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Re: [Wikimedia-GH] Internet for all Campaign
by rberchie 04 May '16

04 May '16

Well not at this stage but we hope to expand the discourse to include them in the nearest future. Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.-------- Original message --------From: Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com> Date: 01/05/2016 11:44 (GMT+00:00) To: Wikimedia Ghana User Group <wikimedia-gh(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-GH] Internet for all Campaign Thanks for sharing. Will any of reps from the telcoms in Ghana be there? And by reps I mean, either the country manager, or director, or west African regional manager of any of the telcos? On May 1, 2016 10:58, "Raphael Berchie" <rberchie(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hello all I am writing this email to invite you to be part of the fast internet celebrations in Africa and in Ghana.The Open Foundation West Africa will be hosting this event in Ghana to promote Fast and Affordable Internet in Ghana. FASTAfrica is Africa’s campaign to highlight the importance of Internet access and affordability to development and human rights. To support local groups working on Internet policy and to encourage regional collaboration, we are organizing an action week from May 1-7, 2016 with over 40 organisations participating across 30 countries. Later this year, WWW will travel to Kigali, Rwanda for The World Economic Forum on Africa (May 11-13) and the African Union Summit (June) to bring our demands to African leaders.The events in Ghana are as follows;2nd May 2016: Tamale Discourse HopIn Academy Waterworks Tamale. Time 9am -1pm 5th May 2016 Accra Internet Discourse Venue will be communicated in the course of the week 7th May 2016 Kumasi Affordable Internet Discourse.Venue Kumasi HiveTime 9am-1pm. Please help change the state of internet in Ghana by joining any of the events to make your contributions to changing polices to ensure internet affordability. You can also help this campaign by signing the online petition and questionnaire which will be shared on this platform subsequently. You can also join the conversation on twitter using the following hashtags;#FASTAfrica,#internet4allOthers#AfricanInternetRights | #WebWeWant | #WomensRightsOnline |#affordableinternet | #AF16 | #Transparency | #WEFAfrica | #Africa |#OpenDaa | #AU Regards Raphael BerchieMarketing Manager Farm Fresh Dairies Wikimedian,Open Advocate, Climate Change Activist,Blogger P.O Box CT 10469Cantoments AccraGhana _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-GH mailing list Wikimedia-GH(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-gh

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Internet for all Campaign
by Raphael Berchie 01 May '16

01 May '16

Hello all I am writing this email to invite you to be part of the fast internet celebrations in Africa and in Ghana.The Open Foundation West Africa will be hosting this event in Ghana to promote Fast and Affordable Internet in Ghana. FASTAfrica <https://webwewant.org/fast-africa/> is Africa’s campaign to highlight the importance of Internet access and affordability to development and human rights. To support local groups working on Internet policy and to encourage regional collaboration, we are organizing an action week from May 1-7, 2016 with over 40 organisations participating across 30 countries. Later this year, WWW will travel to Kigali, Rwanda for The World Economic Forum on Africa (May 11-13) and the African Union Summit (June) to bring our demands to African leaders. The events in Ghana are as follows; 2nd May 2016: Tamale Discourse HopIn Academy Waterworks Tamale. Time 9am -1pm 5th May 2016 Accra Internet Discourse Venue will be communicated in the course of the week *7*th May 2016 Kumasi Affordable Internet Discourse.Venue Kumasi Hive Time 9am-1pm. Please help change the state of internet in Ghana by joining any of the events to make your contributions to changing polices to ensure internet affordability. You can also help this campaign by signing the online petition and questionnaire which will be shared on this platform subsequently. *You can also join the conversation on twitter using the following hashtags;*#FASTAfrica <https://twitter.com/search?src=typd&q=%23FASTafrica>, #internet4all <https://twitter.com/hashtag/internet4all> Others#AfricanInternetRights <https://twitter.com/hashtag/AfricanInternetRights> | #WebWeWant <https://twitter.com/hashtag/webwewant> | #WomensRightsOnline <https://twitter.com/hashtag/WomensRightsOnline> |#affordableinternet <https://twitter.com/hashtag/affordableinternet> | #AF16 <https://twitter.com/hashtag/AF16> | #Transparency <https://twitter.com/hashtag/Transparency> | #WEFAfrica <https://twitter.com/hashtag/WEFAfrica> | #Africa <https://twitter.com/hashtag/Africa> |#OpenDaa <https://twitter.com/hashtag/OpenData> | #AU <https://twitter.com/hashtag/AU> *Regards* *Raphael Berchie* Marketing Manager Farm Fresh Dairies <http://www.bioplasticsghana.com> Wikimedian <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ghana>,Open Advocate, Climate Change Activist,Blogger <http://rberchie.blogspot.com/> P.O Box CT 10469 Cantoments Accra Ghana

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Hello
by elizabeth kosine 28 Apr '16

28 Apr '16

Please can i reply messages to the this email sender about wikimedia

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Fwd: [African Wikimedians] African World Heritage Day
by Nkansah Rexford 26 Apr '16

26 Apr '16

FYI Anyone up for the task? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *john cummings* <mrjohncummings(a)gmail.com> Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 Subject: [African Wikimedians] African World Heritage Day To: african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org Hi all I have met a few of you over Skype and in person before at Wikimedia events, I'm currently working at UNESCO. May 5th is African World Heritage Day and I was thinking about running a small online campaign for it. http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1364/ I have an idea and would like to know what you thought and how it could be improved upon. I would like to encourage editors in many languages to write Wikipedia and Wikivoyage articles about the World Heritage sites in Africa through social media and also on Wikipedia and Wikivoyage. I want to make this as multilingual as possible so I've used dynamic Wikidata Lists to create this table which shows which articles are available in which language. I think its a really nice way to create a project 'hit list' using Wikidata. https://tools.wmflabs.org/listeria/dynamic.html?#list=148 There are a few Wikidata items down the bottom of the list that are blank or with very few articles, I need to fix this, they're duplicate items so don't point to any articles or only one or two. Some questions I'm currently thinking about: - What languages should be included in the list? The languages I currently have are the 6 UN languages + a few other popular languages but this is easy to change. - What should be the aim of the campaign? E.g to create articles where they don't exist in smaller Wikipedias. - Should I include both Wikivoyage and Wikipedia or just stick to Wikipedia, or should I split into two tables? - Is the tool easy enough for experienced editors to use to find where articles don't exist yet? Its a shame they can't click on a button where the gap is to just write or translate the article. - Does anyone want to work with me on this? - Where and how should we encourage people to take part - Does this need a homepage or can it simply be a tweet that can be translated? This would allow it to be shared in many languages easily. All thoughts welcome Thanks John

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Re: [Wikimedia-GH] WMCON PARTICIPATION
by Nkansah Rexford 20 Apr '16

20 Apr '16

Awesome! Can't wait to hear the presentations and user groups discussions. Safe journey! On Apr 19, 2016 19:19, "Masssly" <masssly(a)ymail.com> wrote: Great! Do let us know what you learn from the community listening through surveys session. -Masssly On Tuesday, 19 April 2016, 18:18, Felix Nartey <flixtey(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hi Colleagues, I write to inform you that in about a few hours, I will be off for the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin. At the conference this year, I will be having a short presentation during the Community listening through surveys session. I have also been selected among an 8 member representation for usergroups to meet the interim ED on the current challenges of usergroups and to discuss the way forward. You thoughts or suggestions are warmly welcome. Thank you -- *Felix Nartey | DSE CAL Bank Ltd. | Co-manager GBG TEMA **| Community Manager WMGH | About me | +233 242 844987 **| **Check out!!* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-GH mailing list Wikimedia-GH(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-gh _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-GH mailing list Wikimedia-GH(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-gh

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WMCON PARTICIPATION
by Felix Nartey 19 Apr '16

19 Apr '16

Hi Colleagues, I write to inform you that in about a few hours, I will be off for the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin. At the conference this year, I will be having a short presentation during the Community listening through surveys <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2016/Program#17:_Liste…> session. I have also been selected among an 8 member representation for usergroups to meet the interim ED on the current challenges of usergroups and to discuss the way forward. You thoughts or suggestions are warmly welcome. Thank you -- *Felix Nartey | DSE CAL Bank Ltd. | Co-manager GBG TEMA <https://plus.google.com/u/0/106882654487622047846/posts> **| Community Manager WMGH <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ghana> | About me <http://about.me/felix.nartey> | +233 242 844987 **| **Check out!! <http://goo.gl/4oHJeQ>*

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Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Outage for planned maintenance: No editing for two 30-minute periods next week
by Nkansah Rexford 15 Apr '16

15 Apr '16

FYI. If you can't edit during the times specified below, then you know why ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sherry Snyder" <ssnyder(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Apr 15, 2016 18:33 Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Outage for planned maintenance: No editing for two 30-minute periods next week To: <WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, < wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, < ambassador-announce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Cc: This is a reminder about next week's major data center migration: There will be NO EDITING for about 30 minutes on both Tuesday, 19 April, beginning at 14:00 UTC <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20160419T14> and Thursday, 21 April, beginning at 14:00 UTC <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20160421T14>. This will affect ALL of the wikis in all languages and all projects. You will be able to read the wikis and to log in, but you will not be able to edit. Read https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Server_switch_2016 for more information. Please share this information with editors and other contributors you know. Thank you. -- Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sherry Snyder Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l

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Using Wikipedia to predict Ghana election results
by Mohammed Sadat 08 Apr '16

08 Apr '16

Hey folks, I did some analysis surrounding this years’ 2016 general elections using Wikipedia revision and pageview statistics and arrived at some interesting results. Although I think this is cool I’m a bit skeptical about making this sort of research public (knowing how people normally react) as it could create problems for our user group. Any thoughts or advice anybody might have for me? -Masssly

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Updates on community activities | Membership form
by Sandister Tei 06 Apr '16

06 Apr '16

Morning. This report <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a8cN_Wh011JpGrs4f6LGq92Sr3Cork8SOF0HvGz…> has three events, upcoming meetup, community reminders, possible Barcamps, and links to all our social media where you can find info. @Rex you can put the info on Meta for us please. @Rex also add your report for your event at Legon Also members who have still not filled the 2016 membership form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1GWonVJQ59GkIecg2n6EEBIm__I-PV8Q1Syd2kLiLeI…> should please do. Don't blame me if you are excluded from something happening.. *Regards, * *Sandister Tei * *www.sandistertei.com <http://www.sandistertei.com> / Wikipedia Editor Retention Program <http://erpgh.wmgh.org/>/ AJ+ Al Jazeera's new digital platform <http://ajplus.net/>*

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User:Wikicology ANI case
by Mohammed Sadat 04 Apr '16

04 Apr '16

There is an ongoing discussion at ANI concerning a Nigerian Wikimedian User:Wikicology. For those with no background, the case is about (but not limited to) the user 1. Faking their credentials 2. Copyright violations 3. And legal threat (which has now been retracted) I got a headache this weekend just poring over the details. I am mentioning this here because of its very embarrassing nature and how it doesn’t speak well (at all) for the future of our work in this part of the world. • ANI discussion • Arbitration request • Jimbo’s talk page -Masssly Sent from Mail for Windows 10

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