A gentle reminder of tomorrow's event.
Kindly endeavor to be there!!
Cheers,
On Jan 9, 2015 4:57 PM, "Felix Nartey" <flixtey(a)gmail.com
<mailto:flixtey@gmail.com>> wrote:
Happy New Year!!
Hope we all enjoyed the holidays and are ready kick start the year
with some rejuvenation. It is my pleasure to announce to you all
the Wikipedia Zero Project
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwuCUZiFHDV_Sk54ZnpqbHczNHdJX1ZxWmRTX2FZb2U1ay1N/view?usp=sharing>
is
now live and you can all benefit from this now. You can now browse
Wikipedia and other sister projects for free via MTN, see press
release here
<http://www.myjoyonline.com/business/2014/December-22nd/mtn-ghana-empowers-customers-with-free-access-to-wikipedia.php>.
The best part of it is we (editors) can also edit contribute to
Wikipedia for free.
I am extremely excited to inform you that for a period of 5
continuous weeks, we will be hosting training sessions for
individuals who wish to contribute to Wikipedia and to project the
image of Ghana while contributing to the sum of all human
knowledge through rich contents on the platform. These will be
held as part of a project titled Edit Ghana
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Wikimedia_Ghana_Usergroup/Edit_Ghana>
which
focuses on retaining editors for the cause of contributing
contents from our part of the world, to serve as a useful resource
for Ghanians and to further compliment opportunities such as the
Wikipedia Zero Project
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwuCUZiFHDV_Sk54ZnpqbHczNHdJX1ZxWmRTX2FZb2U1ay1N/view?usp=sharing>.
Just as posted on here earlier the Edit Ghana
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Wikimedia_Ghana_Usergroup/Edit_Ghana>
project has been approved to run the phase 2 which is pilot for
the real deal, phase 3. We are looking at creating a community of
active and committed editors who will help us champion our goal to
achieve this worthy cause. Listed below are the dates to take note
and their corresponding topics to be treated.
* *5 pillars of Wikipedia - /17th
January, 2015/*
* *Syntax hands on - /24th January,
2015/*
* *Citation and referencing hands on - /31st January, 2015/*
* *Introduction to other sister projects - /7th February,
2015/*
* *Edit-a-thon - /14th
*/February/*, 2015/*
* *Photowalk event - /21st
*/February/*, 2015/*
*/Venue is /Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in
ICT<http://www.aiti-kace.com.gh/> /and time is/ 2:00 - 5:00 pm
/each day./*
Come join us contribute to the sum of all human knowledge, come
lets tell our story and promote our heritage!!
Cheers
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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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