I personally don't see anything wrong with the invitation. He just sent an invitation to the community. I don't see it an agenda to promote his event. Removing him from the list will be an unfair judgement.
On Aug 19, 2015 8:30 AM, Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Quarshie Timothy posted a similar message (via eventbrite) in about 2 months ago
>
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-gh/2015-June/002712.html
>
> It'll be best caution begins with action now.
>
> On Wednesday, August 19, 2015, Felix Nartey <flixtey(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Rexford i don't think we should rush in removing anyone from the list now. I believe we have all learnt from Michael's mistake and w'll hope it doesn't happen again.
>>
>> So the caution i presume will take place in the future.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Asaf: These are making it through because senders are part of the list. These are not messages from non-list-members.
>>>
>>> All: Any kind of these type of promotional messages comes through the list, the user will be deleted without any further discussion, beginning with Michael Mettle-Nunoo.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, August 19, 2015, Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> List admins: why are these things making it onto the list?
>>>>
>>>> A.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Michael Mettle-Nunoo <niimichaelk(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> The Official Launch of Mazzuma
>>>>> View this email in your browser
>>>>> <table style="border-collapse:collapse" width="1</blockquote></div>
Wow, 1 million! Awesome. Congrats Fae.
- Enock
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Congratulations Fae on a million uploads
Here's to the next million
Joe
On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 11:50 Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> A Wikimedia blog post highlighting and celebrating some of my batch
> upload projects over the last 3 years has been posted at
> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/08/10/sharing-a-million-photographs.
> For Commons to work it's always a collegiate effort. and I know many
> long term UK based volunteers have helped with categorizing and
> reusing these projects. Thanks everyone!
>
> Please retweet! It's nice to have a good news story about Wikimedia
> Commons doing the rounds.
> https://twitter.com/Faewik/status/630676649042964480
>
> P.S. there's a minor amendment requested with the blog team. The
> original wording is at
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Drafts/Sharing_a_million_pho…
> .
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As some of you might know, one of the things the Wikipedia Zero team has
learned is that WMF and the broader movement needs more specific data about
Wikipedia’s usage in Africa. We have decided to conduct a survey in Ghana
as our first pilot. Our survey is a phone-based one, and will offer a
choice of using one of the most commonly used languages in Ghana (Twi,
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more about the awareness of Wikipedia and Wikipedia Zero, the use of
internet-capable phones, and receive general feedback about Wikipedia
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Our survey will be done by VotoMobile <https://www.votomobile.org/>, a
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The data will be publicly available once the survey is completed.
I would like to introduce to take this opportunity to broadly introduce Dan
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Hi,
This might be of interest to those of us planning to attend future
Wikimanias.
PS: Sorry if it's not related.
Best,
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From: Mina Theofilatou <theoth(a)otenet.gr>
Date: Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 7:38 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania Scholarship, Ellie Young's comments
To: wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hi all and happy August:)
I've been watching this discussion on Wikimania Scholarships, and I'm happy
that Ellie joined in the discussion: I think her reply was the most
valuable and well-referenced in the thread.
Being a first-time Wikimania scholarship participant - I was offered a
partial scholarship in 2011 but had to decline NOT because I wasn't
satisfied with the terms, but for serious personal reasons - I would like
to add a few comments to the discussion.
1) The Wikimania experience not only met my expecations, it exceeded them.
It was amazing to live the energy, the enthusiasm of the Wikimedia
community "live" for the first time instead of online. Finally meeting the
faces behind the usernames I had interacted with for years was magical. And
words cannot describe how I loved the place - Mexico City - all the new
Mexican and international friends I made both inside and outside the wiki
commuity, people I feel as if I've known for years... memories and
acquantances that will be treasured for life:)
2) That said, I have to agree with all those supporting newcomers to
Wikimania: this experience has added a new dimension to my relation with
the community, and even if I never attend another Wikimania, its impact
will last forever. So yes, I would be willing to "sacrifice" my chance at
another scholarship if I knew that in 2016 another equally eligible and
enthusiastic Wikimedian would have the opportunity to gain the Wikimania
experience like I did at Wikimania 2015.
3) New participants want to soak in as much Wikimania as they can: they
attend more sessions, interact with more people, attend all the receptions
and parties (which means MORE interaction, more acquaintances, more
prospects for collaboration on exciting transnational projects) and do not
have the attitude "been there, done that" that I discerned in a couple of
repeat scholarship recipients.
4) I agree that this doesn't mean repeat applications should be
discouraged: just that their applications should be STRINGENTLY reviewed.
For example: for me the most important session was IdeaLab, during which
the two wonderful ladies holding the session helped me shape an idea that
was going around in my mind for months into a proposal, which I will
hopefully develop into a grant. That was absolutely amazing and it wouldn't
have been possible if I weren't there. IF however I fail to develop the
proposal further, I see no reason why I should be entitled to eligibility
for a scholarship next year.
5) Finally, I would like someone to please provide a quick link to the
Scholarship online report section for 2015, as I am eager to write about my
experience.. I don't recall having received an e-mail pointing to the wiki
for this (I've only submitted the general attendee survey).
Thanks to Wikimania 2015 for an amazing experience, best wishes from
Kefalonia, Greece:)
Mina (User:Saintfevrier)
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> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 16:34:55 -0700
> From: Ellie Young <eyoung(a)wikimedia.org>
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> Cc: Sati Houston <shouston(a)wikimedia.org>
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> On behalf of the two of us here at WMF who work on the Scholarship Program
> (Ellie and Sati), we’d like to offer the following response to the various
> points raised in this thread:
>
> (1) To the point around repeat scholarship recipients: Given the concerns
> about scholarships being awarded to the same people year over year, for the
> 2015 Scholarship Program we included a two new questions in the
> application[1]. From these new questions, the Scholarship Committee could
> understand how an applicant's previous attendance had changed or improved
> their Wikimedia contribution, and how attending this year would do so
> again. To Stuart's previous point, the intention was to set the bar was
> higher for those who had attended Wikimania before on a WMF scholarship,
> but without setting an automatic or blanket penalty.
>
> As a data point, of the 2015 Scholarship recipients ~26% received a
> scholarship in 2014 from WMF[2]. Unfortunately, we don't have data readily
> available to do a year-over-year comparison for past Wikimainias.
>
> (2) and (3) To the point around enriching home communities / countries and
> selection criteria:"Enrichment" was a big focus on the revised 2015
> Scholarship application and selection criteria. In previous years, the
> application questions and selection criteria focused on an applicant's:
> contribution to the Wikimedia movement, contribution to other free
> knowledge/software movements, and interest in Wikimaina. Based on feedback
> from previous scholarship applicants, recipients, the Scholarship
> Committee, Wikimania organizers, and WMF staff, these questions and
> criteria were changed to focus on: relevant experience within the Wikimedia
> movement [3] as well as "Enrichment".
>
> From the Scholarships page[4], "Enrichment" means: "The ability to share
> experiences and information with a wider community indicates that the
> applicant, if awarded a scholarship, would be able to bring those
> experiences or lessons learned at Wikimania back home, thereby enriching
> their home wiki community or home country. Applicants are encouraged to
> write about or provide examples demonstrating this ability; a few examples
> could be on-wiki reports, personal blog posts, or talks/presentations given
> about what they learned from an event, conference, or discussion.
>
> To this end, as in 2014 we have required all scholarship recipients to
> create an on-wiki report[5]. The summarized outcomes from 2014 can be found
> here[5]. Once all 2015 scholarship reports have been submitted, another
> analysis and summary of outcomes will be posted here[2].
>
> [1] Question added into the 2015 application:
> Have you previously attended Wikimania on a WMF scholarship? YES/NO
> Note: there is already a separate question on "Have you attended Wikimania
> before? If so, in what year or years?"
> If YES, please use the space below to tell us about something great that
> happened as a result of attending Wikimania previously? What are your goals
> for attending Wikimania again?
> [2]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_scholars/2015_Outcomes
> <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_scholars/2015_Outcomes
> >
>
> [3]
> https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships#Relevant_experience
> <https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships#Relevant_experience
> >
>
> [4] https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships#Enrichment <
> https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships#Enrichment>
>
> [5]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_scholars/Proposed_2015…
> <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_scholars/Proposed_2015…
> >
>
> (4) To the point of why we do not offer partial scholarships anymore, the
> overhead processing to adminster this was high. We also noted that there
> were regular occurrances of people then declining the offer and partial
> scholarsips going unused was also high.
>
> If anyone would like to reach out to either one of us offlist to followup
> with questions, we can be contacted at:
>
> eyoung(a)wikimedia.org
> shouston(a)wikimedia.org
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ellie Young and Sati Houston
> Wikimedia Foundation Community Engagement
>
> On Jul 31, 2015, at 7:45 AM, Osmar Valdebenito <b1mbo.wikipedia(a)gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> 2015-07-31 9:16 GMT-03:00 Lane Rasberry <lane(a)bluerasberry.com <mailto:
>> lane(a)bluerasberry.com>>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Leave the fairness of the scholarship process aside. Regardless of its
>> fairness, the process is generating ill-will because of lack of
>> transparency and poor communication. The problem might be growing to
>> something beyond what volunteers can manage and perhaps paid staff support
>> from the communications department of the WMF would be a worthwhile
>> investment to protect community reputation considering the seriousness of
>> this, the problem's persistence, and the fact that a little more
>> communication would go a long way to resolving the negativity.
>>
>> Thanks Praveen for voicing concerns. They are worth addressing and what
>> you are saying is what a significant and large demographic also has been
>> believing for years. I first heard this in 2012. It is good that this year
>> for the first time the list of scholarship recipients was published and
>> shared openly. Regardless of whether the scholarship award process is fair
>> and adequate, it is definitely true that the rumor is circulating among
>> many countries, especially in the Global South, that some people are
>> getting scholarships repeatedly.
>>
>> Here are some of the complaints which I have repeatedly heard, and which
>> are critical to address for the sake of community health:
>> People who get scholarships somehow become better candidates for getting
>> more scholarships, when ideally, new people from a region should attend
>> Wikimania every time
>> As I mentioned, this is complex. Because the option would be to penalize
>> the applications of some people because they attended in the past, even if
>> they made great presentions or where very active in the organization, and I
>> don't really like that idea. People that received scholarships in the past
>> is because they have been very active Wikimedians and that usually doesn't
>> change year to year, so probably they will have great chances in following
>> Wikimanias.
>> In the Global South especially, people who get scholarships actively or
>> unconsciously suppress the development of their local Wikimedia community
>> so that they retain a leadership role and remain the most eligible people
>> to receive scholarships, grants, attention from Wikimedia community
>> leaders, and other privileges.
>> Being a member of the so-called Global South, I think this particularly
>> wrong (and almost offensive). This is not an issue that only applies to the
>> so-called Global South, but in general in our movement. Usually, leadership
>> in most of our organizations are very stable, with some exceptions.
>> Particularly because it is something that takes a lot of time and
>> dedication. Saying that scholarship recipients "actively or unconsciously
>> suppress development of local communities" is a huge accusation, especially
>> when most of them work a lot trying to disseminate Wikipedia and increase
>> the participation. And saying that it is "in the Global South especially",
>> even more.
>> There is a tremendous amount of ignorance and lack of cultural
>> insensitivity about the value of scholarships among WMF staff and Wikimedia
>> community members from richer countries. At this year's Wikimania, we
>> stayed in a city where ~75% of residents make USD 160 a month, (
>> http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/24/world/social-issues-world/mexic…
>> <
>> http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/24/world/social-issues-world/mexic…>)
>> and stayed in a hotel where the nightly charge per room was $320 or two
>> month's income by local standards. The amount of money thrown around during
>> Wikimania is shocking to many Wikipedians and this issue is never
>> discussed, so far as I know.
>> An international conference for ~1000 participants is expensive. We don't
>> know the details but probably the WMF and the local organization made
>> everything possible to have a very good Wikimania and saving resources as
>> much as possible. I think WM2015 was a success and I'm very happy that
>> scholarships recipients were able to be in a hotel next to the rest of the
>> conference, when in other opportunities scholarship recipients had a lot of
>> difficulties regarding accomodation. I think it was a step forward.
>> However, I never heard anyone complaining about how much was spent in
>> London, where prices are much higher than in Mexico City and where it was
>> much more difficult for people in developing countries to participate.
>> Mexico has a lot of difficulties (just like many other developed
>> countries have), but questioning the decision to host Wikimania there and
>> the decisions made by the local organization is also culturally insensitive.
>> Just in general and beyond scholarships - there needs to be more
>> discussion about how money is viewed differently in different places. This
>> applies to grants, staffing, community engagement, and many other things.
>> If complaints are not pouring in about this, it is only because people are
>> not comfortable speaking up. Diversity creates a lot of concerns and we are
>> a very diverse community.
>> yours,
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 7:49 AM, Nicholas Bashour <
>> nicholasbashour(a)gmail.com <mailto:nicholasbashour@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> I believe that what Praveen may be saying is that he thinks the value
>> that a repeat scholarship recipient can gain from coming back to wikimania
>> numerous times is outweighed by the value that someone who has never been
>> to wikimania but has nevertheless been a very involved wikimedian can gain
>> from attending. Therefore, given that there are limited resources,
>> scholarships should always go to the people who can gain the most from
>> receiving them, which Praveen may be arguing will always be someone who has
>> never been to wikimania versus someone who has. He's saying that despite
>> having many repeat scholarship recipients, there has not been any added
>> value on wiki to justify that, and therefore new recipients should be
>> actively prioritized over repeat ones. That's not to say whether or not
>> that's actually the case or that this was the point he was trying to
>> convey, but rather what I understood his argument to be.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Nicholas
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> Am 31.07.2015 um 07:39 schrieb Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com
>> <mailto:nkansahrexford@gmail.com>>:
>>
>> I just want to know why some users were able to achieve scholarship again
>>> and again while regular Wikimedians being excluded.
>>>
>>> And that is EXACTLY what Stuart explained. I understood, unless you
>>> didn't!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Friday 31 July 2015 04:01 PM, Stuart Prior wrote:
>>>
>>>> Praveen,
>>>>
>>>> I was chair of the Scholarship Committee for this year.
>>>>
>>>> It's unfortunate that you didn't get a scholarship, however there were
>>>> many high quality applications and sometimes the difference between success
>>>> and failure is very small, and I feel genuinely bad for any Wikimedian with
>>>> a good application that didn't make it, but it's very competitive.
>>>>
>>>> We do take into account previous scholarship awards, and focus on
>>>> making sure new people get a chance. But consistently good applications and
>>>> excellent work can warrant repeat scholarship awards despite this.
>>>>
>>>> In some cases where people have been granted Scholarships previously
>>>> but have been unable to attend the conference due to visa issues we have
>>>> considered that when receiving their applications for the current year.
>>>>
>>>> I won't comment on any individual's scholarship, but "regular
>>>> Wikimedians" certainly make up the bulk of the scholars. Edit count is not
>>>> the only factor, but it still is a significant (and clearly verifiable)
>>>> factor when looking at someone's application.
>>>>
>>>> However, we looked for organisers too. Some of our community are better
>>>> facilitators and community builders than they are editors, and running
>>>> events, training and building partnerships are things that were marked
>>>> favourably.
>>>>
>>>> Moreover, two identical applicants can make wildly differing
>>>> applications. We look for those that comprehensively demonstrate their
>>>> contributions and qualify their statements.
>>>>
>>>> Please apply again next year. You have just as much opportunity as
>>>> anyone else.
>>>>
>>>> Hope this helps.
>>>>
>>>> Best
>>>>
>>>> Stuart Prior
>>>> User:Battleofalma
>>>>
>>>> On 31 July 2015 at 09:16, Dariusz Jemielniak <darekj(a)alk.edu.pl <>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> Hi Praveen,
>>>>
>>>> I've been a steward, as well as the chair of the FDC for three years,
>>>> so you may assume I've been somewhat active in Wikimedia movement. I did
>>>> not receive a global scholarship neither (although I did eventually go, as
>>>> I got elected to the Board of Trustees).
>>>>
>>>> I think it is clearly an assumption of bad faith to say that there is a
>>>> bias in scholarship committee. The criteria are explicit, and obviously
>>>> with limited resources a large number of excellent candidates, even with
>>>> accepted presentations, will not make it.
>>>>
>>>> I would suggest you focus on Wikimedia activity, prepare a great
>>>> presentation for the next year as well as a compelling application, and try
>>>> again.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> DJ "pundit"
>>>>
>>>> 31 lip 2015 10:07 "praveenp" <me.praveen(a)gmail.com <>> napisał(a):
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Please don't derail the actual topic of the thread. I really didnt
>>>> assume such an interpretation from quoting his words. Whenever I asked
>>>> about the issue to anybody, I generally got such a reply, which I want to
>>>> avoid here.
>>>>
>>>> If it is need to start a new thread, I will do that. :-)
>>>>
>>>> But please tell me why some people regularly get scholarships atleast
>>>> since 2008, active (in Wikimedia projects / outreach programms) users never
>>>> get a chance to share their experience and problems at Wikimania.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Praveen. P
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Friday 31 July 2015 12:40 PM, WereSpielChequers wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Praveen,
>>>>>
>>>>> Whether there was anything personal or confidential in Gerard's
>>>>> private emails to you is for him to say not for you to decide.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>>
>>>>> Jonathan
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 31 Jul 2015, at 05:59, praveenp <me.praveen(a)gmail.com <>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Osmar Valdebenito,
>>>>>> No offense was intended :-(. For prominent communities that may be
>>>>>> true, but could you check list of users who got scholarship from Malayalam
>>>>>> community.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Amir Ladsgroup,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1) As you can see there is nothing confidential or personal in
>>>>>> Gerards reply. He just gave a summary of "known" practices.
>>>>>> 2) Users are not asking for trophies. They also want to participate
>>>>>> Wikimania and share and get the experience.
>>>>>> 3) Wikimedia projects are community processes. I simply don't
>>>>>> understand how granting scholarship to same persons again and again for
>>>>>> five or six years help that process. I also dont understand that
>>>>>> communication and sharing of multiple viewpoints, ideas and practices is
>>>>>> possible in the above scenario.
>>>>>> 4) Yes; If clicking tick marks in translatewiki on some 500 string in
>>>>>> 5 minutes before applying for scholarship (as reviewing the translation) is
>>>>>> a prominent contribution.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In the beginning every body treated equal, we have multiple
>>>>>> participants (with understandable reasons) for Wikimania. It started to
>>>>>> shrink later and now people plainly believe granting scholarship is an act
>>>>>> of favoritism. I also want to prove I am wrong.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Praveen. P
>>>>>> User:Praveenp
>>>>>>
>>>>>> PS: Mail striped because mailman held my previous reply claiming "
>>>>>> Message body is too big:"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Friday 31 July 2015 05:03 AM, Amir Ladsgroup wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There are several issues I want to comment:
>>>>>>> 1-First of all. Do you have permission from Gerard to publish your
>>>>>>> conversation? Maybe there is something confidential in it, Did you care to
>>>>>>> check?
>>>>>>> 2- Scholarship is not award or trophy, bear that in mind.
>>>>>>> 3- People are expected to come here and learn, communicate, etc.
>>>>>>> that's why a same person gets scholarship,
>>>>>>> 4- No one's wife got scholarship because of being wife of someone.
>>>>>>> They probably are prominent contributors too.
>>>>>>> 5- Check my first question and answer that. (Emphasizing)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Best
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 12:05 AM Osmar Valdebenito <
>>>>>>> b1mbo.wikipedia(a)gmail.com <>> wrote:
>>>>>>> Sorry, but when I read "No regular Wikimedian get any scholarship",
>>>>>>> I stopped reading.
>>>>>>> It is not only a lie, but also very unfair to all the extremely
>>>>>>> great Wikimedians that attended and made great contributions in Wikimania,
>>>>>>> and also the volunteers that have helped now and in the past reviewing and
>>>>>>> evaluated thousand of applications in the Scholarship Committee.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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Date: Friday, July 31, 2015
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Hi Enock,
Thanks for confirming what you have experienced. One more question: which
browser did you use? Note that some proxi browsers like Opera sometimes
don't zero-rated Wikipedia. In case you have used Opera, please try another
browser like Chrome, Safari, etc.
GH Wikimedians: As Enock noted, your help on testing the service will be
appreciated. If you can, please test Wikipedia Zero on m.wikipedia.org and
let us know if you see the "Free Wikipedia" banner and/or you are being
charged.
Thanks again,
Adele
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> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 13:02:23 -0700
> From: Adele Vrana <avrana(a)wikimedia.org>
> To: Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org>
> Cc: Dan Foy <dfoy(a)wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Ghana User Group
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> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-GH] Wikipedia Zero no longer works on pc and
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> Thanks, Asaf for sending this thread directly to us.
>
> Hi Enock,
>
> Thank you for flagging the issues described below. For future reference,
> feel free to add me directly when you need my attention and/or reply.
> As far as I understand, you - Enock - used WP through MTN and was charged.
> On top of that, no free WP banners were displayed both on the desktop
> version and mobile version. Is that correct? If that is the case, we will
> have to investigate with MTN.
> Please note that we don't show "Free Wikipedia" banners on the desktop
> version as part of the Wikipedia Zero program. Only the mobile site
> displays banners so it's expected that you won't see the WP Zero banner
> when using WP's desktop version.
> Please confirm if you were using m.wikipedia.org (mobile site) when the
> banners flashed and didn't display correctly. That is not an expected
> behavior and if confirmed, we will follow up internally and also with MTN.
>
> Dan Foy, our technical partner manager, is on vacation this week. We will
> have to wait for him to come back to the office next week to properly
> follow up on this.
>
> Enock - I will be awaiting for your reply on the questions above. It will
> be really helpful to better understand your experience.
>
> Rexford and others - If you would like to volunteer to test the service,
> please make sure you are using the mobile version of Wikipedia (
> m.wikipedia.org). Please pay special attention to the banner behavior and
> data charges.
>
> Best,
> Adele
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 4:50 AM, Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
> > I am explicitly CCing Adele and Dan to ensure they see this. I'm afraid
> I
> > don't have enough information to help, myself.
> >
> > A.
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 2:24 AM, Nkansah Rexford <
> nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com
> > > wrote:
> >
> >> Thus, I understand you as, when (kindly confirm if below conditions are
> >> so)
> >>
> >> - you opened the Desktop Version on the PC, no banner was shown
> >> - you opened the Mobile Version on PC, the banner 'flashed'. Nothing
> >> banner-ish showed afterwards
> >> - you opened the Mobile Version on Mobile, no banner was shown
> >>
> >> Its good you've brought this up. I'm sure Adele is on this list, plus if
> >> that's the case, then we'll kindly ask Adele to look into that for us.
> >>
> >> thanks
> >>
> >> On Tuesday, July 14, 2015, Enock Seth Nyamador <kwadzo459(a)gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> When I tried the mobile version of Wikipedia on PC. The banner just
> >>> flashed.
> >>>
> >>> - Enock
> >>> UMaT, Tarkwa
> >>> enockseth.github.io
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Nkansah Rexford <
> >>> nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Did you see the Wikipedia Zero banner or anything of that sort,
> >>>> indicating you're browsing for free in your browser?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Tuesday, July 14, 2015, Enock Seth Nyamador <kwadzo459(a)gmail.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Greetings,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Is been a long time I tried using Wikipedia Zero [1] from MTN Ghana
> on
> >>>>> PC. I remember I started using WP Zero before it was announced
> officially;
> >>>>> that during the piloting.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Yesterday, I tried to access Wikipedia from MTN thinking Zero is
> still
> >>>>> in control. By the time I realized my 60 GHp was no where to be
> found after
> >>>>> visiting just two pages.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I don't know if the problem is from me or MTN. If you're using MTN
> >>>>> I'll plead with you to try on your PC and Smartphones so we can know
> what
> >>>>> is actually going on.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Best,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero
> >>>>>
> >>>>> - Enock
> >>>>> UMaT, Tarkwa
> >>>>> enockseth.github.io
> >>>>>
> >>>>
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Those familiar with IFTTT, I just found some recipes
<https://ifttt.com/recipes?channel=wikipedia> that will make your
Wikipedian life nicer.
Those not familiar, IFTTT is service that allows you to automate tasks on
the internet so you don't have to do them yourself repetitively.
*Regards, *
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http://notconfusing.com/wikimania2015/
Did you know that the ratio of female biographies to males on Wikipedia in the Ghana category is 6.5% ?
-Masssly
Sent from Samsung Mobile.
I don't know what you guys might think are the causes but two reasons that suddenly come to mind are that
1. Males are more likely to write about men, just as females would women; there are more male editors in Ghana at the moment.
2. All editors are more likely to write about stuff they can find references to; are there not available references to Ghanaian female biographies on the Internet?
-Masssly
Sent from Samsung Mobile.
<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Enock Seth Nyamador <kwadzo459(a)gmail.com> </div><div>Date:20/07/2015 6:14 AM (GMT+00:00) </div><div>To: Wikimedia Ghana User Group <wikimedia-gh(a)lists.wikimedia.org> </div><div>Cc: </div><div>Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-GH] Wikimedia Gender disparity in Ghana </div><div>
</div>Hi Massly,
Am sure It might even be lower than that :).
Best,
- Enock
UMaT, Tarkwa
enockseth.github.io
On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Masssly <masssly(a)ymail.com> wrote:
http://notconfusing.com/wikimania2015/
Did you know that the ratio of female biographies to males on Wikipedia in the Ghana category is 6.5% ?
-Masssly
Sent from Samsung Mobile.
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