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Bridging the gender gap!
by Felix Nartey 19 Mar '15

19 Mar '15

Hi, Hope this finds you all in perfect health. I wish to share an idea <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grants:IdeaLab/Wiki_G%C3%A9ner…> i have been working on as part of the Inspire Grants Campaign. I employ you all to visit the idea page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grants:IdeaLab/Wiki_G%C3%A9ner…>, read through, share your ideas to improve this and help bridge the gap. Click here to view page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grants:IdeaLab/Wiki_G%C3%A9ner…> . Cheers! -- *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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Woyome.
by Raphael Berchie 18 Mar '15

18 Mar '15

Hello everyone please help me expand Woyome <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Agbesi_Woyome>'s article. *Regards* *Raphael Berchie* Sales Officer@ Bio-Plastics <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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Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia REST content API is now available in beta
by Nkansah Rexford 11 Mar '15

11 Mar '15

Wikimedia releases Beta REST API. FYI, developers. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Gabriel Wicke* <gwicke(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 Subject: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia REST content API is now available in beta To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, wikitech-ambassdors(a)lists.wikimedia.org, Development and Operations Engineers <engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org Hello all, I am happy to announce the beta release of the Wikimedia REST Content API at https://rest.wikimedia.org/ Each domain has its own API documentation, which is auto-generated from Swagger API specs. For example, here is the link for the English Wikipedia: https://rest.wikimedia.org/en.wikipedia.org/v1/?doc At present, this API provides convenient and low-latency access to article HTML, page metadata and content conversions between HTML and wikitext. After extensive testing we are confident that these endpoints are ready for production use, but have marked them as 'unstable' until we have also validated this with production users. You can start writing applications that depend on it now, if you aren't afraid of possible minor changes before transitioning to 'stable' status. For the definition of the terms 'stable' and 'unstable' see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API_versioning . While general and not specific to VisualEditor, the selection of endpoints reflects this release's focus on speeding up VisualEditor. By storing private Parsoid round-trip information separately, we were able to reduce the HTML size by about 40%. This in turn reduces network transfer and processing times, which will make loading and saving with VisualEditor faster. We are also switching from a cache to actual storage, which will eliminate slow VisualEditor loads caused by cache misses. Other users of Parsoid HTML like Flow, HTML dumps, the OCG PDF renderer or Content translation will benefit similarly. But, we are not done yet. In the medium term, we plan to further reduce the HTML size by separating out all read-write metadata. This should allow us to use Parsoid HTML with its semantic markup <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/MediaWiki_DOM_spec> directly for both views and editing without increasing the HTML size over the current output. Combined with performance work in VisualEditor, this has the potential to make switching to visual editing instantaneous and free of any scrolling. We are also investigating a sub-page-level edit API for micro-contributions and very fast VisualEditor saves. HTML saves don't necessarily have to wait for the page to re-render from wikitext, which means that we can potentially make them faster than wikitext saves. For this to work we'll need to minimize network transfer and processing time on both client and server. More generally, this API is intended to be the beginning of a multi-purpose content API. Its implementation (RESTBase <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RESTBase>) is driven by a declarative Swagger API specification, which helps to make it straightforward to extend the API with new entry points. The same API spec is also used to auto-generate the aforementioned sandbox environment, complete with handy "try it" buttons. So, please give it a try and let us know what you think! This API is currently unmetered; we recommend that users not perform more than 200 requests per second and may implement limitations if necessary. I also want to use this opportunity to thank all contributors who made this possible: - Marko Obrovac, Eric Evans, James Douglas and Hardik Juneja on the Services team worked hard to build RESTBase, and to make it as extensible and clean as it is now. - Filippo Giunchedi, Alex Kosiaris, Andrew Otto, Faidon Liambotis, Rob Halsell and Mark Bergsma helped to procure and set up the Cassandra storage cluster backing this API. - The Parsoid team with Subbu Sastry, Arlo Breault, C. Scott Ananian and Marc Ordinas i Llopis is solving the extremely difficult task of converting between wikitext and HTML, and built a new API that lets us retrieve and pass in metadata separately. - On the MediaWiki core team, Brad Jorsch quickly created a minimal authorization API that will let us support private wikis, and Aaron Schulz, Alex Monk and Ori Livneh built and extended the VirtualRestService that lets VisualEditor and MediaWiki in general easily access external services. We welcome your feedback here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:RESTBase - and in Phabricator < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?projects=RESTBase&… :> . Sincerely -- Gabriel Wicke Principal Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- +Rexford <http://google.com/+Nkansahrexford> | khophi.co

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement: WMF to file suit against the NSA
by Enock Seth Nyamador 10 Mar '15

10 Mar '15

FYI - Enock twitter: @Enock4seth enockseth.blogspot.com | [[User:Enock4seth]] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michelle Paulson <mpaulson(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 7:53 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement: WMF to file suit against the NSA To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi All, I'm writing to let you know that today the Wikimedia Foundation[1] is filing suit against the National Security Agency <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency>, the Department of Justice <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice>, and the U.S. Attorney General <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney_General>[2] in order to challenge certain mass surveillance practices carried out by the U.S. government. We believe these practices are impinging the freedom to learn, inquire, and explore on Wikimedia sites. Since the 2013 mass surveillance disclosures, we've heard concerns from the community about privacy on Wikipedia. This lawsuit is a step towards addressing the community's justified concerns. We believe that the surveillance methods being employed by the NSA under the authority of the FISA Amendments Act < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act_of_1978… > negatively impact our users' ability and willingness to participate in our projects. Today, we fight back. An op-ed < http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/opinion/stop-spying-on-wikipedia-users.ht… > by Lila and Jimmy about the lawsuit, and Wikimedia's stance on government surveillance, appeared in The New York Times this morning. Additionally, we just published a blog post <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/10/wikimedia-v-nsa/> with more information about the suit. (The post will also up on Meta for translation). Best, Michelle Paulson Senior Legal Counsel Wikimedia Foundation mpaulson(a)wikimedia.org [1] We are being represented by the American Civil Liberties Union <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union> (ACLU). Other plaintiffs include The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers <http://www.nacdl.org/>, Human Rights Watch <http://www.hrw.org/>, Amnesty International USA <http://www.amnestyusa.org/>, Pen American Center <https://www.pen.org/>, Global Fund for Women <http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/>, The Nation Magazine <http://www.thenation.com/>, The Rutherford Institute <https://www.rutherford.org/>, and Washington Office on Latin America <http://www.wola.org/>. [2] Other named defendants include: Michael Rogers <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_S._Rogers>, in his official capacity as Director of the National Security Agency <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_the_National_Security_Agency> and Chief of the Central Security Service; Office of the Director of National Intelligence <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_National_Intelligence>; James Clapper <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_R._Clapper>, in his official capacity as Director of National Intelligence; and Eric Holder <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Holder>, in his official capacity as Attorney General <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney_General> of the United States. *NOTICE: This message may be confidential or legally privileged. If you have received it by accident, please delete it and let us know about the mistake. As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation and for legal/ethical reasons, I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity. For more on what this means, please see our legal disclaimer <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer>.* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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Re: [Wikimedia-GH] I need a Community Manager for the ERP
by ayisi.bright＠yahoo.com 10 Mar '15

10 Mar '15

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I need a Community Manager for the ERP
by Sandister Tei 10 Mar '15

10 Mar '15

Hello, Thank you for the sign ups and recommendations. At the moment the numbers have grown at the ERP. I need a community manager to assist me manage the ERPers. Phone calls and internet fee compensation will be provided. Regards, Sandister Tei Co founder - Wikimedia Ghana User Group / Lead - Wikipedia Editor Retention Program / Al Jazeera M. +233 204266290 Twi. @SandisterTei <https://twitter.com/SandisterTei> W. sandistertei.com Follow @WikipediaERP <https://twitter.com/WikipediaERP> Download AJ+ app ajplus.net

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Fwd: {GDG Ghana} "Think you got what it takes to solve Accra's Energy Efficiency issues?
by Enock Seth Nyamador 10 Mar '15

10 Mar '15

For thos in or closer to Accra. - Enock twitter: @Enock4seth enockseth.blogspot.com | [[User:Enock4seth]] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Awotwi <johnawotwi(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 10:13 PM Subject: {GDG Ghana} "Think you got what it takes to solve Accra's Energy Efficiency issues? To: ghana-gtug(a)googlegroups.com I hope this finds you well. I want to take this opportunity to invite you to *Negawatt Weekend* on* March 14th-15th* at iSpace. To provide you with some context, Negawatt Weekend is part of the Negawatt Challenge - a global competition to empower communities to *innovate around local energy issues.* Negawatt Weekend is a *2 day idea-thon!* Participants will form teams around 6 sub themes - all within the scope of energy efficiency in Accra. Teams will formulate workable ideas, which will be pitched in front of a jury. The teams with the most viable ideas will advance to a 3-week 'bootcamp', with training, mentorship and access to office space for the continued development of their solutions. This is a great opportunity to *network, learn, create, innovate, solve and ignite change* in our communities. So join us! *When:* Saturday March 14th & Sunday March 15th, 2014 *Time:* 9am-6pm both days *Where:* iSpace Please *RSVP *here to reserve your spot: https://www.eventbrite. com/e/negawatt-weekend-accra-tickets-16019747496 I hope you have a wonderful long weekend ahead, and we look forward to seeing you next weekend!*"* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GDG Ghana" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ghana-gtug+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

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Fwd: [Wikimedia ZA] "Wikipedia Primary School" is up and running!
by Enock Seth Nyamador 08 Mar '15

08 Mar '15

"Wikipedia Primary School" in South Africa Best, -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Wikimedia ZA] "Wikipedia Primary School" is up and running! Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2015 11:03:17 +0100 From: Litrenta Erica <erica.litrenta(a)supsi.ch> To: wikimediaza(a)lists.wikimedia.org (crosspost) Hi all, just in case you had missed the announcements elsewhere, this research project [1] focuses on the South Africa primary school curriculum: the involved teams have selected a list of 100+ relevant articles which will undergo review (or creation) by Wikipedians, scholars/experts, or journals. We thought that involving the Wikipedia community was the obvious first step in the process, which is going to last for the next couple of years, so please take a look now at the project page on en.wiki [2] to learn how to join our efforts. The next deadline for article review is *March 15*! User:Alfhild-anthro already reviewed the article about San healing practices; would you do the same for any of the following pages? Sexism Domestic violence Gender stereotypes Transport in South Africa Bicycle Khoikhoi Republic of South Africa Coal in South Africa Water supply and sanitation in South Africa Water privatization in South Africa Healthcare in South Africa Nelson Mandela Apartheid Oliver Tambo Or maybe you'd like to take a look at the expert reviews posted at [3] or [4] and use them as a guide to improve the related articles? Thanks a lot for what you will do, Elitre (WPS) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Elitre_(WPS) [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Primary_School_SSAJRP_pr… [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_South_Africa/Wikipedia_… [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mapungubwe_Museum [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:San_rock_art _______________________________________________ WikimediaZA mailing list WikimediaZA(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza

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Re: [Wikimedia-GH] [African Wikimedians] rocky dawuni
by Nkansah Rexford 08 Mar '15

08 Mar '15

Looking at the rate, I believe its an attack directed at me personally. So I'm taking them all! I don't even remember the edit I did to that article! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Nkansahrexford#Copyright_problem:_H… Also from an IP address. On Friday, March 6, 2015, rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Sure, if you could restore it, at least in my or Rex personal namespace... > On Mar 6, 2015 7:51 PM, "Florence Devouard" <anthere(a)anthere.org > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','anthere(a)anthere.org');>> wrote: > >> Le 06/03/15 19:41, Florence Devouard a écrit : >> >>> Le 06/03/15 19:09, rupert THURNER a écrit : >>> >>>> >>>> Yes please do send this list and try to improve them, and then tell me >>>> how pleasant this work was. >>>> >>>> Contrary, for the rocky dawuni article I d be interested as well where >>>> the copyright infringement was. I do not like that without admin permission >>>> it is not possible to look this up... >>>> >>>> Rupert >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Also of interest in the conversation: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/ >> index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/ >> Incidents&diff=prev&oldid=650110340#Copyvio_-_removal_ >> of_tags_by_Spearmind >> >> >> Otherwise... with a quick study of what is going on about the deletion >> spree, it seems that... >> * in all articles, chunks are indeed copyvios. The chunks are smaller or >> bigger depending on each case. >> * in many cases, the article is blanked in its entirety, then deleted. >> >> Looks like it is a bit overkill to me. I see not why at least a stub >> could be kept. >> >> Ant >> >> _______________________________________________ >> African-Wikimedians mailing list >> African-Wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','African-Wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org');> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >> > -- +Rexford <http://google.com/+Nkansahrexford> | khophi.co <http://khophi.co/about>

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Re: [Wikimedia-GH] Fwd: 24.130.172.5 left you a message on Wikipedia
by masssly 07 Mar '15

07 Mar '15

Just relax it's no big deal. The check users are usually quit reasonable than admins. If there's no evidence of violations the images are going nowhere. BR -Masssly Sent from Samsung Mobile <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com> </div><div>Date:07/03/2015 20:49 (GMT+00:00) </div><div>To: Wikimedia-gh <Wikimedia-gh(a)lists.wikimedia.org> </div><div>Cc: Mailing list for African Wikimedians <african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org> </div><div>Subject: [Wikimedia-GH] Fwd: 24.130.172.5 left you a message on Wikipedia </div><div> </div> Now reported for copyvios. I'm now before The Hague of Wikipedia. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Wikipedia <no-reply-notifications(a)wikipedia.org> Date: Sat, Mar 7, 2015, 19:36 Subject: 24.130.172.5 left you a message on Wikipedia To: Nkansahrexford <nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com> 24.130.172.5 left a message on your talk page in "CCI Notice". Hello, Nkansahrexford. This message is being sent to inform you that a request for a contributor copyright investigation has been filed at Contrib... View message View changes To control which emails we send you, check your preferences. Wikimedia Foundation, 149 New Montgomery St., 3rd Fl., San Francisco, CA 94105, USA

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