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Thomas Mensah - Africa's Albert Einstein?
by Nkansah Rexford 04 Jan '15

04 Jan '15

Myself and Oral recently came across Thomas Mensah, a Kumasi-born-Ghanaian who, Oral and I choose to describe as "Africa's Albert Einstein", if not "Archimedes and Albert Combined!". I'll invite you read his article (and help improve) on Wikipedia, however before you do, I'll say he's "all over the place" in the world. I can't describe him better. Ghanani ba oooh! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mensah His article happens to be how Oral and I wanted to open 2015 with. -- +Rexford <http://google.com/+Nkansahrexford> | Africa Center <http://africacenter.net> | WiR <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence> | WikiAfrica <http://wikiafrica.net> | User:Nkansahrexford <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nkansahrexford>

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Wishes
by Sandister Tei 03 Jan '15

03 Jan '15

Happy new year to everyone. xo

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Happy Public Domain Day!
by Enock Seth Nyamador 02 Jan '15

02 Jan '15

FYI Best, ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Romaine Wiki <romaine.wiki(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2015 17:57:50 +0100 Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Happy Public Domain Day! To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, "Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public]" <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org> This sounds to me as something for a blog post! On January 1 we celebrate Public Domain Day [1] as many works of authors who died 70+ years ago now enter the public domain and can be used freely. Let us be aware: copyright is temporary. It only lasts during the authors lifetime and 70 years afterwards (in most countries). During those years it is limiting Wikipedia and her sister projects in showing works of art, literature, public art and buildings in countries without freedom of panorama [2], and more in the articles. But now a new batch is freed from copyrights! An overview of images and texts that are restored or added to the Wikimedia Commons, are collected on: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Romaine/Public_Domain_Day/2015 Many of these files still need a place in articles. You can help! You can also help by uploading new files of subjects that are freed of copyrights. You can also help by tagging all requests for deletion pages with the category when the file can be restored, which is/was deleted. [3] As I follow the log of restored files this week, more images and texts will follow. If still files or texts are missing in the list, let me know or add them yourselves. A very happy Public Domain Day! Romaine [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Domain_Day [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_panorama [3] - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Undeletion_requests -- - Enock twitter: @Enock4seth enockseth.blogspot.com | [[User:Enock4seth]]

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GLAM newsletter on Cape Town by WiR
by Amjad Abdullah 01 Jan '15

01 Jan '15

Looks like interesting stuff to consider. Can you give me a link to the pictures Mr. Rexford?

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GLAM newsletter on Cape Town by WiR
by Nkansah Rexford 01 Jan '15

01 Jan '15

Hello all, This year, I spent majority of my months in Cape Town as a Wikipedian in Residence for the arts and cultural organization that runs the WikiAfrica Project, the Africa Centre. [1] Its was great working with the team at Africa Centre, and with Isla Haddow-Flood, my supervisor. See an update of the work that was accomplished via the WikiAfrica Project. https://outreach.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/November_2014/Content… See this short video about the museum we took the highest number of pictures from. Iziko Museum: http://youtu.be/cuxIS-CjBvk We hope more content will be generated from Africa onto Wikipedia for use in education and research in 2015. Happy holidays and enjoy the next year. [1] http://africacentre.net/ rexford | google.com/+Nkansahrexford

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Senior High School Students Mentoring event on December 29 in Accra
by Ato Ulzen-Appiah 30 Dec '14

30 Dec '14

Hello Wikimedians, this is a great opportunity for high school students in Ghana. And for you if you want to mentor. Ahaspora Young Professions Ghana <https://www.facebook.com/ahaspora?fref=ts> in collaboration with GhanaThink Foundation’s Junior Camp Ghana <https://www.facebook.com/JuniorCampGhana?ref=hl> Program presents Junior Camp Ahaspora on 29th December 2014 at the University of Ghana, Legon. Junior Camp Ahaspora just like all Junior Camp related activities is a career guidance and counseling program for Senior High School students in Ghana- where Senior High School students are connected to industry players from various fields. The unique thing about this event is that mentees get paired up with mentors for a year. This is the second edition of the mentoring event with Ahaspora. Patrick Awuah, Founder of Ashesi University, will be the keynote speaker. Various confirmed mentors for the event are M.anifest, E.A Gamor (YouTube & Mpwr Show), Freda Obeng (Ahaspora), Christabel Dadzie (Ahaspora), Rita Kusi (Kusi Consulting), Jemila Abdulai (Circumspecte), Ato Ulzen Appiah (GhanaThink Foundation), etc. If you are interested in joining our pool of mentors, please sign up via bit.ly/JcAhasporamentors. Kindly share this event with all Senior High School students within your circles, they must sign up to attend as mentees via bit.ly/JcAhasporamentees. The deadline is this Thursday. This will be the 20th Junior Camp event so far. Follow the hashtag #JcAhaspora, Ahaspora & Junior Camp Ghana on social media for more updates. -- ____________________________ *Less talk, more action. Morevim to that! :-)* Blog: Mightyafrican.blogspot.com Follow me on Twitter ---> @abocco Learn about GhanaThink & its programs here <http://www.ghanathink.org/content/ghanathink-foundation-profile>.

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Wikimania 2014 interview series part two
by Nkansah Rexford 21 Dec '14

21 Dec '14

Good morning, Please see the part Two of the Wikimania interview series involving Benoit Rochon from Canada, Emna Mizouni from Tunisia, and Michael Phoya from Malawi. Special thanks to them for sharing their stories with us. Wikimania 2014 Interview - Part Two: https <http://youtu.be/Fo-3KqbOEgU>:// <http://youtu.be/Fo-3KqbOEgU>youtu.be <http://youtu.be/Fo-3KqbOEgU>/HP- <http://youtu.be/Fo-3KqbOEgU>wQwJir8U <http://youtu.be/Fo-3KqbOEgU> Subtitles are added, please enable captions on your YouTube video to see them. Thanks. rexford | google.com/+Nkansahrexford

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Fwd: Wikimania 2014 interview series
by Nkansah Rexford 20 Dec '14

20 Dec '14

The video interviews will be rolling our gradually. rexford | google.com/+Nkansahrexford ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Nkansah Rexford" <nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com> Date: Dec 20, 2014 7:57 AM Subject: Wikimania 2014 interview series To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" < wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: "Kavya Manohar" <sakhi.kavya(a)gmail.com>, "Yassine Tounsi" < yassine01tounsi(a)gmail.com>, "Johnson Oluata" <joluata(a)yahoo.com> Good morning, Please see the part one of the Wikimania interview series involving Kavya Manohar from India, Yassine Tounsi from Tunisia and Johnson Oluata from Nigeria. Special thanks to them for sharing their stories with us. Wikimania 2014 Interview - Part One: http://youtu.be/Fo-3KqbOEgU Subtitles are added, please enable captions on your YouTube video to see them. Part Two will be shared soon. Waiting for Benoit Rochon of Wikimedia Canada's consent. Thanks. rexford | google.com/+Nkansahrexford

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Re: [Wikimedia-GH] Wikipedia Zero
by masssly 19 Dec '14

19 Dec '14

Wow this is amazing! -Masssly Sent from Samsung Mobile <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com> </div><div>Date:18/12/2014 20:12 (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] Wikipedia Zero </div><div> </div>Wikipedia Zero is working in Ghana via MTN, but not officially launched yet. Enjoy cruising. On Thursday, December 18, 2014, masssly <masssly(a)ymail.com> wrote: Has Wikipedia Zero hit Ghana? My app tells me so and I'm actually cruising for free. Can someone else confirm this or maybe I'm just being lucky! -Masssly Sent from Samsung Mobile -- +Rexford | Africa Center | WiR | WikiAfrica | User:Nkansahrexford

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Wikipedia Zero
by masssly 19 Dec '14

19 Dec '14

Has Wikipedia Zero hit Ghana? My app tells me so and I'm actually cruising for free. Can someone else confirm this or maybe I'm just being lucky! -Masssly Sent from Samsung Mobile

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