TU Telecom Young Innovators Competition has started a new challenge on
preserving diversity of digital content. We are calling for concept papers
or start-ups from all around the world, started by young women and men (age
18-26) who work to inspire the creation of local content in a less
frequently used on the Internet language. We recognize the dis-balance of
digital content available and are devoted to help diversify the content by
supporting talented young entrepreneurs who have projects in this field. We
accept concept papers or start-ups (already up and running and in need of
further help to scale up). We offer up to USD 10 000 of seed funding to the
best 10 submissions, and we really hope that some of them will be for our
challenge on digital content.
More information at our website<
http://world2013.itu.int/participate/innovate/>
http://world2013.itu.int/event/innovation/
Any questions, as well as applications, should go to
young.innovators(a)itu.int or email me directly at dimitrina.todorova(a)itu.int
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I was thinking wiki loves monuments this year can also be a success. I
checked the site where all the monuments for last hear were enlisted. I
found some not to have covered in the photo event. Perhaps we can hunt for
those photos this year.
We're pinning down all monuments in Ghana this year hopefully.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana%E2%80%99s_material_cultural_heritage
BarCamp Kasoahttps://www.facebook.com/events/547740338602830/
Regards,
Sandister Tei
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I have about 10 uploads via app
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From: rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner(a)gmail.com>
Date: 04/15/2013 12:16 PM (GMT+00:00)
To: wikimedia-gh(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikimedia-GH] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] 1000 Files uploaded (and kept!) by Android Commons App
For your interest
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Von: "Yuvi Panda" <yuvipanda(a)gmail.com>
Datum: 13.04.2013 00:55
Betreff: [WikimediaMobile] 1000 Files uploaded (and kept!) by Android Commons App
An: "mobile-l" <mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Uploaded_with_Mobile/Android
just crossed 1,000 uploads. The deletion percentage is still low
(~10%, and I think that is over-reported because of initial test
uploads).
Yay! Looking forward to more uploads :)
P.S. You can get the latest released app from the play store at:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikimedia.commons
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Hello community,
Wikimedia Outreach in Ghana
Tomorrow there will be a Wikipedia training and Dieu-Donné Gameli of University of Ghana is hosting us at the ICT center. He has done very well.
I am not certain about turnout but I am hoping we can get new members who will either edit, or serve the community in some way.
Follow work done so far and pending ones here.
Member activity
Enock Seth Nyamador is also amazing. So far he is closer to a 100 edits as a newbie. He has about 83 edits since January 2013 and most importantly he is working on the Ewe Wikipedia. I am recommending him for a position as an executive.
I think we should all be encouraged to support local language Wikipedia.
Dieu-Donné Gameli of University of Ghana is hosting us at the ICT center. He has been great support. Without him, that platform would have been non existent.
Ato Ulzen Appiah has hosted us all these months at Barcamps where active contributors like Enock were recruited.
Rexford Nkansah and me (Sandister Tei) have been having trainings before we were funded and post funding.
Nii Abbey hosted us at MiPROMO and has opened his doors for more trainings with free internet etc
Oral Ofori linked us to Nii and he paid to ship initial souvenirs which gave us presence in our initial campaigns.
What have you done for the community lately?
Active editing
Currently I (Sandister Tei) have 232 edits since I joined in August 2012 and Rexford has 729 since January 2012. There are others but I am pretty sure for PWMGH Rexford, Enock and me have pulled our weight. Even this is not enough because elsewhere people have 1000s.
Editing is the only way to secure our chaptership. A chapter means easier access to facilities and opportunities to lift the internet and time burdens we have so we can focus more on contributing. Editing is key. And editing is so easy and comes in various forms which you can all do if only you tried.
Elsewhere, people have hundreds of thousands of edits and we can all attempt that much. We are aiming at 20 top editors to secure our chapter. Those helping in other ways, don't stop but try and click that edit link and even check for common grammar.
We have 3 active contributors, (I stand to be corrected). We are looking for at least 17 more. I am throwing the challenge to all of us.
Sandister Tei has been selected to go to Hong Kong
I applied for the conference scholarship. I got it. I think I am the only one that applied. Next year, everyone should. It is just for 4 days and I believe you can leave work or school for just a few days for this important conference. But it starts with active editing and dedication to the community.
In other news
Our own Jimmy Wales is competing with Larry Page for the most influential in technology according to Time Magazine.Jimmy started Wikipedia as you all know and his project has pushed him to that height. Be encouraged. Wikipedia is a big deal. Commit to it and it will pay off.
I recently went for an interview and the most impressive achievement that I had was my work with PWMGH. It pushed me to the next level. So assess why you are in this community anyway and inspire yourself to contribute. We are not interested in titles, we are interested in doers.
Hopefully all should pay off soon.
Regards,
Sandister Tei
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Good morning,
Newbies
I would like to welcome all new trainees and encourage you to be active members of Planning Wikimedia Ghana AND active contributors to Wikipedia.
Please make sure you add your usernames to the meta page when you are conversant with the markup. You can also ask for help right away to do it.
Also follow our Facebook and Twitter updates plus the mailing list to stay informed and learn to get things done easily.
Please, I need to match usernames with real names and social media profiles so visit this google docs and add your details.https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvXrWu8qVT1qdEJHSlVESW…
Editing
Looking for a Wikipedia article to edit this week?Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasoa. Kasoa now has a lot of developments absent from this article.Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_City needs editing for language. I spent some time on it this weekend but we can do better
BarCamp Kasoa
We will be at BC Kasoa! It is happening on 27 April at ICGC TT as I have been told. Further details will be given.
Regards,
Sandister Tei
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