Edit Ghana (Training Session) - Wikimedia-GH

9 Jan 2015

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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*Felix Nartey | DSE CAL Bank Ltd. | Co-manager GBG TEMA
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