On Jan 9, 2015 4:57 PM, "Felix Nartey" <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 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. 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 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.

Just as posted on here earlier the 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 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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